Executive Assistant to the Principal Leeds, England
Job description
- Full time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £39,119 rising to £41,700 from September 2023
Are you an experienced EA/PA with outstanding communication skills and a knack for building strong working relationships? Do you pride yourself on your exceptional attention to detail and the ability to stay on top of multiple tasks simultaneously? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity that you won't want to miss!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive, committed and highly skilled Executive Assistant to provide professional, strategic and confidential support to the Principal. The Principal is a warm, supportive and inspirational leader who values and cares deeply about both the pupils and her staff body. The school was awarded independent secondary school of the decade in 2021 and continues to be a friendly, fun and supportive environment with high investment in pupil and colleague wellbeing.
You will play a key role in the school providing a professional, courteous, efficient and confidential secretarial and administrative service to the Principal, and in ensuring the smooth running of the wider PA and administrative team across all sections of school, ensuring a high quality administrative service to pupils, parents and staff. This post will have direct responsibility for four PAs with two of these PAs taking responsibility for leading the wider administration teams in their section of school.
You will have substantive, high level PA/EA skills, strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to multi-task, work under pressure and prioritise as necessary. You will be extremely professional and have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders, staff, pupils and parents. Experience in an educational setting would be an advantage.
The school is friendly, fun and supportive, while insisting upon and maintaining high expectations.
We value our team and offer a wide range of benefits including:
Discounted school fees for children in line with the school’s policy (permanent positions only)
Childcare provided for staff’s children during school INSET days (from the age of 3 up to age 11)
Personal pension plan with Aviva up to 5% employee contribution and 10% employer contribution (with the facility to pay higher or lower employee contributions)
Training and CPD available including five inset days per academic year
Staff lunches: three courses for £1 available during school lunchtimes + free tea and coffee machines
Access to free online 24/7 GP services
Access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Vivup, offering telephone counselling and advice or mental health and practical issues, as well as 6-8 counselling face-to-face sessions
Free car parking available on site
Onsite gym and swimming pool available for staff use within set times as well as staff gym classes and pilates
Salary sacrifice schemes for cycle to work
Use of the school’s extensive library facility
Closing date: 8am Monday 24 April 2023
Interview date: Friday 28 April 2023
