Trust Executive Assistant

Wonder Learning Partnership, Pocklington, YO42 2LL

12 days remaining to apply

• Job start date

  1 September 2025

• Closing date

  15 August 2025 at 9am

• Date listed

  14 July 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Administration, HR, data and finance
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time: 37 hours per week. Monday to Friday
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: Between £30,060 to £40,476

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint a highly capable and experiencedExecutive Assistantto provide comprehensive and strategic support to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of our Trust. This is a pivotal role requiring exceptional organisational, interpersonal, and communication skills, as well as a high degree of discretion and professionalism.

The successful candidate will work closely with the CEO to ensure the effective coordination of their responsibilities, enabling them to focus on strategic leadership and the delivery of the Trust’s mission.

The role will involve regular travel across our schools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high-level administrative and operational support to the CEO, including diary management, correspondence, meeting preparation, and travel arrangements.
• Act as a key liaison between the CEO and internal and external stakeholders, including governance bodies and the Department for Education.
• Draft, proofread, and manage communications on behalf of the CEO and Board, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and consistency.
• Coordinate and monitor projects and initiatives led by the CEO, ensuring timely follow-up and delivery.
• Support the CEO in maintaining oversight of Trust performance, including the collation and presentation of key data and reports.
• Facilitate the CEO’s external commitments and partnerships, including voluntary and advisory roles.
• Lead and manage a dispersed administrative team, promoting a culture of high performance and collaboration.

What the school offers its staff

This is an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to the success of a values-driven organisation committed to educational excellence and the wellbeing of its staff, pupils and students. You will work alongside a dedicated leadership team and play a key role in supporting the strategic direction of the Trust.

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.

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 Wonder Learning Partnership

• Type: Multi-academy trust
• Email address: recruitment@wlp.education
• Phone number: 01759 302395
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/wolds-learning-partnership

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