The Crown Estate
Team Personal Assistant - 12 Month FTC (Maternity Cover)
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Advert Close date: 07/08/2026
Purpose of Role:
At The Crown Estate, we create lasting and shared value for the nation through responsible stewardship, sustainability, and long-term thinking. As Team Personal Assistant, you will play a vital role in enabling the Development Leadership Team to operate effectively by delivering exceptional administrative and organizational support.
Acting as a central point of coordination, you will help ensure the smooth flow of information, effective prioritization of activities, and efficient management of stakeholder commitments, while upholding the highest standards of professionalism, confidentiality, and collaboration.
This role is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract.
Context of opportunity / Main accountabilities:
This is an exciting opportunity to join a purpose-led organization and support a dynamic Development team at the heart of delivering value across our portfolio. Working closely with senior leaders, the Executive Assistant, and wider business support community, you will contribute to the successful delivery of enterprise priorities while ensuring a consistent and high-quality support service.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing proactive and comprehensive PA support, including complex diary and inbox management.
- Coordinating and prioritizing schedules, resolving conflicts, and ensuring stakeholders are well prepared for meetings and key activities.
- Managing meeting logistics, including scheduling, agenda preparation, briefing packs, minute taking, and action tracking.
- Supporting leadership team governance processes through the timely coordination and submission of papers and documentation.
- Organizing national and, where required, international travel arrangements in line with company policies and sustainability considerations.
- Processing expenses and maintaining compliance with relevant corporate policies and procedures.
- Planning and coordinating internal and external events, team meetings, away days, and key annual activities.
- Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, acting as a professional first point of contact on behalf of senior leaders.
- Supporting continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline processes, enhance service delivery, and reduce costs and carbon emissions.
- Collaborating across the Business Support Community to promote knowledge sharing, consistency, and best practice.
- Providing flexible support to colleagues during periods of absence and adapting to changing business priorities.
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Most important skills based requirements:
- Proven experience providing high-level PA support within a fast-paced and complex business environment, ideally supporting Director-level stakeholders.
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, adapt quickly to changing demands, and meet deadlines under pressure.
- Strong diary, inbox, and stakeholder management experience with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to build trusted relationships across all levels of an organization.
- Ability to work independently, using initiative and sound judgment while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Resilient, adaptable, and collaborative, with a commitment to delivering an outstanding support service.
- Experience coordinating meetings, events, travel arrangements, and governance-related activities.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify and implement more efficient ways of working.
- Commitment to inclusion, collaboration, and creating an environment where diverse perspectives and experiences are valued.
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Our Offering / benefits:
As well as a competitive salary, pension, and performance-related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market-leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover, and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work-life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self at work.
Disability Disclaimer:
We are a proud disability-confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop, and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables, and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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