Team PA

Advert Close date: 19th November 2025
Team PA - Portfolio Operations at The Crown Estate

Purpose of Role:
The Team PA will provide exceptional support to senior stakeholders within the Portfolio Operations and Property Management team. Acting as an ambassador and first point of contact, the Team PA will ensure smooth operations and contribute to the delivery of The Crown Estate's enterprise priorities.

Context of Opportunity / Main Accountabilities:
As a Team PA, you will play a vital role in supporting the Head of Portfolio Operations and their team. Your responsibilities will include managing complex diaries, booking travel arrangements, drafting agendas, and organizing events. You will be proactive in anticipating the needs of the team and resolving conflicts, ensuring stakeholders are well-prepared for meetings.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering high-standard PA support to the Head of Portfolio Operations and their team.
• Managing complex diaries, resolving conflicts, and ensuring stakeholders are prepared for meetings.
• Booking and managing national and international travel arrangements efficiently.
• Drafting agendas, arranging pre-meets, and sourcing briefing documents.
• Attending meetings, taking minutes, and ensuring timely distribution and follow-up.
• Organizing internal and external events, including venue finding and logistics management.
• Reviewing and improving processes to enhance service delivery.
• Providing professional first point of contact for client/customer interactions.
• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders to encourage cross-enterprise knowledge sharing.
• Supporting EA/TC/PA in times of absence.

Most Important Skills Based Requirements:
To excel in this role, you should have:

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work with minimal guidance, proactively setting and working to deadlines.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Awareness and sensitivity to team well-being.
• Confidentiality and discretion in all aspects of the role.
• Understanding of enterprise priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Solutions-focused approach and confidence in providing challenges where appropriate.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build strong business relationships.
• Commitment to professional development to enhance knowledge and skills.
• Intermediate/advanced skills in Microsoft Office.

Join The Crown Estate and be part of a team dedicated to delivering exceptional support and contributing to the success of our Portfolio Operations. Apply now to make a significant impact and help shape the future of our operations.

Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme
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We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

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The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.

It includes some of central London's best places to work, shop and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK's world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.