Institute Business Coordinator (Maternity Cover)

Queen Mary University of London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious university in London is seeking an Institute Business Coordinator for one year to cover maternity leave. The role involves providing senior-level operational support to management, ensuring compliance and business continuity, and coordinating local projects and events. Ideal candidates will have experience in senior administrative support within a complex environment. The position offers competitive pay and various employee benefits, including professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Generous pension scheme

30 days leave

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience providing senior administrative or operational support within a complex organisation.
• Experience managing a sensitive diary and business-related activities.
• Experience servicing significant meetings, including paper preparation and minute taking.

Responsibilities

• Offer senior-level operational support to the Institute Strategic Manager.
• Ensure local business continuity and compliance.
• Coordinate local projects and high-level strategic events.

Skills

Senior administrative support

Diary management

Meeting preparation and documentation

Job description

Overview

Applications are sought for a maternity cover position for one year as Institute Business Coordinator at Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. The post holder will offer support to the BCI's Institute Strategic Manager and Institute Director, providing senior-level operational support, ensuring local business continuity, providing oversight of compliance requirements, and coordination of local projects and priorities, including high level strategic events.

Responsibilities

• Offer senior-level operational support to the Institute Strategic Manager and Institute Director.
• Ensure local business continuity.
• Provide oversight of compliance requirements.
• Coordinate local projects and priorities, including high-level strategic events.
• Manage sensitive diary and business management activities in a complex environment.
• Prepare papers and take/write up minutes for significant meetings.

Qualifications

• Experience providing senior administrative or operational support within a complex organisation, ideally in Higher Education or a comparable sector.
• Experience of managing a sensitive diary and business management activities in a complex environment.
• Experience of servicing meetings of a significant nature, including the preparation of papers and taking and writing up minutes.

About Barts Cancer Institute (BCI)

BCI is a Cancer Research UK Centre of Excellence whose work aims to transform the lives of those with and at risk of cancer through innovative research in the laboratory, in patients and in populations. BCI is internationally renowned in many areas of cancer research and it combines ground-breaking basic research with the expertise of clinicians and clinician scientists from the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine and the Barts NHS Trust to achieve improvements in cancer patient care. BCI is also a partner in the CRUK City of London Major Centre (together with UCL, Kings and the Francis Crick Institute) which is a Centre of Excellence in Biotherapeutics. BCI is committed in supporting and developing future cancer researchers through its extensive postgraduate training.

About Queen Mary University of London

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Equal Opportunity

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.