Here are Watkin Jones, we are looking to appoint a highly organised, detail orientated professional into an Investment Team Administrator & London Office Coordinator role.

Working in a pivotal support role, this is an office-based position which acts as an integral part of the wider Investment team, providing support with administrative and liaison activities across the business. Additional to this, the successful candidate will provide front of house service to all colleagues and visitors to the London office ensuring that all interactions between the organisation and others are positive and productive.

Whilst this is a combined role, the individual aspects can be defined as below:

Team admin support:

Ensuring the effective smooth running of the Investment Team. This will include, but not limited to the preparation of board level documentation, organising, updating, and maintaining filing and data management systems and sourcing information and research for projects as and when required.

London office coordinator:

 Managing all aspects of day to day activities within the London office in liaison with the landlord and providing support to colleagues, and office visitors by handling a variety of tasks in order to ensure that all interactions between the organisation and others are positive and productive.

What We Offer:

At Watkin Jones, we believe in investing in our people.

Here’s what we offer:

Rewards: Discretionary annual bonus, health cash plan, life insurance, and more.
Professional Growth: A pivotal role within a forward-thinking organisation and the opportunity to work on diverse and exciting projects. Work-Life Balance: 25 days of annual leave (increasing with tenure), agile approach to work and discounted gym memberships.
Benefits: Company car or allowance, exclusive shopping discounts, and a contributory pension scheme.

About you

This role would suit someone with a willing, can-do attitude who has the confidence to solve issues in a pro-active and professional manner. You’ll need to be a confident communicator with ability to liaise with people across all levels externally and internally, both face to face and online.

The ideal candidate will offer previous knowledge of managing a non-serviced office including the co-ordination of its smooth running without the support of a dedicated facilities management function and have experience of working a similar role within a busy office environment with involvement of supporting a large team of people, managing frequently changing and multiple diaries with moving priorities.

Ideally, you’ll hold a level 2 or 3 qualification (e.g., GCSE or NVQ) and have a welcoming and professional approach and be proactive and responsive to requests.

About Us:

Watkin Jones was established in 1791 and has been building homes since 1927. More recently, we listed on the AIM market in 2016 with a market cap of £255m (current market cap c. £550m). In FY2020 we generated gross revenue of £354m and a Gross Profit of £75.9m. Our position in the market is based on a ‘capital light’ model, where we typically work with institutional forward funders.

Watkin Jones’ success to date has been based on our emphasis on building relationships of trust, our customer focus and our forward-thinking structure. Our intention is to create the future of living, which to us means high quality rental homes, community focus and sustainably driven development.