Job description
Salary: £22,000 - £25,000
Location: Gateshead
Contract: Full time; Fixed term until October 2024
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Executive Support Team at Cambridge CEM as an Executive Support Assistant.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
The role
As an Executive Support Assistant, you'll play a central role in the Executive Support Team. You'll be responsible for providing high quality administrative, secretarial and PA support to the Senior Leadership team at CEM and the wider CEM community and be responsible for the day to day running of the Gateshead office. You will work closely with the Executive Support Lead and CEM Senior Leadership team to deliver and achieve CEM's strategic objectives.
About you
You will be educated to GCSE level standard or equivalent and have experience of providing high-quality administrative services using Microsoft Office products. You will also have excellent accuracy and attention to detail with the ability work under pressure prioritising your workload to achieve a number of tight deadlines.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- Group personal pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Green travel schemes
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Midnight on Tuesday 3rd October 2023 and interviews are scheduled to take place the week beginning 9th October 2023.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role as it does not meet the minimum skill and/or salary requirements.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.