Vacancy at Brathay Trust
Location: Ambleside
Salary: £27, 000 per annum
Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)
As the Executive Assistant, you will provide high-level administrative support to the CEO and wider Senior Leadership Team. Your responsibilities will extend to managing the CEO's schedule, overseeing Board and Committee meeting logistics as well as supporting CEO led events and projects.
This role requires someone who is enthusiastic, trustworthy, highly organised and able to prioritise proactively. You will need to have excellent oral and written communication skills and great interpersonal skills, establishing and maintaining excellent working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an organisation committed to inspiring young people to build their brighter future. If you have a strong work ethic, good grasp of priorities, meticulous attention to detail, and are highly organised, then we encourage you to apply.
Essential Experience:
- Experience of working as an Executive Assistant to a CEO or Senior Executive.
- Experience of supporting Boards
Desirable Experience:
• Experience of budget management
• Experience of organising events
Essential Skills:
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to work under pressure and can prioritise workloads to meet timescales and deliverables.
- Well-developed communication/interpersonal skills and excellent presentational abilities, both written and oral.
- Ability to maintain high standard work practices and ensure integrity, respect, and confidentiality.
- Professional and confident approach when dealing with people – internally and externally.
- Demonstrates the ability to work equally effectively as part of a team or alone and a customer focused, positive, and can-do attitude are important.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), CRM databases and virtual meeting products
How to apply:
Candidates should submit a CV and cover letter addressed to the Chief Executive, Teresa Jennings.
Please note: Applications without a CV and cover letter will not be considered.
At Brathay, we know everyone has the capacity to do extraordinary things that can inspire and benefit others. This could be you too!
- 30 days paid annual holiday entitlement (plus bank holidays)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Life assurance
- Refer a friend scheme
- Long service award
- One free staff nights accommodation (Ambleside) per year (transferable to family or friends)
Safeguarding & Safer Recruitment:
For the safeguarding of children and young people, the successful candidate agrees to mandatory checks being carried out with the Disclosure and Barring Service at the appropriate level for their role.
Roles which include a regulated activity are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore all
convictions, cautions, reprimands, final warnings, or bind overs, including those regarded as ‘spent’, should be declared unless otherwise “protected” from disclosure under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013).
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