Administration and Communications Officer

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK (On-site)

£32K/yr – £42K/yrEntry LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and coordinate admin, communications, and office operations to keep PHG’s external messaging polished while ensuring smooth HR, payroll, and facilities support; bridging policy outreach with accessible content and internal processes.

  • Communications & content: design digital/print materials, keep the website updated, and ensure policy messaging reaches the right audience.
  • Analytics & house style: monitor metrics and maintain brand consistency across communications.
  • Operations & HR admin: oversee payroll, recruitment, contracts, meetings, events, and office facilities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • spend half your time supporting our external-facing communications activities, including, designing digital and print content and keeping our website up to date
  • From monitoring analytics to maintaining our house style, you’ll help ensure our policy perspectives reach the right people
  • The other half of your time will be spent ensuring our office and HR functions run smoothly
  • This includes essential HR admin (payroll, recruitment, and contracts)
  • coordinating meetings and events
  • managing our office facilities

Requirements

  • You have an eye for detail and enjoy using different software (e.g. Adobe Indesign, Canva) to create impactful content
  • You’re proficient in Google/Microsoft and either know your way around CMS/CRM platforms or are excited to learn
  • You can juggle competing priorities without dropping standards or missing deadlines
  • You’re a team player who is self-motivated, professional, and ready to take the initiative

Preferred

  • familiarity with CMS/CRM platforms is a plus
  • experience with analytics (monitoring analytics) could be beneficial
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The PHG Foundation is an independent, non-profit think tank; our mission is making science work for health.Our expert analysts provide consultancy and guidance to policy makers, commissioners and healthcare innovators to put the advances made by biomedical sciences into health systems in way that is fair, ethical and effective for all.We are part of the University of Cambridge, as a linked exempt charity.Find out more about how PHG Foundation works to ensure biomedical innovation delivers better health for all on our website: www.phgfoundation.org. For PHG's latest opinions, news & events, sign up to our newsletter http://buff.ly/2qeJUEV

Founded in 1997
Cambridge, England, GBR
35 employees (4 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.9%
Direct
32.8%
Referral
8.1%
Social
4.8%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~35

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
4 (11% of company)