Executive Assistant to CPO

About the role

Save the Children International is looking for an Executive Assistant to its Chief People Officer (CPO). The role provides executive, administrative, organisational and coordination support to the CPO and the wider People leadership team, freeing the CPO to focus on strategic priorities. It is a permanent position, remote with flexible working options, open to any approved SCI office within 3 hours of UTC, and requires the right to work in the host country.

Key responsibilities

• Provide proactive executive support, manage a complex diary and inbox, and prepare agendas, briefing packs, presentations and reports.
• Plan domestic and international travel, including flights, accommodation, visas and itineraries.
• Coordinate People Leadership Team meetings, forums, town halls and workshops, including papers, notes and action tracking.
• Maintain departmental distribution lists, contact databases and information systems, and support newsletters, team updates and recognition activities.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion, process invoices and procurement transactions within delegated budgets, and prepare expense claims.
• Support onboarding of the CPO's direct reports and foster departmental engagement.

Required profile

• Demonstrable track record providing executive support to a senior leader.
• Experience managing complex, multi-time-zone diaries and high-volume inboxes.
• Extensive experience planning complex domestic and international travel, including visas.
• Experience supporting meetings, including agenda preparation, paper coordination, minute-taking and action tracking.
• Ability to handle highly confidential information.

Required skills

• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with attention to detail.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including drafting, editing and proofreading documents and reports.
• Additional languages are desirable.