Executive Assistant to CEO and Leadership Team

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

8/14/2025

Executive Assistant to CEO and Leadership Team

• Salary: c £50,000 per annum (negotiable depending upon experience)
• Contract: Permanent contract.
• Hours: Full time (35 hours). We will consider part time working requests (4 days per week)
• Location: We are London based (Farringdon). Our staff have the option to work up to 2 days per week from home.
• Closing: 09:30am (BST), Monday 8th September 2025.

The Nuffield Foundation is recruiting an Executive Assistant to work closely with, and support, our Chief Executive, Leadership Team, Trustees and members of our governance committees.  

The Executive Assistant will work at the intersection of strategic leadership and effective operational administration, working as a lynchpin within the organisation to provide high level administrative and operational support to the Nuffield Foundation’s Leadership Team (LT) and Chief Executive. They will be a trusted partner responsible for delivering high-level strategic, operational, and administrative support to the CEO and LT.  

This will include: 

• Scheduling, coordinating and supporting all Trustee and other Committee meetings and events, including the preparation of papers and agendas, taking detailed minutes and tracking agreed actions. 
• Managing the CEO’s diary, providing briefings and drafting documents and presentations as required. 
• Scheduling, planning and preparation of Leadership, staff and other large/organisation-wide meetings. 
• Managing the overall governance calendar, and key governance documents and records. 
• Working with the Directors of Strategy, Finance and HR on strategic and operational planning 
• Providing diary management and other general administrative support to members of the LT where required. 

This role acts an extension of the CEO’s office, ensuring alignment across leadership priorities, and effective and timely follow-through on strategic and operational initiatives. 

The successful candidate will be experienced in providing executive and administrative support to leaders, ideally within a similar organisation or setting. They will demonstrate professionalism and a strong work ethic, and will have excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to collaborate with a broad range of colleagues and use tact, discretion, influence and diplomacy when required. They will also have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to draft correspondence and short papers as well as take minutes of meetings. The ability to demonstrate political acumen and experience of providing company secretary/governance-type support is also desirable. 

About us

The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable foundation with a founding purpose to advance social well-being.  

We achieve this by funding and undertaking rigorous research, encouraging innovation, and supporting the use of sound evidence to improve people’s lives. We tackle pressing, complex questions. Our aim is to open up opportunities and to improve lives for individuals, families and communities, within a just and inclusive society. Our work addresses the inequalities, disadvantage, discrimination and vulnerabilities that people face, and considers the social and ethical implications of scientific and technological advances.   

We are the founder and co-funder of Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and the Ada Lovelace Institute.   

We value diversity in background, skills, perspectives and life experiences. Further information on the Foundation’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work can be found here. 

Further information and how to apply

For further information about the role, please click through to the vacancy listing on our website. The closing date for applications is 09:30am (BST) on Monday 8th September 2025.

We are committed to inclusive working practices and during the application process we commit to:   

• As a Disability Confident employer, we will offer an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the essential criteria for the job. 
• making any reasonable adjustments – for example providing documents in different formats, arranging for a sign language interpreter for interviews etc   
• reimbursing reasonable travel costs (and any childcare or care costs) for interviews where in-person attendance is required.   

Our benefits package includes:   

• 28 days holiday per annum and all public holidays (with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days).    
• A salary exchange pension scheme that offers employer contributions of up to 11%.    
• Life assurance scheme.    
• Family-friendly leave policies and enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity/partner leave.    
• Cycle to work scheme and loans towards season tickets.    
• Ongoing opportunities for learning and development (including options for coaching and mentoring, and 4 personal development/reading days each year).   
• Support with your physical, mental and financial wellbeing including an employee assistance provider, a private GP service, personal health reviews with Bupa, a will and funeral planning service and a staff network of trained Mental Health First Aiders.   
• Staff peer groups and social networks.