Senior Executive Assistant

🌟 Senior Executive Assistant 

Corporate HQ | Executive Admin Team 

💷 Salary from £31,336 

📍 Cross-site: Cheltenham & Gloucester (hybrid working) 

📄 Please note: this role is not on Agenda for Change terms & conditions 

Are you an exceptional Executive Assistant who thrives at the heart of leadership? 

Do you love bringing order to complexity, handling sensitive matters with absolute discretion, and being the calm, trusted presence senior leaders rely on?  

Gloucestershire Managed Services (GMS) is seeking an experienced Senior Executive Assistant to provide confidential, executive-level support to the Chair, Managing Director and Directors. 

This is a highly trusted, complex role at the centre of the organisation. You’ll manage senior diaries and meetings, prepare board and governance documentation, handle sensitive communications, and coordinate executive administration across the wider leadership team, while helping to shape and develop a high-performing Executive Admin function. 

🗂️ What you’ll be doing 

• Executive-level support to the Chair and Managing Director 
• Managing complex diaries, meetings, travel and briefing materials 
• Preparing and transcribing Board, SLT and SMT minutes and papers 
• Coordinating governance processes, trackers and follow-ups 
• Overseeing sensitive executive correspondence 
• Supervising and developing the Executive Admin Team 
• Driving consistent, high-quality admin systems across GMS 

🧩 About you 

• Proven experience supporting senior leaders at executive level 
• Exceptional organisational, communication and minute-taking skills 
• Absolute discretion and confidence handling sensitive matters 
• Strong Microsoft Office / O365 skills 
• Proactive, flexible and hands-on leadership style 
• Sound understanding of governance, confidentiality and data security 

Experience in the NHS or public sector is a plus — but not essential. 

👉 Apply now for a senior EA role where your expertise genuinely makes an impact. 

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