ACHA Executive Assistant

About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and organised Executive Assistant to support the Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA). This role will involve direct support to Professors Gordon and Sampson, focusing on various administrative and operational tasks essential for the smooth running of the centre.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a brand-new team and a brand-new research centre, hosted at Whipps Cross Hospital, and anchored to the Barts Health ambition to transform Whipps Cross to become a world class centre of excellence, leveraging academic collaborations with Queen Mary University London and other partners to achieve outstanding care and support patients within North East London to live healthier lives for longer.

The post holder will be expected to be motivated and have excellent inter-personnel skills to engage with senior academic and clinical staff and professional service colleagues to understand their goals, challenges and help address them.

In return we offer an excellent learning environment, with opportunities to develop your career in a collaborative, pioneering and dynamic team. This is a unique opportunity to put your skills into practice to help to make a real difference to people's lives across northeast London and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate the diaries of Professors Sampson and Gordon, scheduling meetings and appointments efficiently.
• Act as an informed gatekeeper for ACHA, ensuring relevant information is communicated effectively.
• Support day-to-day operations of the group, including organising and facilitating meetings and events.

About You
With previous experience of diary management, you are an organised and proactive professional with A-Level (or equivalent) qualifications or equivalent experience. Your excellent attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills enable you to manage tasks efficiently in a busy environment. You thrive in collaborative settings and possess strong team-working abilities.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
The Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing (ACHA) is a pioneering and really exciting collaborative venture between Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London funded by Barts Charity. The goal is to create an internationally leading centre for healthy ageing.

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.

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