Business Administrative Assistant, NIHR BioResource for Translational Research

Do you have great administration and organisational skills?  Interested in a role which is contributing to changing lives for the better? Looking for your next challenge?**

We are recruiting a Business Administrative Assistant, NIHR BioResource for Translational Research to join our small but busy team. This newly created role will assist the Business Team with HR and office administration duties and processes. This includes maintaining and updating holiday and sickness records, scheduling meetings and providing a basic reception service. You will need to be competent in standard software packages (Microsoft Office) and have a good understanding of confidentiality and data protection (GDPR) to succeed in this role. 

About NIHR BioResource:

Our mission is to facilitate human health research and its transformation into medical practice.

NIHR BioResource is a unique and powerful resource for studying disease mechanisms and for investigating the links between genes, the environment, health and disease, enabling scientific discoveries as well as facilitating translational medicine for the benefit of patients.

Further details on the NIHR BioResource, including some of our COVID-19 research studies, can be found on our website https://bioresource.nihr.ac.uk. 

About the job:

The role will help ensure the smooth running of our day-to-day administration operations, including general HR administration such as processing sickness, special leave and annual leave requests, updating staff records, coordinating induction and appraisal meetings, processing general human resources and office administration enquiries, and general reception duties.

The role holder will respond to general enquires in the HR Mailbox or on Teams and help to schedule meetings such as for new staff inductions and staff appraisals.

To be successful in this role, you ideally should:

- have excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills

- naturally work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail

- possess some experience in general administration

- be familiar with Microsoft Office applications; mainly Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

- relish working both independently and as part of a small team 

What we offer:

The University offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, family friendly policies, an attractive pension scheme (employer's contribution is 12.6%) and 36 days' annual holiday (inclusive of public holidays). We encourage career development by providing extensive training & development opportunities.

This appointment is part-time, 15 to 18 hours per week ideally across 3 days. Work-life balance is important, and we are open to discussion on flexible working. This role is office based.

The post is available on a fixed-term basis for two years in the first instance. NIHR BioResource is funded by the National Institute for Health & Care Research (NIHR).

Our offices are on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus CB2 0QQ (approximately 2 miles south of the city centre).

See the Further Information link below for full details and Person Specification.

We encourage informal queries about the job or the application process - please contact Chloe Caley-Light, Senior Business Administrator, Chloe.Caley-Light@bioresource.nihr.ac.uk.

Closing date: 23rd April 2025

Interviews: to be confirmed after closing date

Please ensure that you outline how you match the criteria for the post and why you are applying for this role on the online application form.

Please include details of your referees, including email address and phone number, one of which must be your most recent line manager

For information about how your personal data is used as an applicant, please see the section on Applicant Data (https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/hr-staff/hr-data/applicant-data) on our HR web pages.

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