Executive Assistant

The British Museum is a world-renowned institution where history, culture, and innovation converge. We are currently seeking a highly organized and proactive Executive Assistant to join our team. This role involves dedicated support to both the Finance Director and the Director of Public Engagement, each accounting for half of the role's responsibilities. The role: As an Executive Assistant, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the efficient management of the Directors' time, correspondence, and administrative responsibilities. With no existing secretariat or administrative support in place for these roles, your contribution will be essential to the smooth running of their day-to-day operations and to the wider success of the Museum's leadership team. This is a unique opportunity to work at the heart of the organization, supporting two critical roles in the Museum's senior leadership and helping drive forward key strategic objectives. Job requirements: Key areas of responsibility include providing proactive diary and travel management for two senior leaders, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, supporting stakeholder engagement through high-quality communications and presentation materials, coordinating meetings and events, managing logistics and follow-up actions with care and attention, overseeing smooth office operations including onboarding, facilities, and internal communications, and leading on compliance and project support, including health and safety duties and year-end finance processes. Benefits: Joining our team comes with numerous benefits. You will be part of a prestigious institution, enjoying 25 days of annual leave (rising to 30 days after long service) plus 2.5 privilege days, in addition to bank holidays. We offer a generous civil service pension scheme, complimentary exhibition tickets, free entry at paid national museum and gallery exhibitions, free and discounted entry to international cultural organizations, interest-free travel loans and rental deposit loans, an Employee Assistance Programme for mental health support, a 1-hour paid lunch break, a subsidized staff canteen, and discounts on gift shop purchases. Additional information: The Museum adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants. If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of to support you with your application, please provide details to [email removed - click apply for more details].