Executive Assistant to Chief Operating Officer
Purpose and Scope:
The Rothschild Foundation, rooted in over 70 years of family leadership, is dedicated to making long term impactful contributions to the arts, local communities and the environment, with Waddesdon Manor as the emblem of our mission. The Foundation delivers funding programmes both locally, in its home country of Buckinghamshire, and nationally, across the UK. Waddesdon Manor is a historic house open to the public. Created by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild from 1874, it is home to the Rothschild Collection and was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1957 and is managed in partnership with the Rothschild Foundation. It currently welcomes almost 350,000 visitors a year to the property, just over a third of whom visit the House.
The Role:
The role will focus on providing support to the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Rothschild Foundation -who has key responsibility for all commercial activity in addition to property, health & safety, security, transport and sustainability. Both the role of the COO and EA to the COO are new roles within the organisation, and as such, the postholder will have the scope to develop this role and its responsibilities, in agreement with the COO and EA to the Chief Executive.
This will involve substantial executive and administrative support to the COO. It will also involve close liaison and colla...