Legacy Operations Assistant, Cancer Research
£22.9k
More information about location
Office located in Stratford, London
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£22.9k
More information about location
Office located in Stratford, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- High level of IT literacy, including good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages
- Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail
- Excellent administration skills and accurate record keeping
- Able to prioritise day-to-day tasks and plan to maximise most effective use of time to deliver against deadlines to a high standard
- Self-motivated and solutions focused, finds solutions to and root-causes of problems with direction and support from colleagues
- Proven experience of managing administration in a busy environment with flexibility in reacting to stakeholder needs
- A strong team player with ability to build effective relationships with internal stakeholders across departments
- Confident written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Legacy Operations Assistant
- In this role, we need you to provide exceptional operational and administrative support to the legacy product team, and to undertake all scheduled operational duties as required
- Distributing and scanning of daily incoming post to relevant staff members
- Creating and allocating new Legacy cases to the Legacy Case Management Team
- Creating new solicitor records on the website and CRM system, and informing Finance Team
- Reconciling and inputting income data (cheques and bank transfers) received by the Legacy team
- Responding to queries from all Legacy audiences, via email and telephone
- Maintain data quality – merging records and other data processing tasks as required (First Class and Siebel)
- Raising Purchase Orders and raising invoices when required
- Building and maintaining excellent knowledge of Cancer Research UK’s Will-Writing Services, Case Administration and associated systems and processes
- Supporting project work relating to Legacy operations, by sharing knowledge of internal processes
- Responsible for monitoring and ordering materials, maintaining and tracking stock levels as required, ensuring key internal stakeholders are informed
- Reports to: Senior Legacy Operations Manager
Application process
- Closing date: Tuesday 10 June 2025, 23:55
- CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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