Executive Assistant
Oasis Community Learning, London, SE1 7HS34 days remaining to apply
Job start date
6 October 2025
Closing date
10 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
6 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- SP27 to SP31 £38,220-£41,771 FTE
Executive Assistant job summary
- Executive Assistant
- (Part-Time, Term Time Only + 3 Weeks) 25 hours per week
- 12-month fixed term contract
Are you a master of organisation, a strategic thinker, and a natural communicator?
Do you thrive in fast-paced, high-energy environments where no two days are the same? Oasis Community Learning is looking for someone just like you to be the driving force behind our senior leadership team.
As the strategic right hand to a dynamic Regional Director and the wider executive team, overseeing secondary education across Oasis Academy Lister Park, Oasis Academy Wintringham and Oasis Academy Immingham. If you love solving problems before they arise, excel at bringing order to complexity, and are ready to make a real impact—this is your moment.
This is a 12-month fixed term opportunity to make a lasting impact in a role that blends executive support, project coordination, and strategic influence.
As Executive Assistant, you’ll be at the heart of a fast-paced, mission-driven team transforming education across the North East. You’ll manage the executive teams’ schedules, communications, and priorities with precision, while representing them with professionalism and confidence across the Oasis network and beyond.
This is a role for someone who doesn’t just keep up, they stay ahead.
What makes this role a perfect match?
- Strategic Exposure: Work directly with a Regional Director, gaining insight into leadership across multiple academies.
- Career Growth: Build high-level skills in project coordination, stakeholder engagement, and executive support.
- Purpose-Driven Work: Help shape education in the North East and make a real impact on young lives.
- Supportive Culture: Join a values-led organisation with a collaborative, inclusive ethos.
- Professional Perks: National pay scale, flexible working, travel opportunities, and tailored development.
What You’ll Do
- Be the Regional Director and executive teams trusted partner - managing their diary, inbox, travel, and meetings
- Act as a gatekeeper and ambassador, handling sensitive communications with tact and clarity
- Lead and coordinate strategic projects using recognised methodologies
- Organise high-level meetings, events, and committee servicing with flawless execution
- Maintain systems, registers, and documentation to ensure compliance and efficiency
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and training across the regional team
- Monitor budgets, process expenses, and manage financial documentation
- Provide executive-level support with discretion, initiative, and emotional intelligence
What You’ll Bring
- Degree-level education or equivalent experience in executive support
- Strong command of MS Office and SharePoint
- Experience in the education sector (ideal but not essential)
- Exceptional communication, judgement, and interpersonal skills
- A proactive mindset with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Emotional resilience, discretion, and a collaborative spirit
Why Oasis?
Oasis Community Learning is a family of academies committed to transforming lives and communities. As EA, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of secondary education across the North East.
Further information about the job
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.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About Oasis Community Learning
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
The overall vision for every part of the Oasis trust is for community. A place where everyone is included, making a contribution and reaching their God-given potential. As well as delivering first-class, innovative education, we seek to build a ‘Hub’ in each of the areas where we work; creating safe and inspiring local neighbourhoods that provide integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and whole community.
Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community
We understand the complex responsibilities of education, through a lens of character, competence and community. These principles, along with the Oasis 9 Habits and ethos, are intentionally developed and embedded throughout all of our academies day-to-day.
We have a commitment to inclusion, social integration and closing the disadvantage gap; we want to give advantage to the disadvantaged. Through a fostering of character and relationships, our students and teachers can form meaningful relationships built on a shared determination to learn and develop together as one community; one family.
Together, Oasis staff aspire to:
Create safe, stimulating learning environments
Increase progress and attainment above national averages
Provide high quality teaching which secures good and accelerated progress for all students
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