Personal Assistant

Personal Assistant (PA)
Contract type: Permanent or fixed-term contract (see roles below)
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Location: Hybrid between home and our London office. These roles have an enhanced attendance requirement to come into the office, details of which are listed against each role below. You are also able to attend more frequently should you wish, as there is space available for you to work.
Salary range: £30,500 - £33,500

At Macmillan Cancer Support, we know that outstanding support starts behind the scenes too. Our Personal Assistants play a vital role in helping senior leaders and teams work effectively, efficiently, and compassionately — enabling us to deliver even greater support for people living with cancer.

As our organisation continues its ambitious mission to spark a revolution in cancer care, we are looking for a number of brilliant PAs across a variety of areas to join us and support our leaders and teams to do their best work. We are keen to connect with talented, organised, and proactive PAs who would be interested in supporting our senior leaders in:

• People & Culture (Permanent, 1-2 days a week in the London office)
• Partnerships (12 months fixed term contract, 2 days a week in the London office)
• Technology (Contract type and office requirements TBC)

About the roles

Our PAs provide high-quality administrative and organisational support to senior stakeholders, helping to coordinate busy schedules, looking ahead to anticipate challenges, manage competing priorities, and ensure smooth day-to-day operations. For some teams this will also include interaction with external parties and stakeholders, ensuring that Macmillan is represented to the highest of standards.

While responsibilities will vary depending on the team, duties may include:

• Complex diary and inbox management
• Coordinating meetings, travel, and events
• Preparing presentations, reports, and documentation
• Supporting leadership meetings and taking minutes/actions
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Managing confidential and sensitive information professionally
• Helping teams stay organised, efficient, and connected

About you

We’d love to hear from individuals who are:

• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
• Calm and adaptable in fast-paced environments
• Strong communicators with excellent interpersonal skills
• Confident managing multiple priorities simultaneously
• Proactive, collaborative, and solutions-focused
• Experienced supporting senior leaders or executive teams
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office and digital collaboration tools
• Previous experience in a PA, Executive Assistant, Team Assistant, or administrative support role would be highly beneficial

In return, we offer a range of benefits including:

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days
• Pension matched up to 7.5%
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more

Recruitment process

Application deadline: 23:59 on Wednesday 1st July
Interview dates: TBC

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. 

We are an organisation that is committed to setting candidates up for success. So we can support you to be at your best during the application or selection process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice, or a conversation on reasonable adjustments.  

Interested in future opportunities?

If now isn’t quite the right time for you but you like the sound of who we are and what we do, please connect with our Talent Acquisition team by contacting Michael Willman, MWillman@macmillan.org.uk to be considered for future PA opportunities with us.

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.