View Vacancy - Head of Her Majesty Ambassador's Office (CZE18.453)

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Corporate Services Support

The British Embassy in Czech Republic is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic and consular interests overseas. We are now looking for a Head of Her Majesty's Embassador's Office to join us.

The main objective of this role is to ensure smooth operation of the Ambassador´s office and provide support to the Ambassador and the Deputy Head of Mission in all of their tasks.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Diary management of the Ambassador´s diary, arrangement of meetings and appointments, coordination of briefing notes for the Ambassador, coordination of Ambassador´s transport;

  • Line management of the Ambassador´s Driver and Social Secretary, management, planning and supervising of budgets of the Ambassador´s Residence and office;

  • Organisation of security and logistics of British Ministerial and Royal family visits to the Czech Republic;

  • Typing of correspondence and minutes from regular meetings; dealing with all incoming and outgoing correspondence;

  • Coordinating work of all Embassy sections on the main social events in the Ambassador´s Residence.


  • Minimum high-school accomplished education;

  • Demonstrated experience in working in a support administrative role;

  • Demonstrated experience in line managing employees;

  • Perfect organisational and time management skills;

  • Good communication skills;

  • Knowledge and interest in Czech and British current affairs;

  • Fast and reliable decision making skills;

  • Good IT Skills (MS Office).


  • Ideally, knowledge of diplomatic protocol;
  • Knowledge of Czech public administration.

5 September 2018
Executive Officer (EO)
Full-time, Temporary, Fixed Term, Jobshare
37.5
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Czech Republic
Prague
British Embassy
1
CZK
47,171
12 November 2018

This is a full-time position and maternity leave cover contract.

The successful candidate will be subject to professional background check and security clearance. The successful candidate must have pre-existing work authorisation for the Czech Republic in order to apply.

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy in Czech Republic are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local Czech Republic employment law.

All applicants should have the right to live and work in Czech Republic. The British Embassy does not sponsor for work permits.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.

We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered.

Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

This opportunity is closed to applications.