Overview
EA to Chief Executive & PA to Senior Leadership Team
Contract Type: Full time permanent
Location: one of our charity workbases (Littlehampton, Penrith, Exeter, Basingstoke) or homebased with occasional travel
Hours per week: 37.5
Salary: £38,618 pa
We are recruiting an Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive and PA to the Senior Leadership Team who will share our passion and commitment to members of the fire and rescue services community to live healthier and happier lives.
The post holder will work at a senior level to provide effective strategic executive support to the Chief Executive and proactive administrative assistance to all members of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT).
This post holder is the primary point of support to the Chief Executive and directors. This is therefore a fast-paced, multi-faceted role with a number of varied and competing daily priorities to manage. The post holder will be situated at the beating heart of the senior team, enabling its effectiveness and agility.
Our Senior Leadership Team and colleagues throughout the organisation are ambitious for the charity and increasingly work in a contemporary and dynamic way, modelling progressive and inclusive leadership and always supporting one another to take opportunities and to manage competing and changeable priorities so we can achieve our shared and individual objectives. We are looking for someone who will thrive in this working style.
We are looking for a very special, experienced and positive executive assistant who will work in an agile and dynamic way. He/she/they will have a positive, observant, courteous and friendly manner and be resourceful and tenacious.
Generally, you will:
- Provide strategic executive support to the Chief Executive
- Provide administrative support to the Senior Leadership Team
- Provide exceptional stakeholder correspondence and engagement internally and externally
To be successful in this role, you need relevant experience:
- Providing executive, secretarial and/or administrative support at a senior level in an organisation of similar breadth and scope and in a pacey, dynamic and rapidly changing environment
- Managing multiple diaries
- Managing events and/or projects
- Researching, synthesising and summarising complex information for the purpose of briefing an executive
- Drafting sensitive correspondence to high-profile and/or key stakeholders
- Administering board or committee meetings
This post is subject to a disclosure and barring check.
How to apply
To apply for the role, please submit your CV and an introductory letter. Alternatively, please contact us for an application form.
Closing Date 9.00am on 9 December 2024
We welcome applications from all sections of the community. When recruiting our new team members, regardless of the role, we are looking for people who share our values.
Interview Dates
First interviews will take place via MS teams on 11 December 2024 with second round interviews to take place in person, in London on 16 December 2024.
We reserve the right to close this role early should we receive a sufficient number of applications. Due to the number of applications we receive, we are unable to contact applicants who are not shortlisted for interview. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application was not successful this time.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
