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Executive and Management Assistant

Support managers, meetings, documents, travel and projects.

  • Duration10 to 12 weeksat 8 to 10 hours a week
  • LevelIntermediateBusiness
  • AccessStart freeFull pathway in NIBS Plus
  • Workplace Lab6 tasksReal work, assessed
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Learners concentrating on a laptop screen together at a NIBS session.
6 Workplace Lab tasksReal work, assessed

What you'll do every day

  • Manage a manager's diary, priorities and travel
  • Prepare meeting packs, take minutes and follow up actions
  • Produce documents, presentations and correspondence
  • Handle confidential information with discretion
  • Coordinate small projects and events
  • Support recruitment and customer service when asked

Skills you'll build

5 skills, each with its own courses and the other careers that use it.

Tools you'll use

  • Outlook
  • Teams
  • Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
  • Travel and expense tools
  • Document management systems

Named as the tools the job uses. NIBS claims no relationship with any vendor.

Your pathway, step by step

10 to 12 weeks, at your own pace. Start free; NIBS Plus opens the full pathway and the Workplace Lab.

  1. Foundation Digital Workplace Foundation: the systems, files and communication every office runs on.
  2. Skill Courses The skills this role needs, one short course at a time.
  3. Workplace Lab 6 practical tasks in the software the job uses.
  4. Portfolio The documents, spreadsheets and records you produced, kept as evidence.
  5. NIBS Credential Assessed against the NIBS standard and recorded on your Skills Passport.
  6. Professional Recognition What membership, CPD and designations mean in your field.
  7. Formal Progression The Management Assistant occupational qualification, where it is offered.

The full Role Pathway for this career is in development. The courses below already cover its core skills and count toward it.

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Workplace Lab: the 6 tasks

Your simulated employer sends the brief and the files. You do the work in the real software; a facilitator assesses it against the NIBS standard.

  1. 1 Reorganise a week of a manager's diary around a crisis Brief, files, submission, feedback
  2. 2 Prepare a board meeting pack Brief, files, submission, feedback
  3. 3 Take the minutes and issue the actions within a day Brief, files, submission, feedback
  4. 4 Arrange a two-city trip within a budget Brief, files, submission, feedback
  5. 5 Produce a presentation from a rough brief Brief, files, submission, feedback
  6. 6 Coordinate a small event from venue to attendance register Brief, files, submission, feedback
How the Workplace Lab works

Where it leads

Job titles employers use for this work.

  • Executive Assistant
  • Management Assistant
  • Personal Assistant
  • Professional Secretary

Vacancies, learnerships and internships are posted in NIBS Campus as they come. NIBS does not guarantee placement.

Professional recognition

Learning can lead to a profession. Here is what that means for this career.

Professional body to be confirmed

NIBS names a body here only once it is the relevant one for this role. Membership of a professional body gives you a community, a standard of practice, continuing professional development and, in time, a designation.

CPD: recognition subject to approval. NIBS claims none until a body approves an activity.

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Formal progression

Where a formal qualification is offered, this career leads toward it. A separate programme with its own registration, assessment and fees, never included in NIBS Plus.

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