Private Secretary to CEO

Are you highly organised, administratively skilled and proactive, with a talent for reviewing and consolidating information? Are you looking for your next challenge that will give you exposure to senior leadership, high profile stakeholders and strategic decision making?

Do you want to work for an exciting social change organisation with the mission of enabling people, places and the planet to flourish?

With our new Design for Life strategy, we are embarking on the next chapter in our 270 years’ strong history of social impact, with a range of interventions to unite people and ideas to turn world changing ideas into world changing actions.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Private Secretary for our Chief Executive, Andy Haldane, to help us achieve real-world impact by ensuring his private office runs efficiently and effectively. The role manages a small team to provide a slick administrative and general support function for the CEO and to support the wider Executive Team to deliver on strategic priorities.

This role is based full-time at RSA House in London. The role requires in-person working, sometimes at other locations outside London. Some hybrid-flexibility may be possible from time to time depending on the needs of our CEO.

About You

What we are looking for in the successful candidate:

• Exceptional organisational and administration skills, with good attention to detail and a proactive working style
• Ability to work in a fast-moving creative environment on a robust and autonomous basis
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to quickly build rapport with people at all levels and from a diverse range of professions, backgrounds, and enthusiasms
• Proven experience with event/project management and research
• Discretion and resilience under pressure

To find out more about this role, please download our job description here.

Apply

In order to apply, please click ‘quick apply’ on our recruitment page and submit your CV. You will also be required to answer a series of questions. You do not need to submit a cover letter.

Please submit your application through the RSA website. We cannot accept applications via email. All applications will receive an automated response.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 18th November at 9am. However, screening and interviews will be ongoing, so we may close the vacancy early if sufficient exceptional candidates apply. Please get your application in as soon as possible.

Please note that we cannot accept late, incomplete applications, and we can only consider candidates who apply through the online application process.

Inclusion Statement

As a social change organisation, we believe everyone, regardless of visible or invisible difference, should be welcomed to participate in creating a better future.

We aspire to maximum inclusion in our work and endeavour to challenge systemic inequity and all forms of discrimination. We therefore welcome applications from everybody who is committed to our vision and values and can demonstrate the skills, competencies and experience required for the role applied for.

Read our full commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

About Us

We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. Where world-leading ideas are turned into world-changing actions. We’re committed to a world that is resilient, rebalanced and regenerative, where everyone can fulfil their potential.

The RSA has been at the forefront of significant social impact for 270 years. Our proven change process, rigorous research, innovative ideas platforms and unique global network of changemakers, work collectively to enable people, places and the planet to flourish. We invite you to be part of this change. Join our community. Together, we’ll unite people and ideas in collective action to create opportunities to regenerate our world.

We offer great benefits, including 29 days holiday (plus bank holidays), additional wellbeing allowance, free fellowship throughout employment and lots more! Read our full list of benefits here.