Trust Executive Assistant
The East Manchester Academy
Manchester
- Expired
- Salary:
- Grade 8 Points 31-35 (Salary £40,476 - £44,711)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 24 March 2025
Job overview
The Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and committed individual for the following role, Trust Executive Assistant
Required ASAP
Permanent
All Year Round – 35 Hours per Week (Flexible Working Requests Considered)
Grade 8 Points 31-35 (Salary £40,476 - £44,711)
Greater Manchester Education Trust is committed to enhancing provision and raising standards of education for all cohorts of pupils to promote better outcomes and equitable opportunities in the future. This is defined within the Trust Vision statement:
We provide:
- Great schools, where resilient, happy people flourish
- Great teaching, where creative colleagues inspire and excel
- Great opportunities, where everyone grows and develops: Great futures
To support our progressive and growing Trust, we are looking for an experienced Executive Assistant who can work flexibly to support our schools and the future success of GMET.
The successful candidate will be self-motivated, organised, proactive, and professional. The postholder will report to the Chief Executive Officer, working closely alongside the Chief Finance and Operations Officer to support in effective communication to stakeholders, diary management and planning, administration and management of trust projects.
About you
We are looking for individuals with the right attitude, passion, and commitment who will help us to achieve our vision to ensure that together we create lives of opportunity.
You will have excellent teamworking and interpersonal skills, an awareness of effective organisational cultures and an understanding and implement the principles of confidentiality and trust.
The Greater Manchester Education Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check and other pre-employment checks.
You will benefit from experience of working for an exciting and people-focused Trust that prides itself on our commitment to our community partners and businesses.
We understand that investing in our staff is the best investment in our students and offer a wide range of strategies to help our teachers and support staff be highly effective in their roles.
Employee benefits include: -
- Health Cash Plan
- Generous Pension Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Free parking
- Professional Development and Training
- Company sick pay dependent upon service
- Blue Light Card
Further information and application form can be downloaded from the trust website: https://gmetrust.org/careers
Please return your application form to recruitment@gmetrust.org by 12 noon on Monday, 24th March 2025.
Interviews to take place week commencing 31st March 2025.
If you have any questions, please email: recruitment@gmetrust.org
As it is not possible to inform each applicant if they have been selected for interview, if you have not been contacted within 5 working days of the closing date, please be aware that you will not have been successful on this occasion.
Attached documents
About The East Manchester Academy
- The East Manchester Academy
- 60 Grey Mare Lane, Beswick, Manchester
- M11 3DS
- United Kingdom
The academy is part of The Greater Manchester Education Trust. The Trust is a multi-academy trust, which came into effect in September 2022 comprising four schools; The East Manchester Academy, a mixed school of over 1,000 students in the heart of Manchester’s re-generation area, Whalley Range 11-18 High School, a girls school of 1,500 students, Levenshulme High School, a girls school which is three miles away with a very similar, diverse community and Parrs Wood 11-18 High School a mixed school of nearly 2000 students in the heart of East Didsbury.
This is an exciting time for the academy and to help transform the life chances of students within East Manchester. As you will see from our recent Ofsted inspection report, we have driven rapid improvements to all areas and are ready to accelerate further. We are a growing academy and we are now looking to add further capacity to our team as we enter the next stage of our development; to become an exceptional school that ensures the children of East Manchester flourish both academically and socially. We are a forward thinking and happy school, we embrace research and work collaboratively with colleagues within and beyond our trust to drive standards.
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