Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job ref: 204132
About the role
Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for an Executive Assistant to join our Gloucester office.
In this role you will provide administrative support to Deputy Group Chief Executive and Managing Director for UKGI.
Why join us?
Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK’s top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.
What you’ll be doing
Diary & Travel Management - Coordinate complex schedules, commitments, and national/international travel for Directors.
Communication & Meeting Coordination - Draft emails, follow up on actions, and organise/minute internal and external meetings—including those with VIP stakeholders.
Reporting & Documentation - Prepare reports, presentations, SOAPs, and documents for leadership and board-level committees.
Leadership Team Support - Deliver high-quality secretariat support: manage agendas, materials, minutes, and track actions for UKGI leadership meetings.
Admin, Finance & HR Support - Oversee departmental expenses, process expense claims and payments, support event planning, and maintain accurate HR records for the leadership team.
What you’ll need to have
Proven track record of strong relationship management with senior executives, Non-Executive Directors and key external stakeholders including customers and brokers
Self-starter, able to manage own workload
Appropriate IT skills, including powerpoint, word and excel
Ability to minute technical and wide-ranging topics
High level of personal organisation and accuracy
Strong communication and influencing skills
Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times
Experience in a financial services environment
What makes you stand out
Experience in an insurance environment
What we offer
A competitive salary - let’s discuss it
Hybrid working
Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
£200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
Employee Assistance Programme
Full study support to gain professional qualifications
Access to virtual GP
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Hear from the hiring manager
“I see this opportunity as part of a partnership in running my role. With full access to my work and the leadership team meetings the role plays a key part of our leadership team effort in the UK, as we grow our business to give more to good causes. Alongside supporting our Deputy Group CEO, who runs all our General Insurance businesses, it’s a diverse, fast-paced, and high-impact position.”
About us
Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.
As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

IF YOU NEED ANY ADDITIONAL SUPPORT DURING THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS, THEN PLEASE LET US KNOW.

• Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26

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