Executive Assistant

Position:          Executive Assistant /Senior Administrator

Location:                Remote / Home based

Salary:                    £28,433 - £31,761

The Aurora Group

The Aurora Group is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities.

We’re currently looking for a Executive Assistant / Senior Administrator to support the Strategy and Estates teams.

The Role:

Your role will be to support both our Strategy and Estates Directors as well as their respective teams. there will be diary management, reporting, meetings and a wide range of administration, coordination duties.

Naturally, within a senior operations environment there will be a variety of sensitive and strategic meetings which will need organising, minutes taken and actions logged and followed up.

This will be a very varied and busy role, you will be dealing with confidential data and will take ownership of some aspects for which training will be given.

For a copy of the job description please email: liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Experience:

Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate:

• Extensive Administration and/or EA experience
• Rigorous attention to detail
• Ability to take accurate minutes and actions and track action progress
• High degree of resilience, ability to challenge/keep self and others to task and strong open/honest communication skills
• Good working knowledge of MS Office packages
• Confidentiality / Initiative / independence / self-starting attitude
• Experience of working in the education or care sector (highly desirable but far from essential)

What’s on offer? 

• Full training and continued support
• Life assurance and pension
• Perkbox - offering high street discounts
• Employee assistance programme
• Car lease scheme
• Bike to work scheme
• Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.

Want to Apply?

Closing Date: The role will remain open until it is filled - Please apply early as we reserve the right to close roles when we have a suitable level of interest.

Please complete a full application form via our careers page to apply.  For more information on this position please email liz.hudson@the-aurora-group.com

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment safeguarding checks including an enhanced disclosure and barring service (DBS) check. 

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children.

The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer 

Please note that candidates that are shortlisted might be subject to an online search.