Senior Administrator PA

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Senior Administrator PA  to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a Senior Administrator PA - You’ll be based at the project offices in Warwick for 2-3 days per week and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.

Job Purpose

You’ll provide a proactive administrative support service to the Central Region Team in the Midlands within our Infrastructure Delivery Team (ID) to ensure the efficient use of the team’s time and assist them in pursuing their business objectives, as well as supporting the ID Construction Directors as their PA.

What You'll Do

• Manage the ID Central Region Construction Directors diary, including arranging travel & accommodation bookings and expense reviews.
• Make travel and accommodation bookings and file expense claims for the L&SE team.
• Provide a first line response for team communications, maintaining up-to-date information.
• Raise and manage Purchase Order requests, working closely with the Delivery Teams and finance to ensure compliance with relevant business processes.  
• Manage on and offboarding process for starters and leavers, including arranging inductions and site access for new starters.
• Manage bookings and logistics for site visits across the projects, including liaising with key external stakeholders.
• Organise various meetings, briefings and events as required across the project – including liaising with the Central Region representatives for Region wide events (~200+).
• Provide a minute taking and distribution service for key meetings and coordinate the flow of information, communication and knowledge between the business area and its partner organisations.
• Schedule weekly team calls and manage the agenda.
• Ensure compliance with data handling in line with GDPR and company policies and procedures.
• Assist with SharePoint management and ensure Team documents are filed and stored correctly and updated as required.
• Develop systems and processes as required.
• Provide quality responses to calls received from external contacts using own knowledge and experience and dealing with bespoke data requests.

About You

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in scheduling and attending Microsoft Teams calls.
• Experience with Outlook email and managing multiple calendars.
• Ability to produce a variety of accurate and appropriate written communication. 
• Strong relationship and communication skills with experience of liaising with senior members of staff internally and externally with stakeholders. 
• Good influencing and excellent team working skills.
• A driving licence would be useful for travel to sites but not mandatory.

What You'll Get

A competitive salary paying up to £39,000 – dependent on capability

Here are some of the benefits that you’re entitled to:

26 days holiday, plus eight statutory days, an option to buy extra holiday days, and the option to holiday swap up to 3 bank holiday days 

An annual performance incentive

A generous pension scheme, double matched up to 6% of your salary each month. For every £1 you contribute we’ll put in another £2, so if you put in 6%, we’ll add 12% giving a total of 18% to your pension pot

Life insurance at 10 times basic salary

Employer funding towards a portion of your Private Medical Insurance.

More Information

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing and improving.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/ 

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