Personal Assistant to Senior Management Team

Ashford College; Ashford; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Flexible personal leave

Exclusive discounts & perks

Wellbeing and health support

Competitive pension scheme

Job summary

East Kent Colleges Group is seeking an experienced Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team at Canterbury College. You will provide proactive, confidential support to senior leaders and coordinate administrative support for curriculum initiatives across the College.

You will lead a central administration team, drive high standards of service and ensure smooth day-to-day operations while upholding safeguarding, equality and inclusion commitments.

Qualifications

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to support senior colleagues with schedules and work plans.
• Strong customer service skills and a courteous, confidential service to the highest standard.
• Ability to manage administrative duties in a timely and independent manner.
• Motivated to lead a team and maintain a comprehensive central administration service.

Responsibilities

• Provide proactive, confidential support to senior leaders and coordinate admin for curriculum initiatives.
• Lead and manage the central administration team and drive high standards of service.
• Ensure smooth day-to-day operation of leaders' activities and safeguarding commitments.

Skills

Attention to detail

Customer service

Organisational skills

Job description

About The Role

Your Efficiency Powers Our Leadership - Join us as Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team

EKC Group is seeking an experienced and highly organised Personal Assistant to the Senior Leadership Team at Canterbury College.

In this key role, you will provide proactive, efficient and confidential support to senior leaders, ensuring the smooth day-to-day operation of their activities. Alongside this, you will play a central role in coordinating administrative support for curriculum initiatives across the College. You will also lead and manage a dedicated central administration team, driving high standards of service and contributing to the success of this important support function.

Here are just some of our benefits when working for the East Kent Colleges Group:

• Generous Annual leave allowance
• Flexible Personal Leave
• Exclusive Discounts & Perks
• Wellbeing and Health Support
• Competitive Pension Scheme

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About You

We are seeking to appoint a motivated individual who has excellent attention to detail and is able to fully support Senior Colleagues utilise their schedules and work plans. You will have exceptional customer service skills, be able to manage administrative duties in a timely manner, and have a courteous and confidential service to the highest standard.

You will motivate your team of staff, embrace individual development and maintain a comprehensive service in the central administration team.

About Us

Outstanding Ofsted Provider

East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles.

As a designated establishment, we are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore have an obligation to carry out checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults. These checks include conviction/caution self‑declaration, Enhanced DBS check and obtaining sufficient referencing.

It is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so.

If you are successful in being shortlisted to interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

East Kent CollegesGroup is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce.

We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Awardand are aDisability Confident Employer. This confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. With any successful candidate, we will explore any reasonable adjustments to a role due to a health needs or disability.

Similarly, we have a commitment to Care Leavers (Care Covenant Pledge)and to current or previousArmed Forces personnel (Armed Forces Covenant Pledge)with a commitment to interview applicants who meet the positions essential criteria and who have declared this on their application.

We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.

We do not engage with agencies for permanent staff and have an in-house recruitment team.