Administrative Assistant

About the Role

The postholder will provide essential administrative support to the Professor of Genomic Diversity and his wider research team, ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day operations and enabling the successful delivery of research projects. We are an ambitious, curious and enthusiastic international team, that promotes scientific excellence and career development in the context of happy family, and other demands.

Working closely with the Professor of Genomic Diversity and the Programme Manager, you will take responsibility for core administrative tasks, helping to ensure efficient, high-quality support.

About You

The postholder will provide comprehensive administrative, operational and financial support to the Professor of Genomic Diversity and the wider Institute. The role involves managing the Professor’s diary, coordinating meetings and travel, preparing correspondence and documentation, and organising internal and external events and activities.

The postholder will also provide operational support through day-to-day financial administration, including expenses, purchase orders and invoices, as well as recruitment administration across the full employee lifecycle. They will act as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensure smooth coordination of activities, follow up on outstanding actions and escalate issues when necessary.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) aims to improve health through data-driven medicine. PHURI’s multidisciplinary teams will address interconnected research themes including Omics Science; MedTech and Devices and Therapeutic Innovation - transcending the existing boundaries between disciplines.

These themes will come together to create a complete journey from disease identification, through to translation with the development of therapies, devices or clinical intervention to ensure we improve disease prevention, prediction, personalisation of treatment and disease management to improve patient outcomes. 

PHURI builds on the close partnerships between Queen Mary University of London and Barts NHS Trust, continuing our shared focus on accelerating the latest healthcare innovations from the bench to bedside. Working closely with Barts Health NHS Trust we will ensure that our research is focused on where it is most needed. Using real-world clinical data, we will drive the development and targeted prescription of treatments based on patients’ needs. 

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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