PA to the CEO - Full-time

The Stour Academy Trust

Ref:KCC-F9-31-S
Posted:07/09/2018
Pay:KR6 (£19,864-£21,789 per year)
Start Date:Immediate
App Close Date:20/09/2018 at 08:00
Interviews:Week commencing 24th September

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Established in 2012, The Stour Academy Trust is a highly collaborative Multi-Academy Trust of 8 primary schools, employing over 350 staff and educating over 1800 children in schools across Kent.

The Trust is led by the Chief Executive Officer and his central team, consisting of a Deputy CEO and Directors in Finance, HR and Marketing.

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced individual to provide high level, professional PA and administrative support to the Chief Executive and central team to enable them to operate effectively in their role.

As PA to the CEO, a driving license and flexibility with regards to travelling is essential as you will travel with the Chief Executive Officer to meetings as necessary.

Purpose of the Job

To provide a high level, professional PA and administrative support to the Chief Executive to enable him to operate effectively in his role. Provide a high level secretariat function to the meetings as directed.

Specific Responsibilities

Proactively manage the Chief Executive Officers extremely busy diary, accommodating regular complex changes in his/her schedule and pick up diary conflicts so that key deadlines are met and responsibilities fulfilled as efficiently as possible.
Travel with the Chief Executive Officer to meetings as necessary.
Assist the CEO and Dep CEO with personal arrangements as and when required, collect tickets, passes, etc. .
Work with all members of the Central Team to proactively arrange regular Trust meetings mapping out complex cross diaries a term / year in advance.
Work with members of the Central Team to proactively arrange regular meetings in schools with direct reports and individuals that the Chief Executive Officer / Central Team support.
Organise travel arrangements nationally to ensure value for money and best use of time.
Produce a weekly itinerary to enable briefing papers to be prepared for the Chief Executive Officer
Prepare agendas, attend and record minutes for meetings as directed by the CEO.
Prepare and track actions and follow up on outstanding actions in advance of meetings.
Oversee the operation of the central and hub offices, book meeting rooms and ensure adequate supplies at all times.
Work with the Central Team to ensure the whereabouts of senior leaders are available.
Screen phone calls, direct calls and take messages as appropriate.
Overseas all postal matters including, franking, couriers and sufficient stock e.g. envelopes etc., for all members of the central Team.
Undertake general office duties e.g. typing, filing, photocopying and scanning.
Preparing rooms for meetings, acquire appropriate refreshments and welcome visitors and/or collect return visitors to nearby transport links.
Where appropriate booking meeting rooms and set up with refreshments.

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Informal visits are welcomed, please call 01227 710477 (option 3) to arrange.

Information about the trust

Join a supportive and collaborative network of staff at The Stour Academy Trust.

The Stour Academy Trust recognises that our education system needs to quickly and more radically shift to close equity gaps and to better prepare our young people for the 21st century. We are transforming our schools from passive forms of learning focused on direct instruction and memorisation, by moving towards interactive methods that promote the critical and individual thinking needed in today’s innovation-driven economy.

Our pedagogical model combined with the intentional deployment of technology will help us deliver personalised learning in an enabling environment. Technology will accelerate our progress but will not be the driver of our vision.

We aim to nurture a community of learners that challenge thinking, where our staff are empowered to take risks and develop their practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system, which is not held back by traditional restrictions and ideologies.

By limiting routine or unnecessary tasks we allow professionals to focus on learning behaviours and interactions which will promote emotional intelligence and the development of children as life-long, curious learners.

There will be no barriers to achievement within our learning community and our teachers will build strong relationships that facilitate the learning of others. Collaboration will open doors, minds and possibilities and enable individuals to meet their personal goals. .

We are looking for people that:

•Recognise that our current education system needs to radically change to better prepare our young people for the 21st century

•Want to move away from passive forms of learning and move towards interactive teaching methods that promote critical and individual thinking

•Are able to take advantage of the latest technology to deliver personalised learning that is accessible for all children, irrespective of their language skills, reading ability or any other factors that may present learning challenges

•Want to work with other staff as a community of learners that challenge traditional thinking

•Want to develop their own practice to meet the needs of an evolving school system

•Want to develop children as life-long, curious learners

•Want to build strong relationships with children that facilitate their learning

•Want to teach in enabling environments that promote flexibility, collaboration and independence

Job Contact Information

Name:Rob Butterworth
Address:Park View,
Sturry,
Canterbury,
Kent,
CT2 0NR
Telephone: 01227 931560
Email: rob.butterworth@stouracademytrust.org.uk

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