Executive Assistant
Employer: RNID
Location: Remote, UK. We come together in person three times a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events for sharing skills and ideas, hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues.
Working hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £37,000-£45,000
Closing date: 6th July 2025 11.50pm
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Location: Remote, UK.
Salary: £37,000-£45,000
Hours: 35 hrs per week
Contract type: Permanent
Application deadline: Please note due to high volume, the closing date has now been brought forward to 6th July 2025 11.50pm
Interview Dates: 21 July and 24 July
About RNID
We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.
Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.
We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.
RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We’re focused on making the greatest impact possible across the whole of the UK. We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.
Join our team
At RNID we have big, ambitious plans to make real impact for our communities. To do that, we need the right people in our team.
We are a remote working organisation, with colleagues based across the UK in locations from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and everywhere in between. We come together in person three times a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events for sharing skills and ideas, hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues. Working in this way, we bring together the best of digital and in-person working in a modern, progressive organisation. We know our colleagues have responsibilities and interests outside work and we want to support that, which is why we offer a sector-leading flexible working policy to all our staff from day one.
Our values are at the heart of how we work and communicate with each other, and the outside world. We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious and passionate in everything we do.
Does that sound like a good fit? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you…
The Executive Assistant will focus and lead on:
1. Developing this new role so it best supports the organisation and its leadership well, enabling the acceleration of charitable delivery and programmes.
2. Supporting our Governance Lead and the Senior Leadership Team with administrative and organisational tasks and projects
You will be responsible for…
Providing executive support to members of the Senior Leadership Team, including inbox and diary management
Supporting compliance with legal obligations and good governance, developing processes and communications to assist with documentation of decision making and adherence to legal requirements.
Organising meetings for the Leadership and Board.
Checking organisational inboxes, ensuring messages are responded to in a timely manner, escalating urgent queries as required.
Overseeing internal administrative systems used to hold organisational information, ensuring these are proportionate and easy to use.
What you will be doing
You will:
1. You will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and Governance Lead, taking initiative to see where you can offer administrative support that assists with delivery.
2. You will undertake a variety of tasks from raising purchase orders, managing inboxes, organising meetings and ensuring decisions are well documented.
3. You will develop agile processes for recording and updating key organisational information and documentation.
4. You will maintain our policy register, and gather key organisational information for reporting purposes, including managing our internal incident reporting system.
You
You will have demonstratable experience of working for a Chief Executive and Senior Leadership Team, managing multiple diaries, conflicting meeting requests and excellent prioritisation and communication skills.
You will be able to evidence experience of communicating effectively with a range of internal and external senior stakeholders, including executive level teams. You will have experience of quickly building rapport with others recognising their priorities and ways of working.
You will be a motivated self-starter, with demonstrable experience of taking initiative and providing executive level support in fast moving organisation, with a track record of doing this to a high standard.
You will be able to manage conflicting priorities and adapt to organisational ways of working, whilst bringing your own ideas and suggestions for enhancing organisational efficiency.
You will have a can-do attitude, with an ability to problem-solve and find solutions that work well for everyone involved.
You will be confident working in a remote environment, communicating with executive level teams and see how your role integrates into the smooth and efficient running of the organisation.
You will have experience using Microsoft applications for your work and using these to communicate well with others.
You are confident, purpose driven and have a knowledge or willingness to learn about deaf culture.
You will be willing to participate in our residential Staff Summit three times/year and attend other face to face meetings as required.
Qualifications
There are no specific qualifications needed for this role.
What we can offer you
· Your benefits include:
28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
Fully remote working with no core hours
£26 remote working allowance every month
In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions
Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
Access to an event ticketing platform
Our commitment to diversity
We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.
Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.
RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.
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