Executive Assistant (Welsh speaking)
We are looking for an organised and proactive Welsh Speaking Executive Assistant to join our secretariat team, providing high-quality support to senior managers and key governance groups across the organisation.
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing executive and secretariat support to designated Directors and His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales (HMCI). They will manage diaries, correspondence and meetings, including papers, minutes and actions. They will also support wider corporate and safeguarding administration.
Key tasks include:
- Providing direct support to designated Directors and His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education and Training in Wales (HMCI)
- Providing secretarial support for meetings – including the programming of meeting times and dates in discussion with the Planning team, the collation and dissemination of papers, taking of minutes and management of actions
- Management and co-ordination of designated Directors’ / HMCI’s calendars, emails and hardcopy correspondence, and travel arrangements and subsistence claims
- Managing domestic arrangements for meetings and committees
- Updating documentation relating to non-executive directors’ expenses and payments
- Coordinating information and papers for consideration and presentation by management
- Supporting the administration of Child Protection log and related tasks, including ensuring safeguarding alerts are directed to the safeguarding lead officers
- Supporting the management of team update meetings in relation to safeguarding
- Supporting management in the collation and proofing of corporate documents
- Administration of statutory proposals on school re-organisation
- Supporting project management, including servicing of advisory group meetings, project team meetings and Away Days
- Providing cover for other members of the secretariat during periods of absence
- To undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required by managers
Duration: Permanent
Salary: £30,769 – £35,014
Deadline to apply: 10am 24 February 2026