Executive Assistant - FCR and I&E | Full-time, Permanent

Location(UK): Office Hybrid* - London
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Salary: £31,918 per annum (London)
Benefits: Read more about the excellent benefits we offer
Contract type: Permanent
Travel: Occasional travel across the UK (including Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales)
Closing date: 23:59, Sunday 9 February 2025

Join us and use your skills, knowledge, passion and energy to help us achieve a future free from arthritis.

About the role

An exciting new opportunity has opened at the UK’s largest arthritis charity, Versus Arthritis for an experienced Executive Assistant. The role report to the Senior Executive Administration Manager within the Chief Executive Office and work with them to ensure the delivery of an effective and seamless secretariat function for Senior Leadership Team meetings.

You will be an executive administrator and will be responsible for delivering exceptional proactive executive support to the charity’s Directors of (1) Income & Engagement and (2) Finance & Corporate Resources.

You will also oversee the delivery of a secretariat function for the charity’s expert committees and advisory groups.

About you

If your knowledge, skills and experience include the following then we’d love to hear from you:

Exceptional administration management and organisational skills.
Self-motivated and a proactive approach.
Track record of building strong relationships with colleagues and key stakeholders at all levels.
High standards of discretion, diplomacy and confidentiality.

*As a hybrid worker the expectation is that you will spend around 40% of your working time in our office spaces or working in community settings. As an inclusive employer we will consider home-based working for anyone where office-based hybrid working would be a barrier to being able to work for us, for example for someone living with a long-term health condition or disability.

Download the job description and person specification for the Executive Assistant - Income & Engagement and Finance Corporate Resources role (Word 49.9 KB).

Benefits

Your excellent benefits include:

Flexible hours, environments and working practices to promote a healthy work/life balance.
Health and wellbeing support – including the Employee Assistance Programme (free confidential 24/7 support with mental health, legal and financial queries).
Simplyhealth cash plan.
Supportive and inclusive culture, with a wide range of employee networks and support groups available to join.
Learning and personal development opportunities.
Competitive annual leave, with the option to buy/sell up to five days per year.
Generous pension plan, with employer contribution of up to 10%.
Life Assurance plan (4 x salary).

How to apply

You must be based, and hold the right to work, in the UK to apply for this position.

To apply you MUST submit:

a concise, up-to-date CV
along with a completed Application form (Word 41.2KB) demonstrating how you meet the key requirements set out in the job description and person specification for the Executive Assistant - Income & Engagement and Finance Corporate Resources role (Word 49.9 KB). All sections must be completed.

Email both documents as Word or PDF attachments by 23:59 hours, Sunday 9 February 2025 to recruitment@versusarthritis.org. If you have a health condition that prevents you from following the steps above, please email us regarding alternative ways to apply. 

Application deadline and shortlisting 

We advise candidates to apply early as we reserve the right to close applications ahead of this date.  
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

We do not wish to receive contact from agencies or media sales. 

Interview

Date to be confirmed at Versus Arthritis London Office.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee you will be offered an interview if you disclose a disability and demonstrate sufficient evidence within your application that you meet the essential criteria for this role. We will also make any reasonable adjustments you may require for your interview.

About us

We have made a commitment in our Diversity and Inclusion Strategy to increase the diversity of our charity and we welcome candidates from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees, volunteers and trustees to represent the broad diversity of the communities of which we are a part.

There are over 10 million people living with arthritis. That’s one in six, with over half of those living in pain every single day. The impact is huge as the condition slowly intrudes on everyday life – affecting the ability to work, care for a family, to move free from pain and to live independently. Yet arthritis is often dismissed as an inevitable part of ageing or shrugged off as ‘just a bit of arthritis’. We don’t think that this is OK. Versus Arthritis is here to change that.

Versus Arthritis is committed to keeping children, young people and vulnerable adults safe from harm. During the recruitment process we will undertake safer recruitment practices and relevant checks to ensure applicants are suitable to work with children, young people and vulnerable adults.