Job Title: Personal Assistant to the Strategic Leadership Team
Salary: £25,200 – £31,800
Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid (expectation of 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Personal Assistant to support our Strategic Leadership Team and ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About The Role
As a Personal Assistant, you will be the right hand to our Strategic Leadership Team (SLT), providing comprehensive administrative support and managing a variety of tasks to help them stay focused on their strategic goals. Your role will be crucial in maintaining efficiency and productivity within the team by:
- Assisting in managing SLT operations, including budgeting and expense tracking.
- Supporting meetings with minutes, actions and preparing materials,
- Manage document controls and maintain and organise key documents and records, ensuring accessibility and confidentiality.
About You
You will possess exceptional organisational skills, a keen attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently. You are highly motivated, proactive, and committed to supporting the SLT in achieving their strategic goals.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being
12th, June although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to commence on the week of
23rd June.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
