Personal Assistant to the Executive Team

Creative Scotland; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading theatre company in Scotland is seeking a Personal Assistant to support their disabled executive team. This key role involves providing practical and administrative assistance to ensure that leaders can focus on running the organization effectively. The position offers hybrid working arrangements, flexible hours, and an empowering work environment. Candidates should have a positive disability-informed approach and be prepared for various logistical challenges.

Qualifications

• Support for disabled executive team members.
• Experience in administrative roles preferred.
• Ability to provide practical assistance and remove barriers.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical and administrative support to executive leaders.
• Remove barriers for the executive team focusing on company operations.
• Facilitate accessible working environments and practices.

Skills

Practical support

Administrative support

Disability-informed approach

Confidentiality

Communication

Job description

Personal Assistant to the Executive Team

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company

Deadline: 31 July 2025 at 12:00

BOP Theatre are looking for a new member of staff to support our disabled executive team with practical and administrative support.

Job Details:
Pay: £16 per hour (self-employed)
Hours: Minimum 14 hours per week, more during busy times
Location: Central Scotland (you'll need to drive). Hybrid working.
Reports to: CEO
Flexible hours needed: Some evenings and weekends required. Potential travel required.
Deadline to apply: 31st July 2025 at 12 noon (BST)
Interviews: 6th and 7th August at the BOP office in Glasgow.

What You'll Do:
You will provide practical and administrative support to the senior leaders (Artistic Director, Executive Director, and Producer) who are disabled. Your job is to remove barriers so they can focus on running the company. These barriers may be physical, logistical, administrative, communication or technological. You will support the provision of accessible working environments and practices. It is important that you can do this confidentially and with a positive disability-informed approach.

What to know more?:
We will run two drop-in sessions where you can pop in and ask us questions about the job or the company. These will be on Zoom, and two of the leadership team will be present. Both sessions will have automatic Zoom captions and Monday 21st July will have BSL interpretation. There is no obligation to apply if you attend these sessions. The time and date of these drop-in sessions are:
Thursday 17th July between 1 -2 pm - (CAP)
Monday 21st July between 5 - 6pm - (CAP, BSL)
Please contact us directly via [e-mail] to gain the Zoom link.

A full job description, BSL video introduction, spoken video introduction and details on how to apply can be found on our website at: https://www.boptheatre.co.uk/job-opportunity-with-bop-personal-assistant-to-the-executive-team/

The deadline is Thursday 31 July 2025 at 12:00.