ROLE SUMMARY:
Based at Berlin at the Berlin School of Business and Innovation campus, the Personal Assistant will give dedicated support to the Executive team of BSBI and to the Chief Academic Officer.
The role is an all-encompassing and extremely important one within our commercial business. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day schedule of the busy executive calendars. Duties include arranging functions/events, conferences, meetings with both internal and external executives and stakeholders, extensive diary management, overseeing and organizing international travel, and generally offering high a level of support.
Efficiency, an eye for detail, and pro-activeness, are prerequisites of this position as well as great interpersonal skills which are imperative in order to succeed and progress within this fast moving, and rapidly expending company.
This is an extremely diverse role where no two days are the same. The ability to think on your feet using your own initiative in an environment that moves fast and changes often will be imperative. 
If you are an ambitious Personal Assistant looking for a career move where you can progress in a rapidly expanding, innovative and successful international company then this is an excellent opportunity. We encourage you to get fully involved, to share our passion for the business, and to make an input into achieving our aims.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
•    Liaising with senior staff at regional, national and international higher education institutions, professional bodies, associate centres and other similar institutions.
•    Coordinating and servicing meetings. This will include drafting agendas, researching items and taking minutes and following up actions. Meetings may include complex negotiations.
•    Ensuring executives receive all necessary papers for meetings in good time and that action points are progressed. 
•    Project coordination support.
•    Proactively managing communication. 
•    Dealing proactively with mail, including preparing draft responses, seeking information from relevant sources, resolving issues and ensuring any resulting deadlines are diarised and met. 
•    Organising corporate and senior management events. 
•    Helping to develop and maintain effective integrated information retrieval systems with an increasing emphasis on automated IT systems.
•    Providing effective diary management. 
•    Managing and overseeing the travel bookings via an external agent and making sure staff travelling under the appropriate cost code are adhering to the rules and boundaries and flagging any that are above limits.
•    Translation of documents from German to English and being able to type up correspondence.
•    Monitoring budgets, gathering and compiling and manipulating information on spreadsheets and presenting this in a digestible format.
•    Other duties as required. 
•    Under the day-to-day direction of the Principal, working collaboratively ensuring a proactive and seamless administrative service. This will include filtering telephone calls, reception of visitors, diary management, progress chasing, drafting letters and audio/copy typing.