Executive Assistant, Francis Crick
To the General Counsel & Company Secretary
£46.6-53.6k
4 days a week in office
Biomedical research institute
Job no longer available
Biomedical research institute
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£46.6-53.6k
4 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To discover without boundaries.
Role
Who you are
- Track record of supporting senior leaders at executive level
- Proven ability to build credible relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, including Board members and senior executives
- Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks, schedules, and projects with precision and efficiency
- Ability to use initiative and have the confidence to challenge previous ways of doing things
- The ability to deal tactfully with others to resolve conflicts, with a highly developed emotional and political intelligence
- Resilient under pressure and able to work independently in a highly collaborative and flexible way, reacting quickly to changing circumstances
- Experience in a similar environment of the administration and management of corporate governance and practice. (Desirable)
What the job involves
- Reports to: Rahul Saxena
- We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant to support our General Counsel & Company Secretary (GC & CoSec) in a high-profile role within our legal team
- This role is pivotal in providing professional, administrative, and logistical support to the GC and their leadership team, enabling them to perform their roles effectively. You will act as a dedicated aide to the GC, coordinating their agenda across a wide range of responsibilities, providing advice, guidance, and briefings, and proactively managing their time, preparation, and planning
- Additionally, you will take forward projects on their behalf, oversee communications, execute key plans and decisions, and manage stakeholder liaison, including with the GC’s direct reports and other senior colleagues and stakeholders
- Occasionally, you will support the general counsel team by taking minutes for Executive boards when required
- This is an excellent opportunity for development, and we are looking for a highly engaged and proactive individual with previous experience supporting senior leaders at the executive level
- To be successful, you will bring your experience of building strong relationships, navigating high-pressure environments, and bring gravitas to the role with a can -do approach
- Provide full administrative support, maintain systematic oversight of all live and pending Director priorities and commitments, ensuring effective organisation and preparation
- Manage the GC's email inbox, including drafting replies, promoting actions and replying on behalf of the GC where appropriate
- Build strong relationships with the GC's direct reports and senior colleagues, advising and guiding on approach and process
- Accompany the GC at meetings and events, owning follow-up activities and ensuring successful outcomes
- Supporting the organisation of the Board and committee meetings; proactively preparing briefing documents and ensuring all paperwork is provided in a timely manner
- Supporting the GC and governance colleagues with the administration and delivery of legal & governance priorities and projects
Application process
- Closing Date: 27/May/2025 23.59 GMT
- First stage Interview via zoom - week commencing 2nd June 2025
- Second stage interview with role based assessment - week commencing 9 June 2025
- Team meet and greet - week commencing 16 June 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Francis Crick Institute was founded in 2015 through the merger of the MRC's National Institute for Medical Research and CRUK's London Research Institute. Its mission is to push the boundaries of our understanding of how life works, and it is the largest single-site biomedical research institute in Europe.
One of the Institute's strengths is its ability to collaborate extensively with external research groups, boasting partnerships in more than 90 countries. These collaborations, however, pose data protection challenges due to the need to transfer vast amounts of sensitive information across borders. The Institute has addressed this by developing its own Trusted Research Environment toolkit, which allows remote teams to share data securely and compliantly in the cloud.
The institute secured £1 billion in funding back in 2022, and is maximising its effectiveness through the BRIDGE network and investments in AI and machine learning. A notable example is Google’s subsidiary DeepMind establishing a research lab within the institute to enhance biology and genomics research.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2022
$1.3bn
GRANT
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- 28 days of holiday each year, plus three additional days (usually taken over Christmas) and bank holidays
- Defined contribution pension scheme, with the Crick contributing between 3% - 16% of salary
- Life assurance
- Season ticket/car parking loan
- Annual leave purchase
- Childcare support allowance
- Back-up dependent care
- Discounted annual gym membership
- Bike to Work scheme
- Payroll giving
- Shopping discounts
Company HQ
Somers Town, London, UK
Leadership
Paul Nurse
(CEO)The first Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute. Was previously President of Rockefeller University in New York. In 2001 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine as part of a team that discovered the role of protein molecules that control the duplication of cells.
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