About The Royal Foundation
The Royal Foundation mobilises leaders, businesses, and individuals to address society’s greatest challenges. Under the leadership of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, our initiatives are driven by world-class research, long-term partnerships, and a commitment to measurable, scalable impact.
The Royal Foundation is looking for an exceptional Team Assistant to provide support to the Homewards Programme.
This is a varied role and is well suited to someone at the start of or early on in their career who wants to gain wide-ranging experience in a high-profile, ambitious organisation. The Team Assistant will support the Homewards Team with their administration needs in order to ensure effective organisation, co-ordination and flow of information.
The successful candidate will be extremely organised, have a can-do approach, and enjoy a busy working environment. The role is crucial in helping Homewards run smoothly and efficiently, enabling us to deliver our vision that together, it is possible to end homelessness – making it rare, brief and unrepeated.
Role Description and Core Responsibilities
· Assisting in organising relevant programme and stakeholder meetings and events; team diary management internally and externally, helping to prepare and circulate meeting agendas, papers and minutes; managing meeting logistics.
· Managing regular team meetings, including capturing notes/actions and supporting the team in tracking these to completion.
· Diary management for the Programme Director for Strategic Delivery.
· Helping to prepare programme-related updates, reports and newsletters for internal and external stakeholders.
· Supporting the events team on an ad-hoc basis with event planning and logistics relating to the Homewards programme, including guestlist management and correspondence.
· Assisting in keeping key programme documents updated, as required.
· Updating and maintaining databases and customer relationship management systems (CRMs).
· Managing correspondence from the public and wider stakeholder groups in relation to the work of the Homewards programme, taking primary responsibility for the Homewards inbox, responding to enquiries and escalating as required.
· Management of logistics and travel arrangements so appointments are completed in a timely manner
Relevant Knowledge, Experience, and Personal Qualities
· Experience of a not-for-profit organisation or projects
· Previous experience of supporting projects and/or events
· Highly competent user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
· Has strong administrative skills and organisational abilities.
· Experience of successfully dealing with stakeholders at different levels
· Ideally experience of using database and email software e.g. Mailchimp, Salesforce
· Caring, thoughtful and efficient
- Passionate and driven to make a positive impact on the world
- Strong self-motivation and flexible team player
- Is solution-focused and pre-empts problems by seeking guidance and taking action on an issue, task or project within their role
- Flexible and able to respond positively to an ever-changing environment, prioritising work effectively
About Homewards
Homewards is a five-year, locally led programme, launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales in June 2023.
The aim of Homewards is to demonstrate that together, it is possible to end homelessness – making it rare, brief, and unrepeated.
Homewards was inspired by successful projects from across the UK and around the world, all of which had one mission: to prevent and end homelessness. They brought together all sectors of society and started with a focus on specific groups – to understand the help that is needed.
- Location: Central London office, with some flexibility to work from home 2 days per week
- Contract type: 18 Month Fixed Term
- Holiday: 25 days per annum plus public holidays
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Benefits: Pension scheme (non-contributory), private medical insurance, life insurance, season ticket loan
Application Process
Please submit your CV and one page Cover Letter before the application deadline of 31/01/2025
This post is subject to receipt of two satisfactory references and proof of the right to work in the UK without restrictions.
