Executive Assistant to the Master and Manager of the Master's Lodge
Terms: Full Time role, typically 36.25 hours per week
Salary: Between £38,000 and £43,000 p.a
Based: Cambridge
The Role
As Executive Assistant to the Master, you will ensure the smooth running of the Master’s Office and the Master’s Lodge; run events in the Lodge for the community and for the College’s principal guests; and support the Master by providing strong administrative support relating to the Fellowship, ensuring sensitive and timely communication between the Master, individual Fellows, and other members of the College, as well as between the Master and other key postholders in the collegiate University.
You will be able to draft reports and deal with correspondence on the Master's behalf.
As Manager of the Master's Lodge, you will have experience managing budgets and organising and running large-scale formal and informal events and small-scale high-level hospitality.
You will have excellent organisational skills and be proficient in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, and Zoom. You will have the ability to work on your own initiative, using tact and diplomacy on sensitive matters, while maintaining discretion and confidentiality.
About Us
Clare is the second oldest of the 31 Colleges in the University of Cambridge. Regarded as one of the most progressive and informal, Clare is renowned as a College that achieves academically at the highest levels, whilst also being welcoming, forward-thinking, and inclusive.
Located in the heart of Cambridge city centre, the College is extraordinarily beautiful and famed for its gardens on “the Backs” (the famous backs of the Colleges that overlook the River Cam). Clare’s Old Court, a Grade I listed building, is the centre of the College and is unique among the ancient Cambridge Colleges in having maintained its architectural integrity over the course of its history.
Salary and Benefits
The annual salary will be between £38,000 and £43,000 p.a. This is a full-time role of 36.25 hours per week, but there is a possibility of working fewer hours during the long vacation. The core working hours during full term will be 9 am to 4.30 pm Monday to Friday, and will be worked in College. There is flexibility either side of these times.
Included in the benefits package is lunch, membership of a defined contribution pension scheme, membership of a medical cashback scheme, parking, and a non-contractual bonus paid in November of each year, subject to eligibility.
Closing date: Friday 18 April 2025.
Interviews will take place the week of 24 April 2025.
Interested?
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We are committed to the principles of equal opportunities, diversity, and respect and want to be known as an employer that invests in its staff, recognising and rewarding them for their commitment.
No agencies please.
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