Executive Assistant

Organisation: Greenhouse Sports
Salary: £15,000 - £17,500 based on 0.5 FTE
Location: The Greenhouse Centre, Marylebone, London, NW1 5NS
Contract type: Fixed Term (Part time)
Closing date: 18 July 2025
Job Description: About Us

Established in 2002, Greenhouse Sports charity is leading the fight for a future where young people are supported and empowered, whatever their challenges, through sport. We coach and mentor young people from deprived backgrounds because the crisis for children living in deprivation is real and it is urgent.

Our magic is the Greenhouse coach, sports coach, trained mentor and role-model combined. Over the last 2 decades these coaches have worked with more than 50,000 secondary school children in London to help them fulfil their potential.

In 2020 we expanded our delivery beyond London for the first time, launching a programme of work to support children earlier in their lives at primary school. This expansion of services is critical to meeting the needs of young people growing up in poverty today, and we are committed to continue expanding these services in the years to come.

The Person

4.3 million children are growing up in poverty right now across the UK, and that number is only set to rise.

Are you passionate about bringing them opportunities to achieve better results, better jobs and better futures? Are you highly organised with experience of managing diaries, supporting important relationships, a natural multi-tasker and a passion to be part of a driven and change making organisation?

If the answer is yes, then our Executive Assistant role might be for you, so read on.

The Role

The successful candidate will be an experienced professional administrator, who will work closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team to provide support and administration to our executive function. Diary management will form an essential part of the role and you will also manage a wide array of external stakeholder relationships with our donors and partners and as a result will act as an ambassador for the charity.

A flexible approach with a mix of home and office working-our offices are based in the heart of Marylebone, London. This role will be on a 1 Year Fixed-Term Contract (Maternity Leave Cover) and part time (0.5 FTE) with a high degree of flexibility over how/when those hours are delivered.

Please note that screening calls will take place on Tuesday 22 July or Wednesday 23 July and that face to face interviews will take place on Thursday 24 July or Tuesday 29 July.

Please ensure you have provided both your CV and Cover Letter to support your application.

Greenhouse Sports is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children therefore applicants must be willing to undergo child protection training and screening including an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and obtaining satisfactory references from past employers.
How to apply: In order to apply, please use the below link: https://greenhousesports.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=827b4b5c-c510-412b-8fe2-70159fcdaac9