Team Administrator, Cancer Research
Cancer Grand Challenges
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1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London )
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London )
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of supporting senior staff including diary management and working with external travel and accommodation agencies to book travel
- Excellent administrative skills including meetings logistics, including development of minutes and actions
- Basic finance administration skills including processing expenses, raising purchase orders and processing invoices
- Experience of working within a project support capacity for a team or initiative, including basic knowledge of project planning and project delivery and associated documentation
- Experience of supporting project reporting including collation and coordination of multiple data sources and information
- Strong communication skills, including supporting the development of documents and coordinating input from multiple stakeholders
- Excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Office 365
- If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week OR Part Time either 21 or 28 hours per week
- We are looking for an organised, proactive and diligent Team Administrator to join Cancer Grand Challenges
- In this role you will provide administrative and project support for the whole team
- This will include supporting the Director of CGC, Leadership team and team members with diary management and travel arrangements
- Further to this you will provide administrative and logistical support to our funding and advisory committees and support the smooth running of our governance and reporting processes
- This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced administrator, who thrives in a busy and fast passed environment
- Support the Director of Cancer Grand Challenges and wider leadership team, including diary management, travel planning (national and international) and arrangements and general administrative support
- Working with the Programme Manager, provide administrative support for team HR processes
- Working with the Programme Manager and others, support team finance processes including invoicing and processing payments
- Support Cancer Grand Challenges governance functions including organising team and initiative meetings, developing and coordinating papers and minutes and actions
- Working with the Programme Manager support the overall operational planning and delivery of the initiative, including monitoring of progress against plans
- Working with the Programme Manager, support team reporting processes including monitoring of KPIs and metrics
- Providing logistical support for meetings and panels including meeting room, travel and accommodation bookings and assisting with pre- and post-meeting administrative and logistical duties
Application process
- Closing date: 29 April 2026 23:55 externally
- Interview date: W/C 11 May for screening calls, 20 and 21 May 2026 in person interviews at Stratford, London, head office
- We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively
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 long-standing 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.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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