Senior Executive Administration Manager

This role requires occasional travel across the UK (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales).

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

An exciting new opportunity has opened at the UK’s largest arthritis charity, Versus Arthritis, for a highly experienced Senior Executive Administration Manager. The role reports to the General Counsel and Company Secretary within the Chief Executive Office and works with them and the Governance Manager to ensure the delivery of an effective and seamless secretariat function for all Governance and Senior Leadership Team meetings.

About the role

You will be the charity’s most senior administrator and will be responsible for delivering exceptional proactive executive support to the charity’s Chief Executive Officer and the Director of People and Culture, and for managing a high-performing new team of two Directors Executive Assistants and an Events Administration officer.

You will also oversee the delivery of a secretariat function for the charity’s expert committees and advisory groups.

We are committed to raising the profile of our brilliant administrators working across the UK, and you will be responsible for setting up and leading a new Administration Network for the charity to ensure that our administrators are well trained, supported and can enjoy increased profile and voice within the organisation.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following, then we’d love to hear from you:

• Exceptional administration management and organisational skills.
• Self-motivated and a proactive approach.
• Track record of building strong relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders at all levels.
• High standards of discretion, diplomacy and confidentiality.
• A coaching style to line management supporting continuous development and improvement.

*As a hybrid worker, the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer, we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example, for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Benefits

Your excellent benefits include:

• Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
• Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
• Simplyhealth cash plan.
• Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
• Learning and personal development opportunities.
• Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
• Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
• Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).

Application deadline and shortlisting

• We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales.

Interview

Interviews expected: Date to be confirmed at Versus Arthritis London Office.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process, we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.