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Junior Personal Assistant

London
Full-time
Permanent employee

The Role's Purpose

As an Admin Support Assistant, you will provide day-to-day administrative and operational support to the business, working closely with and reporting into the Personal Assistant to the CEO. You will ensure smooth running of basic processes and support team efficiency. Primarily assisting the Chief Operating Officer, Chief People Officer and Chief Financial Officer with administration support and working as a go-to alongside the PA for the wider team.

What You'll Do

General administration 
  • Manage meeting bookings and room coordination
  • Maintain shared calendars and documents
  • Support onboarding/administration tasks
Operational support 
  • Assist with general administration support including diary management, travel, expenses and inbox management
  • Support facilities coordination where needed
  • Provide additional support to wider Director team with meeting and travel booking
Team support 
  • Provide ad hoc support to teams and projects
  • Help organise internal events and meetings
  • Maintain trackers and shared systems to support effective team operations
Support to EA/PA 
  • Take on assigned administrative tasks
  • Prepare basic materials for meetings
  • Help manage workload overflow
Other Requirements
  • Business travel across Plexal sites may be required
  • Needs the ability to manage and influence through both face-to-face and virtual team environments.
  • The role may require SC clearance

Your Skills

  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
  • Confidence to seek out information across the business and push back on conflicting priorities
  • Discretion with sensitive and confidential information
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with C-level executives and stakeholders
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically:
  • Microsoft Outlook, Teams and Calendar management tools
  • SharePoint and OneDrive for document management
Desirable:  
  • Experience with CRM systems such as HubSpot (as required for stakeholder coordination and management)

Your Experience

Relevant professional experience or equivalent formal education

Early career or 1-2 years admin experience

Who You Are

  • High level of discretion and confidentiality
  • Self-motivated and highly organised
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous scenarios 
  • Ability to work in a high-pace environment
  • Willing to learn and develop
Interview Dates:
First-round interviews: 22 June 2026
Second-round interviews: 29 June 2026

Why us?

Plexal’s Values:

Mission: We inherit the mission of UK government and deliver it in an agile and creative fashion.

Collaboration: We believe in the power of working together.

Equality: We strengthen ourselves as a team by embracing the different.

Care: People are at the heart of what we do; we care about our customers, members and colleagues.
 
As a start-up, we thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment dedicated to empowering innovators. We embrace individuals who leverage technology and creativity to tackle our greatest challenges head-on. We strongly advocate for maintaining a harmonious work-life balance, our goal is to ensure every member of our team can authentically be themselves and live their best lives. We firmly believe that innovation and creativity flourish when we cultivate a diverse workforce, comprising highly skilled individuals with a wide range of perspectives to contribute.
 
In return we will offer you:

  • Salary: £35,000 - £42,000 depending on skills and experience
  • Annual bonus scheme
  • A generous pension scheme (with a company contribution of up to 10%)
  • Private healthcare, life assurance and critical illness cover
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Volunteering day
Plexal is an equal opportunities employer and we actively encourage applicants from individuals from all backgrounds. We are a Disability Committed employer and are willing to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

About us

Plexal is the innovation and growth company helping to strengthen the UK’s technology capabilities through collaboration.

With teams in London, Manchester and Cheltenham, we work closely with government, industry, startups and academia to drive economic growth and reinforce national security.
 
Founded by Delancey in 2017, Plexal delivers four core services: creating workspaces for innovators, running innovation programmes and consultancy, building regional tech clusters and helping SMEs scale strategically.
 
By closing the gap between early-stage and established organisations – across the public and private sectors at home and abroad – we’ve impacted over 1,200 businesses, added £731m to the UK economy and helped create 9,400 jobs.
 
Headquartered at Here East on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Plexal partners with organisations including the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the National Cyber Security Centre, Airbus, Amazon, Barclays Eagle Labs, Google Cloud, TfL, The Alan Turing Institute and the University of Oxford.