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Traditional PA

Traditional PA Job Description Template

Tiger Recruitment has created this traditional PA job spec template to assist clients in the hiring process. It is designed to be a generic outline so will need to be changed based on a role’s requirements.

Traditional PA Job Description

Key responsibilities:

  • Efficient minute-taking in team and client meetings
  • Extensive travel with the managing director to meetings and conferences, sometimes internationally
  • Clear and accurate typing up of all letters, memos, reports and similar documents from shorthand notes
  • Saving and archiving, where necessary, all documents in the company database
  • Occasional transcribing of dictation and voice memos
  • Implementing and maintaining an office filing system
  • First point of contact for all incoming calls and visits
  • Complex diary management, both business and personal, for the managing director and team
  • Extensive and efficient email correspondence
  • Answering telephone calls in a timely fashion, taking clear and detailed messages
  • Organisation of meetings, including booking venues, ordering refreshments and minute-taking

Essential requirements:

  • Graduate of secretarial college desirable, but not necessary
  • At least three years’ experience in a similar role
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Competent with Microsoft Office suite
  • Polite telephone manner

Personality profile:

  • Extremely organised
  • Detail-orientated
  • Focused and responsive
  • Takes initiative
  • An excellent multi-tasker

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary and bonus
  • Gym membership
  • Company phone
  • Pension scheme
  • Health care
  • 25 days annual leave per annum
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