Executive Assistant

Derby College, The Roundhouse, Derby, Derbyshire, DE24 8JE

6 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  13 September 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  7 September 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
  • Business support, administration and corporate services
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full time equivalent salary: Up to £36,000 per annum (dependant on experience)

What skills and experience we're looking for

You’ll be an experienced Executive Assistant or senior administrator with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Highly organised and proactive, you will bring excellent written communication skills and advanced digital expertise across Microsoft 365. You’ll be confident in analysing data and producing clear, high-quality reports for senior leaders, while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and accuracy.

With strong relationship-building skills, discretion, and professionalism, you will remain calm under pressure, take initiative, and demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement and high standards. Exceptional diary and calendar management skills are essential, with the ability to prioritise competing demands and coordinate complex schedules effectively. Ideally, you will have previous experience working within an educational environment, along with an understanding of governance processes and experience supporting boards, committees, or senior leadership meetings.

What the college offers its staff

• 34 days holiday (inclusive of 8 bank holidays and 6 closure days where these occur)
• Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with a 19.9% employer contribution
• Discount at our Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ onsite Little Explorers Nursery
• TOTUM discount card (aka NUS/Student Discount Card) / discounted Tastecard
• Discounts on East Midlands Railway Annual Season Tickets
• Microsoft Office for FREE with 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage
• Discount on treatments at SENSI our onsite salon at the Roundhouse
• Flint Bishop Solicitors – free will writing, 1-hour free consultation with family department, 10% discount on Conveyancing services
• Continuousdevelopment and progression opportunities
• Free eye tests with Specsavers
• Our new and enhanced Employee Assistance Programme provides 24/7 confidential support for wellbeing, mental health, and life matters.
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

You’ll will provide high-level, strategic support to the Vice Principal – Quality of Education, contributing directly to the success of the College’s quality agenda. You’ll prepare papers for key senior leadership meetings, take minutes and oversee action logs, coordinate quality assurance activity, support curriculum planning, and ensure inspection readiness. Working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders, you will drive effective communication, streamline operations, and support the delivery of impactful quality improvement initiatives across the organisation.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

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About Derby College

• Organisation type: FE College, ages 16 to 99
• Education phase: Sixth form or FE college
• Size: No information available
• Age range: 16 to 99
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• Website: Derby College website
• Email address: hrrecruitment@derby-college.ac.uk
• Phone number: 0800 028 0289
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/derby-college

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