"Executive Assistant"

About the Role

We are seeking a professional and diligent Executive Assistant to provide comprehensive support to the Centre Lead and other PIs, ensuring the efficient day-to-day operation of the Centre for Experimental Medicine & Rheumatology. The role involves managing correspondence, meetings, and records; coordinating Centre activities; and serving as the main point of contact for internal and external stakeholders. The post holder supports the Centre Lead and other Academics, ensuring smooth communication, effective organisation, and confidentiality at all times.

About You

The ideal candidate will excellent communication skills, and the ability to build strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. As a trusted point of contact, the postholder must exercise a high level of confidentiality, diplomacy, reliability, agility, efficiency, accuracy and organisation to effectively manage competing priorities. Experience managing diaries, coordinating meetings. Experience organising events, travel, and logistics, including international arrangements. Experience in communications, preparing website and social media content to improve visibility of the department.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

EMR is a thriving multi-disciplinary interface for collaborative approach between basic scientist, clinicians, bioinformaticians and clinical team. The Centre is focused on to better understand the disease pathogenesis of several autoimmune diseases including RA. EMR is part of the newly awarded Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), the Musculoskeletal theme will encompass bio-informatician analysis, organ on-a chip development, small molecules testing, precision medicine trials, and development of a single cell platform.

About Queen Mary

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.

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.