Institute Business Coordinator (Maternity Cover)

About the Role
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.

About You
Essential requirements for this post include experience providing senior administrative or operational support within a complex organisation, ideally in Higher Education or a comparable sector. Experience of managing sensitive diary and business management activities in a complex environment, including experience in a senior admin/personal assistant role is essential as well as experience of servicing meetings of a significant nature, including the preparation of papers and taking and writing up minutes.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project
Barts Cancer Institute (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
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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