Personal Assistant to the Executive Team

The Trust wishes to appoint a Personal Assistant to the Executive Team to join the central administration team. This new role will play a fundamental part in the Trust’s growth and development.

You will be reporting to the CEO and Trust Business and Resource Manager.

Duties will include:

• Proactively managing the Chief Executive Officers diary, accommodating regular complex changes in  her schedule and pick up diary conflicts so that key deadlines are met and responsibilities fulfilled as efficiently as possible
• Significant Trust wide Project Management
• Support to the executives, including Chair of Trust Board

You must have excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload, working to challenging deadlines and anticipate requirements in advance. You will have significant administrative experience at a senior level and it would be desirable if you had a knowledge of the educational landscape and or experience within the educational sector. You will have the ability to maintain strict confidentiality, excellent interpersonal and professional skills with a proven ability of working successfully within a team.

In return, we can offer you the opportunity to join a highly committed and developing Trust team with an incredibly strong inclusive ethos and whom are fully committed to your ongoing professional development.

If you wish to apply, then please make sure that you complete a letter of application, showing how you demonstrate all the characteristics in the job description, person specification enclosed with the pack and why you are suitable for the post. Please do not attach a curriculum vitae; we will only consider information completed as part of the application form.

Letters of application must be addressed and submitted to Mrs Emma Chawner, Trust Business and Resource Manager, Tees Valley Education, Fulbeck Road, Middlesbrough TS3 0QS.

If you have any queries about the application process or the position contact Emma Chawner on 01642 221156. Visits to the Trust are actively encouraged for this role as relationships with key stakeholders will be crucial. They can be arranged during the period of this job advert excluding w/c 24 December to 6 January, as the Trust is closed.

Closing Date: Thursday 10 January 2019 at 12pm

Shortlisting: Thursday 10 January at 2pm

Interview Date: Tuesday 15 January 2019

Hours: 37 hours per week, Full time/whole time

Reporting to: CEO