Executive Assistant
Salary: £26,800pa FTE
Working hours: 28-37 hours per week
Duration: Permanent full time
Holidays: 20 plus 5 office closure days
Location: Norwich
Closing date: 12th January 2025
Interview date: 22nd and 24th January 2025
The Role
The Executive Assistant will be responsible for working closely with the CEO and the Board of Trustees to ensure all governance functions are executed in a timely and effective manner and to ensure the organisation meets and adheres to its governance responsibilities.
Experience and Qualifications:
-Experience in providing Executive Assistant support at CEO/senior management level
-Experience in managing governance processes with non-executive / trustee boards
-Office management experience
-Project management experience
Skills and Knowledge:
-Excellent communicator both verbally and in writing to a range of stakeholders
-Highly effective time management, prioritisation and planning skills
-Problem-solving skills – able to think creatively and solve problems smartly
-Able to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
-Confident user of Microsoft Office 365 programmes
-Knowledge of the charity sector
Attributes:
-Friendly and approachable
-Good at forming productive working relationships with people across the organisation
-Self-motivated and able to work independently on your initiative
-Keen to make improvements where opportunities exist
-Essential Requirements
-Regularly working from our Norwich office
-From time-to-time to work flexible hours to:
--provide minute-taking for meetings (may run past 6 pm on a bi-monthly basis)
--assist on occasional events such as the AGM