Personal Assistant to Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Wave Multi Academy Trust, St Austell, PL25 4FD

9 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  As soon as possible

• Closing date

  7 May 2026 at 11:59pm

• Date listed

  28 April 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time: 24 Hours a week - Mon to Thurs - Term Time Only Hybrid working with 1 day in Central Office
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £30,651 - £34,481
• Actual salary: £16,953 - £19,072
• Pay scale: NJC14 - NJC21

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking a highly capable Personal Assistant to deliver comprehensive, confidential, and proactive executive support to the Chief Executive Officer. This role is central to the effective leadership and governance of the Trust and requires an individual who can manage complex priorities, exercise discretion, and operate confidently at senior level.

The postholder will be responsible for full diary and meeting management, acting as a key gatekeeper to the CEO, and ensuring effective forward planning across executive commitments. The role includes preparing agendas, briefing papers, reports, presentations, and correspondence, as well as supporting strategic Trust‑wide projects and tracking actions arising from executive and governance decisions.

Working closely with the Chair of Trustees, board members, and governance professionals, the PA to the CEO will coordinate the preparation and distribution of governance papers, take high‑quality minutes, and monitor actions to ensure timely completion. The role also acts as a primary point of contact between the CEO and senior leaders, trustees, and a range of external stakeholders including regulatory bodies and professional advisers.

In addition, the role involves overseeing confidential records and document management, coordinating executive travel and events, supporting inspections and audits, and ensuring effective information flow across the Trust. Absolute confidentiality, professionalism, and attention to detail are essential.

For a full list of duties, please see the job description below.

What the school offers its staff

Health & Wellbeing

Pension

Training & Development

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free Parking

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.

Wave are an established and successful Multi Academy Trust, comprising of Alternative Provision Academies (APAs), Medical Academies (including Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s child and adolescent mental health unit ‘Sowenna’) and a Special Academy.

We provide education for vulnerable pupils aged 4 – 19 across Devon and Cornwall. The Trust has a national reputation for the delivery of outstanding pupil outcomes including enabling pupils to access the most appropriate education setting and transition to employment, training and higher or further education. The Trust educates over 1000 pupils and employs over 350 members of staff.

We Aim To

• Provide a balanced and broad curriculum that promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils and prepares them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life.
• Give access to the National Curriculum; provide opportunities for external accreditation, and, for those pupils with specific learning difficulties, effective and personalised programmes.
• Ensure all pupils are supported to develop positive attitudes towards themselves and others. Promoting emotional well-being and self-esteem; helping our pupils to recognise their potential and work positively within their community.
• We will respect all pupils and encourage them to become active participants in their own learning, develop confidence, independence, self-esteem and express their needs and desires.
• Seek effective and positive working relationships with pupils’ families, schools and other agencies.
• Enable effective outcomes for our pupils.

Commitment to safeguarding

Wave is dedicated to the safeguarding of children and Safer Recruitment Procedures will be followed. The position requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS check and online checks may be carried out.

Applying for the job

Apply for the job by following the link below.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

Additional documents

If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.

Personal Assistant to CEO Job Description and Person Spec..pdf - 221 KB (opens in new tab)

About Wave Multi Academy Trust

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Website: Wave Multi Academy Trust website
• Email address: recruitment@waveedu.org
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wave-multi-academy-trust

Wave Multi Academy Trust (MAT) comprises of nine regional alternative provision academies, two medical academies in Devon and Cornwall and a special academy in Devon for pupils with social communication and interaction needs.

We provide support to enable pupils to reintegrate into mainstream or special schools; or in the last four terms of compulsory education, integration into the world of work or further education.

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