Executive Support Manager - Directorate Office

Fixed term contract for 12 months [Maternity Cover]. Campus based role.

Interview date: Thursday 9^th January 2025

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an Executive Support Manager to join the Directorate Executive Support Team, to assist the Vice-Chancellor and Directorate members in delivering upon their strategic objectives by providing a range of services including high level administrative, organisational and strategic support.

The Directorate Office is a busy environment and deals with matters of strategic importance on a regular basis. Your role will be to provide high quality executive support to the Vice-Chancellor and Directorate members within a busy, policy-influenced office environment. Providing effective line management to the Executive Support Assistant and acting as a key point of contact for both internal and external stakeholders with a view to establishing and maintaining highly effective business relationships.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Lana Orr, Head of Directorate Office at Lana.Orr@edgehill.ac.uk.

We are open to, and welcome, applications from internal applicants who are seeking a secondment opportunity.

About you

As Executive Support Manager, you will:

• Pride yourself on your work ethic and positive attitude in the workplace
• Be pro-active and enthusiastic with a commitment to higher education and delivering outstanding executive support and line management.
• Enjoy working as part of a team, as well as working independently using your own initiative, to provide an outstanding executive support service to members of Directorate.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, experience of delivering customer service excellence and a commitment to continuing professional development

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & benefits

• A minimum of 36 days annual leave per annum, pro rata (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Free foreign language, and Sign Language evening classes
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

About us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

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