Portuguese speaking Secretaries with EU languages

Our client are a London based European Union organisation offering a truly cosmopolitan, multilingual and multicultural working environment.

They are currently recruiting for Portuguese speaking team assistants, PA's, secretaries, administrators and clerical staff to provide multilingual secretarial and administrative support to a team of executives within the healthcare field.

You will be responsible for providing a full range of secretarial, clerical, PA and administration support duties to include dealing with large multilingual documents, generating reports, travel and diary management, drafting and formatting documents, organizing meetings, taking minutes and liaising with delegates.

As a Portuguese speaking secretary, team assistant, administrator, you will be required to multi-task and manage a busy schedule and it is therefore important that you have proven secretarial and administrative skills from within a complex, corporate or public administration environment.

The organisations working languages are English and Spanish, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Slovenian, Portuguese, Slovakian, Greek, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Norwegian or Icelandic and fluency in English and one of these languages is essential.

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Advanced MS Office skills - these will be tested.
Typing speed of 45wpm +
Fluent in English and Portuguese.
Proven secretarial experience from within a complex, corporate or public administration environment.
Educated to a minimum of A-level standard - certificates must be provided

The organisations working languages are English and Spanish, Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian, Maltese, Dutch, Slovenian, Portuguese, Slovakian, Finnish, Greek, Swedish, Portuguese, Romanian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Norwegian or Icelandic and fluency in English and one of these languages is essential.

The salary is paid on a temporary hourly rate initially according to experience. Other benefits once on contract would include generous pension, medical insurance and an extremely generous annual leave package.

To apply, please send your CV in Word format to Sam House, CVs in any other formats will not be accepted. If you have applied for any other languagematters vacancy there is no need to re-apply, as your CV will be considered for all vacancies that match your language skills and work experience.

We work constantly to provide equal opportunities for all, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, social background, religion, disability or sexuality.

NB: Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK or hold a valid work permit. Please note that we contact successful candidates within 3-4 working days. We will consider you for all our vacancies now and in the future. Please do not reapply unless requested to do so. Language Matters is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.