Administrative Assistant

**Administrative Assistant - Cancer Research Horizons**:
£25,000 - £28,000 plus benefits

**Reports to**:Personal Assistant

**Directorate**:Research & Innovation

**Contract**:Permanent

**Hours**:Full time 35 hours per week

**Location**:Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge (This role is offered with low flexibility, we would expect you to be in the office a minimum of 2 days a week)

**Closing date**:06 July 2025 23:55

**At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.**

We’re looking for an experienced, organised and proactive individual to join Cancer Research Horizons as an Administrative Assistant.

You will provide administrative support to the Therapeutic Innovation team across our sites, working alongside the wider team to provide an efficient, comprehensive and proactive support function.

**About the team**

We are a small team of five who provide support for our five sites across the UK. The Administrative Assistant position is based at our Babraham laboratory which is our largest site at around seventy-five staff members. We have a strong sense of teamwork and collaboration, and our team thrives on mutual respect and open communication.

**What will I be doing?**:

- Provide administrative support and act as first point of contact to staff across all sites including, but not limited to; registering staff for conferences, courses, and training, purchasing scientific articles and textbooks, travel, card payments, and responding to general queries via the internal helpdesk system
- Provide administrative support to the Commercial Manager and Portfolio Lead including, but not limited to; managing complex scheduling for meetings, coordinating, data entry, and document management.
- Provide support to senior management including distributing communications and collating presentations
- Managing office and kitchen supply stock including unpacking and distributing those deliveries including post received
- Assist with event management for TI events
- Knowledgeable and well versed in TI policy to assist and enforce with staff
- Ad hoc duties as required

**What are you looking for?**:

- Excellent organisation and attention to detail
- Strong time-management skills and an ability to organise and coordinate multiple concurrent projects
- Strong problem solving and critical thinking ability
- Communicates professionally and effectively with colleagues
- Ability to work as part of a diverse team and also independently

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

**Bold**:Act with ambition, courage and determination

**Credible**:Act with rigour and professionalism

**Human**: Act to have a positive impact on people

**Together**:Act inclusively and collaboratively

We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

**What will I gain?**:
We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

**How do I apply?**:
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Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.