Executive Support Officer to the CEO

More than one location, Twynham Learning

11 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  22 April 2025

• Closing date

  13 February 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  31 January 2025

Important

This teaching role is at more than one school in the trust. You can find out more in schools overview.

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 20 hours per week 5 hours per day, Monday to Thursday. Other working patterns may be negotiable. Occasional flexibility of working hours to meet our business needs is essential
• Contract type: Permanent
• Actual salary: £15,148 to £17,180 per annum

What skills and experience we're looking for

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have secure academic achievements with language, writing and numerical skills to a strong standard
• Are well organised, with the ability to track key deadlines and bring forward actions with clarity and conciseness
• Have strong IT skills to accurately maintain digital records and produce a wide range of documentation
• Have excellent written English and a pleasant and professional telephone manner to be able to deal with routine correspondence independently
• Can demonstrate flexibility to balance planned tasks whilst addressing reactive issues as they arise
• Can work with discretion, confidentiality and diplomacy
• Have strong integrity, courage and confidence to communicate and challenge without fear or favour
• Are capable of working at pace when required and intellectual skills to assimilate information showing resilience when required
• Have experience in the education sector (however the right skillset and experience will be the priority irrespective of sector knowledge)
• Have experience of undertaking the administration for formal meetings and of providing personal assistant support to a senior manager
• Have website development, marketing and/or project management experience (however support and training will be provided)
• Are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people in accordance with our Safeguarding and Child Protection policies

What the school offers its staff

• An opportunity to work with friendly, inclusive, highly professional colleagues
• Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Free on-site parking
• The opportunity to work within Twynham Learning; a progressive multi-academy trust, contributing significantly to our local community
• The opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful areas of the South Coast

Flexible working opportunities

Term-time working, plus INSET days and one week in school holidays each year.

Negotiable work pattern (20 hours per week).

Further details about the role

We are looking to appoint an Executive Support Officer to join the Twynham Learning Core Services (‘Head Office’) team of our multi-academy trust. Our trust is currently comprised of three secondary schools, five primary schools, Bournemouth Bay Teacher Training Partnership and Two Rivers Institute.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to support our CEO as we transform into a highly influential education provider for the Dorset, New Forest region and beyond. Twynham Learning is an organisation built firmly on its founding principles of Humility, Equality and Community, which make us a moderate, progressive and ambitious trust. We unashamedly recruit on character and potential combining high professional skills with the basics of decency, integrity, respect and aspiration for all of our colleagues. We have a culture of strong values, ambition for our community and commitment to shaping world class opportunities for the best generation of young people.

This post is an essential role within our newly expanded trust executive team and will be an important conduit between the wider organisation and the executive team. We are seeking an individual who can communicate with people of all backgrounds, able to quickly build relationships, establish trust and confidence and work independently. An organised mind that can make sense of key discussions and facts and identify priorities with strong organisational skills to ‘put down on paper’ key actions.

Providing an efficient, effective and confidential administrative support service to the CEO and other trust leaders centred around three key areas of executive assistance, support with strategic planning and marketing and communications. This post goes beyond that of an administrative/PA role and is the perfect role for an ambitious, smart, switched-on critical thinker and proactive-doer who will be undertaking highly important duties with the full support of the trust executive team, working at pace. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Commitment to safeguarding

We value diversity and inclusiveness. We want our workforce to be representative of all sections of our community, so we give equal opportunities. We don't discriminate on age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy/maternity, race/colour/nationality, religion/belief, sex or sexual orientation. We'll only consider people who can evidence their right to work in the UK. We're committed to robust Safer Recruitment processes to safeguard children. We undertake enhanced criminal records checks before appointment. Candidates must disclose all unprotected spent and unspent cautions and convictions. It is an offence to apply if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity with children.

Applying for the job

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About Twynham Learning

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Twynham Learning website (opens in new tab)
• Email address: recruitment@twynhamlearning.com
• Phone number: 01202402789
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/twynham-learning (opens in new tab)

Twynham Learning exists to be a powerful movement for social equality and provide world-class opportunities irrespective of background. We are a charitable Trust which brings together and supports a family of schools on the Dorset coast: Christchurch Infant School, Christchurch Junior School, Poole High School, Stourfield Infant School, Stourfield Junior School, Twynham School and Sixth Form, The Grange School and Twynham Primary School.

School Details

The Grange School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 19
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 446 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 19
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report (opens in new tab)
• School website: The Grange School website (opens in new tab)
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/the-grange-school-christchurch (opens in new tab)

Arranging a visit to Twynham Learning

To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@twynhamlearning.com.

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