Executive Assistant

Location: Sandwell College, West Bromwich

Working Hours: 37

Salary: Circa £32,000

We offer competitive pay and excellent rewards including:

 

• Excellent annual leave plus bank holiday allowance 
• Competitive pension scheme 
• A variety of health and wellbeing programmes 
• Discounted gym membership 
• Progressive career development and training with regular ‘Appreciation Days

Sandwell College is a great place to work; a large, successful, richly diverse and growing college with a turnover of over in excess of £40m. Having achieved ‘Further Education College of the year’ in 2019, the College has achieved huge success over recent years and has further, big ambitions for its future.

The college has two state of the art campuses in West Bromwich accessible through excellent transport links and, having merged with Cadbury College, now has an exciting and growing Sixth Form College in the heart of Birmingham. 

The successful candidate will be a driven, ambitious individual who will support new and existing projects, providing all-round administration and coordination support, developing, and implementing strategies, identifying key areas for improvement, and supporting senior management with new initiatives.

You will be highly articulate, with the ability to work under pressure and to tight timelines. With a polished and professional outlook, you will have excellent command of grammar and punctuation with strong IT capabilities and an exceptional telephone manner with the ability to liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. You will also hold experience of organising and managing a range of activities and plans and have a proactive approach thinking ahead for those managers you are supporting.

This is a key role in providing an effective secretarial support function for the College’s Senior Leadership Team, taking independent and pro-active action where appropriate and in a fully-professional manner. The ideal candidate will be driven and professional individual who works well within a team as well as autonomously and able to use their own initiative prioritising their own workloads.

This would be a great opportunity for an individual with experience in a PA, EA or events focussed role to take on a role that involves a high level of responsibility and drive. If you are highly motivated, hardworking and reliable, we would love to hear from you.

To view the full job description, please click see the attached document.

Closing date is 26 January 2022. We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised date.

Interviews: First stage interviews will take place in TBC.

Sandwell College is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. All appointments are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects the diverse community we serve and positively encourage applications form all.