Executive Assistant to Chief Executive Officer

Executive Assistant to the CEO

Hybrid: Home-based with regular time in Wrabness, Essex + occasional London travel

Part-time: Approximately 20 hours per week, spread across Monday-Friday

Reporting to: CEO

At Silver Cloud, we’re looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to the CEO to work closely with our CEO and wider Senior Leadership Team.

We’re looking for someone who loves creating order from complexity, can see what needs to happen before being asked and understands how to give a busy CEO the space and structure to focus on leading and growing a business.

You’ll take ownership of priorities, meetings, actions and logistics, combining high-level executive and Board support with personal administration and day-to-day organisation.

It’s a trusted, varied and hands-on role where discretion, judgement, commercial awareness and follow-through are just as important as exceptional organisation.

And because we’re always looking for smarter ways to work at Silver Cloud, we’d love someone who embraces technology, Microsoft 365 and AI to make executive support even more effective.

What will you be doing?

Executive & diary management

You’ll be the person helping to keep everything moving by:

• Taking ownership of a complex, fast-moving CEO diary.
• Balancing strategic priorities, meetings and personal commitments.
• Protecting the CEO’s time and confidently prioritising meeting requests.
• Spotting diary conflicts, dependencies and upcoming requirements before they become issues.
• Making sure meetings are properly prepared for, with the right information available in advance.
• Keeping track of priorities, commitments, deadlines and follow-ups.
• Handling sensitive and confidential information with complete discretion.

Board & leadership support

You’ll work closely with the CEO and wider leadership team to:

• Coordinate Board and Senior Leadership Team meetings.
• Support the preparation and collation of Board packs.
• Prepare agendas, briefing materials, presentations and executive updates.
• Maintain clear action and decision trackers.
• Follow up with action owners and make sure commitments don’t get lost.
• Coordinate leadership off-sites, workshops and other key business meetings.

Keeping actions moving

We’re looking for someone who doesn’t just record actions, but makes sure they happen.

You’ll create organised systems for meetings, decisions, deadlines and actions, helping the CEO start each day with a clear view of what needs attention and what’s coming next.

Travel, events & logistics

You’ll support business travel and associated arrangements where required, including itineraries and accommodation, as well as helping coordinate leadership events, off-sites and workshops.

Things change quickly, so you’ll be comfortable adapting plans, solving logistical issues and making sure arrangements remain practical and well organised.

Personal & family administration

This role also includes an element of trusted personal support, including:

• Coordinating personal and family commitments, appointments and logistics.
• Supporting personal and family travel arrangements where required.
• Coordinating household services, contractors and other administration.
• Managing important dates, reminders and commitments.
• Maintaining an integrated view of professional and personal priorities.

We’re particularly interested in someone who genuinely enjoys finding better ways of working.

You’ll be confident using Microsoft Outlook, Teams and the wider Microsoft 365 environment, alongside Planner or similar tools to organise priorities and actions.

We’d also love you to be comfortable using Microsoft Copilot or other AI productivity tools, identifying where repetitive administration can be simplified or streamlined and helping the CEO make better use of technology.

What are we looking for?

You’ll ideally already have experience as an Executive Assistant, Senior Executive Assistant or equivalent, supporting a CEO, Founder or other C-suite leader.

You'll also bring

• Experience owning a busy and complex executive diary.
• Board and/or Senior Leadership Team exposure.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how businesses operate.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Exceptional organisation and attention to detail.
• The confidence to prioritise, use judgement and make sensible decisions independently.
• Strong action management and follow-through.
• Confidence working with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent Microsoft 365 skills.
• Experience using technology to organise priorities, actions and workflows.
• High levels of discretion and confidentiality.
• A proactive mindset and the ability to stay one step ahead.

Experience within a growing SME, consultancy, technology or professional services environment would be particularly useful, as would experience supporting a CEO or Founder across both professional and personal responsibilities.

The working pattern

This is initially a part-time position of approximately 20 hours per week, with coverage required across all five working days.

We expect this to typically mean around four hours per day, Monday-Friday, with some flexibility around how those hours are structured according to the CEO’s diary and business priorities.

You'll work predominantly from home, with regular time alongside our CEO in Wrabness, Essex, plus occasional travel into London for meetings and business commitments.

Because of this, you'll need to live within a practical travelling distance of Wrabness.

Why Silver Cloud?

Established in 2009, Silver Cloud is a growing digital transformation consultancy specialising in HR, payroll and people technology.

We're a people-focused business with five values at the heart of how we work:

• Making a Difference – always adding value to each other and our clients
• Agile – adapting and supporting change
• Passionate – bringing positive energy to everything we do
• Progressive – constantly learning and growing to stay ahead
• Supportive – being kind, considerate and always looking for opportunities to help
• The Extras

Our benefits include

• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time hours
• Your birthday off
• Volunteering day
• Enhanced family, sick and bereavement leave
• Pension through salary sacrifice
• WeCare 24/7 support and Second Medical Opinion
• Flexibility from day one
• Profit share bonus scheme
• Refer-a-friend bonus
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Private healthcare
• And, most importantly, a genuinely supportive team

If you're an experienced EA who loves being the person behind the scenes making everything run brilliantly, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and tell us a little about the executive support you've provided and how you stay one step ahead in a fast-moving environment.