Personal Assistant - 6 month fixed term contract
Personal Assistant - 6 month fixed term contract
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Job Description
About the role:
We have a great opportunity for a Personal Assistant to join our Housing Development and Regeneration team within the Real Estate Group as a Personal Assistant on a 6-month fixed-term contract.
In this role youll play a key part in supporting fee earners by delivering high-quality secretarial and administrative assistance that enables seamless legal service delivery to clients. Youll be actively involved in managing and coordinating the day-to-day workload of your fee earners taking a proactive approach to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Responsible for delegating tasks to other support services including document production file management and scanning/copying. Youll also take the initiative to understand client needs in depth ensuring a consistently high standard of service for both fee earners and clients.
This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys being at the heart of a dynamic legal team.
About you:
We are seeking someone with strong IT skills including advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word Outlook Excel PowerPoint and research tools and the ability to quickly learn and navigate the systems used across the firm.
The role requires a confident and professional telephone manner with the ability to handle routine client queries independently when fee earners are unavailable. Strong communication organisational and teamwork skills are essential along with a high level of attention to detail.
The ideal candidate will be flexible proactive and dependable with a practical approach to managing tasks. To this role you will bring the ability to stay calm under pressure meet tight deadlines prioritise effectively and take initiative when needed to support the team.
What We Can Offer You:
Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits including:
- A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave.
- Free private medical insurance and the option to add family members.
- A generous pension allowance.
- Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
- The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years.
- Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes.
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
- Offices in Birmingham city centre with onsite restaurant.
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at
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Employment Type
Full-Time
