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Executive Assistant to CEO

London, Greater London (Hybrid)
£32,000 - £36,000 per year - FTE
Part-time (30 hours per week - Monday to Friday - ideally 9am start)
Permanent

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Job description

Leukaemia UK – Our Charity

We are a ‘small but mighty’ charity with one big ambition: to stop leukaemia devastating lives. Over the next 10 years we want to help save and improve the lives of more people with leukaemia through finding and funding life-changing research.

Despite progress in recent decades, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer every 16 minutes and survival rates are among some of the worst of any cancer.  And the physical and psychological impact can be lifelong. 

Our current strategy outlines our plan to increase our investment into ground-breaking world class research and policy development focused on improving access to kinder, more effective diagnosis, treatment and care for leukaemia and other blood cancers. To do this, we are embarking on a period of significant growth, investing strategically to grow our income, profile, influence, and engagement and impact.

As we begin the fourth year of this ambitious 5-year strategy, we are looking for a super organised and proactive Executive Assistant, with a passion for our cause, to support our Chief Executive Officer.

 

Team

We are a close-knit team, who are all passionate about Leukaemia UK and putting those affected by the disease at the heart of everything we do.  We are all focused on “keeping it real” with pragmatic, practical solutions, as well as ensuring that our charity gets the funding it needs to continue to help those diagnosed with leukaemia and other blood cancers.

From us you can expect fun and creativity, as well as great challenge and support. We may not be about the corporate life here, but we are all about delivering exceptional expertise and making a real change to people’s lives.

 

Leukaemia UK and You 

Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Executive Assistant will be responsible for the smooth running of the Chief Executive’s office.  You’ll ensure our CEO is prepared and has everything they need to undertake their role on a daily basis. You’ll ensure the smooth running of SLT meetings and work alongside our Governance and Operations Manager to support board meetings. As well as administrative support to the CEO you will provide administrative support to the Director of Finance and Resources, and the wider SLT as needed. 

We’re looking for someone who’s committed to contributing to the impact that our CEO has on our charity by working as part of a small team to enable them in their role. You’ll be confident and comfortable working autonomously when needed with the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment with conflicting priorities and pushing back when required. You’ll be skilled at building relationships across all levels and be a natural team player. Strong attention to detail, excellent planning, organisational and communication skills are key. You’ll consistently embody our values of being curious, collaborative and bold!

If, once you’ve read the pack, you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply.

 

What we are looking for in this role:

Essential Experience

  • Experience working in a Chief Executive’s office – providing a diary management and administrative support as well as coordinating meetings at a senior level.
  • Experience working with a senior management team and Trustees
  • Experience of dealing with and managing confidential and sensitive information.

Desirable Experience

  • Experience working in a charity or public sector organisation

Skills and Abilities

  • Highly proficient in all microsoft365 software in particular word, excel, powerpoint and curious to test and adopt new technology to continuously evolve and improve systems and processes.
  • Excellent and wide-ranging administrative, planning and organising skills, with the ability to manage and take responsibility for own workload within agreed priorities and deadlines
  • Ability to work efficiently and accurately with high level of attention to detail
  • Ability to use own initiative, remain calm under pressure and work to tight and changing deadlines
  • Proven problem solving skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively as part of a team
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to work with information of a sensitive nature, maintain confidentiality at all times 

 

Job Specifics

  • 30 hours per week (0.8 FTE) worked over 5 days, Monday to Friday, ideally with a 9am start time.
  • Location: We are very flexible! Our offices are based in Central London, and we operate hybrid working.  In this role you are required to work from the office at least 1 day per week, aligned to the CEO’s office days. 
  • FTE Salary range £32,000 - £36,000 dependent on experience (pro-rata for part time)  
  • We are proud of our benefits – see a summary on our website - see "Work With Us" 

Applications

If you feel you have the passion for our work and the right mix of skills, energy, and flair to embrace this broad and challenging role and enable our strategy to fly, then we would love you to apply. Please also see the full job description attached to the advert. To minimise unconscious bias, we use anonymous recruitment and are unable to consider direct applications. Please apply via the CharityJob website with your CV and covering letter by midnight Sunday 2nd February 2025.

  • First interviews will be held at our London offices on Tuesday 11th February 2025  
  • Second interviews will be held at our London Offices on Friday 21st February 2025

Our office address is: 26 Great Queen St, London WC2B 5BL

We look forward to hearing from you! 

Application resources
Posted by
Leukaemia UK View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50
Posted on: 17 January 2025
Closing date: 03 February 2025 at 00:30
Tags: Administration, Cancer, Office Management

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