Senior Executive Assistant - Oxford, United Kingdom - University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Oxford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About the Blavatnik School of Government
Our vision is of a world better led, a world better served and a world better governed.

We are a global school committed to improving the quality of government and public policymaking worldwide, through three routes:

teaching

current and future leaders;

generating

research with impact; and

engaging

with governments and practitioners.

What we offer
The School is a collaborative, friendly, and dynamic department based in an award-winning building in Oxford. We host regular events and talks with well-known guest speakers - all of which are open to staff.

On the social side, we have regular coffee/cake mornings for staff, a family-friendly Halloween event, and Christmas and summer parties.

As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

An excellent contributory pension scheme
38 days' annual leave
Family leave schemes and a comprehensive range of childcare services
Cycle loan scheme and discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs

More information about working at the School can be found on our jobs page.

About the role

We're excited to be looking for a Senior Executive Assistant to our Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Vice-Dean. This is a critical role for the Blavatnik School, sitting at the heart of the School - in the Executive Office - with responsibility for all support to the COO and the Vice-Dean, and for the operations of the School's governance function.

This post comes at an exciting time for Blavatnik School:
we are embarking on our second decade with a fantastic community of staff, alumni, and supporters.

We are seeking someone with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.

In your work with the COO and Vice Dean, you will be responsible for managing two busy diaries (and the COO's inbox) and taking forward a wide range of issues on their behaves.

You will be someone with a zest for communicating with people from all walks of life, who will inject equal amounts of enthusiasm and diplomacy into each of their interactions - be they with students, administrative colleagues, or senior academics and practitioners from top institutions across the world.

In your work on School governance, you will have operational responsibility for the smooth-running of the School's governance function - to include scheduling the annual governance meeting cycle, writing and collating agendas and discussion papers, and tracking actions and decisions.

PLEASE NOTE:

This is an in-person role, based at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford.**
That said, the School is a flexible employer and occasional requests to work from home with a valid reason will be supported.

Application process
We anticipate that interviews will take place during week commencing 16 January and will be conducted virtually.