Salary: £24,000 - £27,000 Dependent upon experience plus £3,964pa London Weighting if applicable
Hours: 36 hours per week
Location: Pan UK role, we have offices in London SE1, Cardiff, Scotland and Northern Ireland
About The Fostering Network
The Fostering Network is the UK’s leading fostering charity. We are dedicated to creating a better future for fostered children and young people. We bring together everyone who is involved in their lives, leading, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to make foster care better. Together with our members and supporters we are a powerful catalyst for change, and we have been shaping and influencing the fostering agenda for more than 40 years.
About the role
The EA to the CEO plays a vital role in providing professional administrative and operations support to the CEO, Board and Directors.
We are looking for an efficient and highly organised executive assistant to join our charity, to ensure that The Fostering Network runs smoothly.
The role will include managing meetings and workload; always ensuring we are operating effectively and efficiently. Ensuring the CEO is prepared and supported at all times.
The post holder will have responsibility for organising our Board of Trustees’ meetings including the administration of papers and other materials.
The post holder will have responsibility of all administration tasks required to support the senior leadership team, including taking accurate records of meetings and maintaining action logs.
About you
We are looking for someone who is highly organised, has experience of managing competing workloads and tasks, can work independently without supervision and is confident in interacting at all levels of the organisation, including senior management in a sensitive and diplomatic manner. This role will require minute taking in high level meetings and comparing multiple diaries so having acute attention to detail is a must.
The post holder will also have great written and verbal communication with the ability to work under pressure to agreed deadlines and adapt quickly to change. In addition, we are looking for someone with experience working as an Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or a similar level.
The person specification details the essential and desirable criteria in full, four key criteria’s for the postholder are:
- Responsible for managing the day-to-day executive assistant needs for the Board, CEO and Senior leadership team
- To support governance, acting as a link person for trustees and managing the arrangements for committee & board meetings
- Extensive diary and calendar management
- Agenda creation, logistics, venue/room booking, scheduling meetings, minute taking, record keeping and action logging
Closing date: Monday 28th August 11pm
Interview date: Monday 4th September
Interview location: Teams/Zoom
To apply please email your completed application form to recruitment@fostering.net. CVs will not be accepted. All applications should be in WORD we can not accept pdf.
The Fostering Network is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community and especially encourage applications from groups which are under-represented. All applicants are treated equally and selected on the basis of individual merit and ability to meet the requirements of the role.
As an organisation we are committed to supporting flexible working. This post is advertised as full-time, but we are open to applications from individuals who would like to work part time as part of job-share arrangement, please indicate on your application.
The Fostering Network is a registered charity in England and Wales 280852 and in Scotland SC039338.
