Paula Ainger Email & Phone Number

South Bermondsey, England, United Kingdom

Chislehurst, England, United Kingdom

A highly demanding role supporting both Heads with a full range of secretarial and administrative duties, ensuring the efficient and effective running of the school’s office and daily business. Extensive, complex Diary Management, dealing with highly private, confidential, and sensitive information. Supporting the wider SLT, as and when required with daily liaison with wider support team. Liaising directly with stakeholders and parents including receiving visitors. Trusted dealing with personal affairs. Attending and taking actions at monthly meetings.

London, England, United Kingdom

Supporting three Directors within Private Residential, Cost & Commercial Management & Mechanical & Engineering (M&E). A varied role including all aspects expected from a Personal Assistant including; coordination of Cabinet Meetings and Forums ensuring smooth running, dealing with personal affairs ensuring confidentiality was maintained at all times, creation of quarterly review paper in InDesign, supporting Bid team as and when required, creation of bids, B2B’s and fee proposals to brand standards and tight deadlines, weekly meetings with other PA's to ensure work assignments were prioritised, support to wider team, as and when required. I also took on the role of Sustainability Champion, helping promote sustainability awareness at team meetings to achieve behaviour change.Between January 2018 and January 2019, I supported two Senior Directors within the Financial Institutions Team while their PA was on Maternity Leave. A high level of bid support along with complex diary management, arranging conference calls over global time zones, prioritising and resolving conflicting appointments, overseas travel, dealing with confidential and sensitive information and event organisation.

London, England, United Kingdom

Supported the CEO with his busy schedule along with creating and having ownership of company templates giving supervision to additional support staff on brand standards. As and when required, supported the wider team including covering reception over a lunchtime period.My role then took on the responsibility of the company website and marketing along with support to the wider team in terms of ensuring all documentation was to brand standards. This involved having regular contact with the PR company and web designer. Responsible for the organisation of the company professional photos through liaising with external client as and when required.

After taking a 1 year Maternity Leave, I returned to EC Harris in October 2012 as a Personal Assistant to the head Partner of the Financial Modelling team. This role consisted of general PA duties including the creation and formatting of presentations, completion of bids, fee proposals to tight deadlines, updating of staff CV’s with support to the wider Financial Modelling team – report formatting, creation, and formatting of presentations.

London, England, United Kingdom

My career at EC Harris started in 2001 as a Team Secretary and quickly developed into a Personal Assistant Role for one Partner within the Affordable Housing Sector, with support to his growing team. In 2009, my career progressed to Personal Assistant to two Senior Partners (Head of Residential and Commercial). This role involved complex diary management with a high percentage of presentational work requiring attention to detail and working to tight deadlines along with support to the Bid Manager when needed.

London, England, United Kingdom

Manningtree, England, United Kingdom