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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Personal Assistant to two Regional Directors in the South West region at Oasis Community Learning (OCL). OCL is one of the largest multi-academy trusts in the UK, which is part of the Oasis Global family. The South West region consists of 5 secondary and 6 primary academies.
In this senior administration role, you will join the OCL Secretariat and work closely with the Regional Directors in order to enable them to carry out their role successfully. This will involve managing their diary and email inbox and highlighting all potential risks/key issues within the region to them and to other key stakeholders. Where possible you will resolve these issues or will escalate them.
You will be the first point of contact to the Regional Director for people from inside and outside the organisation and will draft communications and correspondence on their behalf. You will also prepare agendas, take minutes, capturing actions and ensuring these are followed up in a timely fashion.
Make your next career move to an organisation dedicated to transforming lives!
Benefits of joining Oasis Community Learning:
- Opportunities for training and development internally and externally
- Generous holiday allowance of 25+8 days per annum rising to 30+8 after two years’ service
- Defined benefit pension scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- The opportunity to join an employee funded health cash plan scheme with access to employee discounts
- Access to free counselling service
- Free eye tests
- Wellbeing resources
- A lively environment with colleagues who care
This is an exciting opportunity for a professional administrator to develop their career and take on a national role within the education sector in a senior support staff role.
Our Ideal Candidate Will:
- Have a willingness to demonstrate commitment to the values and behaviours which flow from the Oasis Community Learning ethos
- Have strong administration and diary management experience
- Be educated to Degree level or equivalent experience in this type of role
- Be self-motivated, with a ‘can do’ approach to problem-solving
- Be able to demonstrate initiative and work unsupervised
- Be a team player who is able to work collaboratively
- Have the ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities
- Show emotional intelligence and resilience
- Have an excellent standard of written and spoken English and be able to converse at ease with senior colleagues, business contacts and members of the public
- Be willing to undergo personal checks including enhanced DBS checks
If you would like a conversation about the role, please contact Lara Kyle, EA to CEO, ([email protected]; 07500976308).
To apply, please request and submit a completed application form FAO Lara Kyle to [email protected] by no later than midday on Friday 29th December 2023.
