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Assistant Projects Officer: Planning and Logistics
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Assistant Projects Officer: Planning and Logistics
RCN London HQ with hybrid working, 17.5 hours per week (Wednesday to Friday), permanent
Salary range per annum £39,018 - £44,079* + London weighting of £5,424 (pro rata)
Imagine being faced with a world of exciting possibilities that could ultimately enable you to support our members and help shape the health policies of the future. As the UK’s largest trade union and professional body for nursing, we support over half a million members with unwavering loyalty and total commitment. We represent and develop them, support their practice and lobby on their behalf to make a positive difference to their working lives.
The role
As an Assistant Projects Officer: Planning and Logistics you’ll use your positive attitude, your ability to undertake detailed planning of projects and your experience of providing excellent customer service to assist the Member Engagement and Projects Officer with the organisation and delivery of the RCN’s appointment, election and awards processes.
It's a job full of possibilities as you could get involved in anything from writing procedural documents to organising interview processes and preparing communications to go out to thousands of RCN members. We'll look to you to draw upon your project management skills to manage competing priorities. It's a great way to build your knowledge of our work and develop your potential.
The person
To join us you’ll need strong writing skills, the ability to build good working relationships and networks and, ideally, a background in a relevant area such as governance or communications.
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What we offer you
We expect you to look after our members. And we expect you to be rewarded for it. We offer an impressive range of benefits, a broad range of learning development opportunities and an award-winning health and wellbeing programme. We offer annual leave up to 32 days plus bank holidays and three additional days for the Christmas break plus generous maternity, adoption, paternity, and shared parental leave packages.
*We offer a competitive pay structure with annual pay progression until you reach the top of the salary scale. We normally offer new employees the first point of the salary range, although you may be able to negotiate a higher starting salary depending on your skills, experience and current salary.
We are a diverse organisation and understand everyone has different needs and many of our employees enjoy flexible working enabling them to deliver results whilst having a good work life balance. Our hybrid working model allows for up to 60% of your working time to be carried out from home. At least 40% of your working time will be spent working in person.
Our selection process
Please click the ‘apply now’ button to apply and answer the supporting questions online demonstrating how you meet the criteria for this role. You may not be shortlisted if you don’t. Any identifying information in your application will automatically be anonymised for shortlisting purposes.
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Equity, diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we aim to foster an inclusive environment so our people can bring their authentic selves to work. This is integral to our mission to enable you to support our members and ensure their voice is heard by all UK governments to get the best outcomes for them and their patients.
As proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme we actively encourage applications from people with disabilities.
Contact details
For more information or for an informal discussion about the role please contact Luke Dixon, Member Engagement and Projects Officer at luke.dixon@rcn.org.uk or on 020 7647 3612.
For more information about the recruitment and selection process please contact recruit@rcn.org.uk
Important dates
Opening date: Thursday 16 July 2026
Closing date: 11.59pm on Monday 3 August 2026
If we receive many applications after a week of advertising, we may close this vacancy earlier.
Selection dates: Week commencing 17 August 2026
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