EA to CEO (French speaking)

Job Description

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Are you a French-speaking EA? Look no further, this is the role for you!

The opportunity

This is a key role where you will be providing a broad administrative and business support service to the CEO of EDF Renewables UK and Ireland, fully understanding the organisation and its priorities in order to support to the best of your ability. Being a true gate keeper, the role holder proactively oversees the CEO’s workload, taking responsibility and thinking ahead.

Pay, benefits and culture

At EDF Renewables we are dedicated to doing good things. We take pride in tackling the world’s biggest challenge, and we’re leading the fight. Doing good isn’t always easy, and we can’t always do it as individuals. We embrace ideas to create an innovative and open-minded culture regardless of role. A culture where we trust the best versions of ourselves to make good things happen.

We’ve made it this far by being collaborative, innovative and agile. We’re self-starters and we want you to be too.

Alongside a competitive salary and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

Your rewards package includes a choice of flexible benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, subsidised health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.

We strive to create an inclusive and diverse business and we recognise that our differences make us stronger, increasing our ability to innovate and succeed quickly. We challenge ourselves to continuously improve to achieve our purpose, whilst rewarding work and recognising the contribution each of our employees makes to achieving our goals. We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you’ll be doing

A key challenge for this role is to ensure that the CEO has the bandwidth to complete independent work, by managing the interruptions, emails, meetings and the continual flow of information being sent to them.

Attention to detail is critical and a high level of writing skills required to respond to correspondence on the CEO’s behalf within EDFR UK and within the wider EDF Group.

The ability to build relationships, manage sensitive information and be resourceful in dealing with new situations and challenges will enable success in this role.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You will be well educated with extensive previous experience of providing support to a CEO or Executive team member.

Must have experience of coordinating board meetings and taking minutes and producing high quality papers. Able to work independently and take appropriate decisions in the CEO’s absence.

• High level of attention to detail.
• Able to be resourceful and show initiative in seeking out solutions.
• Excellent IT skills, specifically Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
• An understanding of what good governance is.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Be personable at all times but show assertiveness when required.
• High level of confidentiality and discretion in a professional manner.
• Able to plan and prioritise work appropriately.
• Must have experience of working in an agile and fast paced environment.
• Team player with a positive attitude.
• Must be fluent in English and French.

Location; London