Are you an enthusiastic, proactive, and passionate professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment? Do you love being the go-to person who keeps everything running smoothly? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Stonewater, we’re looking for an Executive Assistant to support our Chief Officer (interim Group Director for Development) and play a key role in the successful operation of our Development Directorate. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, challenge, and making a real impact.

What you’ll do:

In this role, you’ll be the organisational powerhouse behind the Chief Officer’s diary, meetings, and communications, ensuring every detail is managed with precision. You’ll take ownership of coordinating high-profile events, stakeholder meetings, and away days, making sure everything runs seamlessly and leaves a lasting impression.

You’ll also research, prepare, and present key information to support strategic projects, helping to drive forward initiatives that shape our communities. Building strong relationships across the organisation and with external partners will be central to your success, as will your ability to bring creativity and accuracy to everything from drafting communications to managing complex schedules.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience working directly for an Executive (one-to-one) or any levels above

• Experience working within a development and/or construction sector (desirable).

• Excellent knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office 365 applications; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CoPilot, Teams.

• Experience of event and project management.

• Experience of minute taking, report writing and action-tracking.

• High levels of accuracy, organisation, prioritisation, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience of working on own initiative.

Job Description - Executive Assistant

Why join us?

You’ll be part of a dynamic team where your ideas and energy make a difference. We value enthusiasm, initiative, and a commitment to doing things brilliantly. In return, we offer a supportive environment, opportunities for development, and the chance to work on projects that shape communities nationwide.

Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work document.

Discover Stonewater:

Stonewater is a leading housing provider. We manage around 40,000 homes, serving 93,000 customers across our portfolio of affordable properties for general rent, shared ownership and sale, alongside specialist accommodation, with an ambitious house-building programme.

Our mission is to provide quality homes and services for people whose needs are not met by the open market.

We’re looking for like-minded people to join our team of over 900 talented colleagues who embody our values of being ethical, ambitious, passionate, agile and commercial, as well as people who want to make a difference and transform people’s lives.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and working towards accreditation for becoming a Disability Confident Leader, which allows us to record and report on disability, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace to better support our colleagues. We have also achieved accreditation for being an Advanced Employer for Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix. We are committed to being a Menopause Friendly employer and working towards accreditation our Menopause Friendly accreditation.

Are you ready to #DiscoverStonewater?

Stonewater reserve the right to bring the closing date forward should enough quality applications be received prior to the current closing date.