Executive Assistant

Job description
Executive Assistant

Location: Acton, London. A five-minute walk from Acton Town tube station.

Contract: Full time hours, term time only plus two weeks, permanent contract.

Start Date: March 2024

Salary: Ark Support Scale- Grade + Points 25-33 (Actual £33,444 - £38,817)

Closing Date: Applications
will be considered on a rolling basis and early applications are advised.

Interview Date: TBC

We are recruiting an Executive Assistant who will also take the lead in HR. We are looking for candidates who are able
to demonstrate the highest expectations of student effort and conduct and are
able to do so with kindness and warmth.

As
the Executive Assistant to the Principal, you will play a crucial role in
ensuring the Principal is best equipped to lead the academy. In this role, you
will assist with the Principal’s top priorities by providing key administrative
support, managing the Principal’s and SLT diary and being involved in a wide range of other duties.

As
HR lead you will provide the delivery of a proactive, effective, and efficient
day to day HR service for the academy, undertaking duties across a range of HR
activities including payroll and data management reporting, compliance,
recruitment and selection, performance management, safeguarding casework, HR
policy guidance and associated HR administration.

The successful candidate
will have the opportunity to grow with the school. They will be
supported in their development and preparation for future roles. We will
develop every staff member that joins our team, providing one-to-
one support, coaching
and mentoring and access to
extensive network training.

For more information on this vacancy, please use this link arksoane.org/jobs

Full details available here EA job pack.pdf

You will:

•
Share the Ark Soane beliefs, vision and mission and be aligned with the Ark six
pillars underpinning it

•
Be committed
to Ark’s ethos of high expectations for every student in both academic
achievement and personal development

•
Manage behaviour
effectively to create
a positive, calm and
purposeful climate for learning

•
Have the drive, skills
and resilient character required to help develop a new
school

•
Be reflective about the Academy and committed to securing its continued development

•
Value and support practices driving continued
progress across the network of Ark schools

For more information about our school,
please visit: www.arksoane.org.

To arrange a confidential conversation with the Principal about this role,
please contact Zahra Hamdaoui at HR@arksoane.org or phone 020 8161557+. Read more