Administrator
Key roles and responsibilities
Learning and Development
- Provide administrative support to the Learning & Development team, including:
- Using our learning management system to:
- Create, upload and manage courses
- Manage learners
- Manage accreditations and cyclical learning
- Track attendance and completion rates
- Run regular and ad-hoc reports on training
- Responding to learner requests and troubleshoot issues in a timely manner
- Sending out invitations, reminders, and pre-work
- Managing attendee lists
- Booking individual and group training, as requested, including logistics and travel arrangements
- Managing the fortnightly training calendar
- Carry out research for suitable L&D providers, and contact/liaise with them, as required
- Using our learning management system to:
Administration and office management
- Be responsible for the smooth running of company offices and home offices of the team, including but not limited to:
- Monitor and replenish office supplies, equipment and housekeeping items
- Ensure the Oxfordshire office is kept tidy and well maintained, discussing maintenance needs with a director, as necessary
- Liaise with landlords, cleaners, and other suppliers and contractors, as required
- Support with health and safety requirements, for example with monthly monitoring of fire alarms and other checks
- Provide administrative support to the wider team, including ordering and making payments for equipment, furniture, subscriptions, memberships
Contracts and subscriptions
- Arrange and track freelancer contracts, ensuring all are up to date and other requirements are met (e.g., policies signed off)
- Coordinate mobile phones and contracts for team members
- Work with the IT lead to manage tracking and payment of software subscriptions
Meetings
- Make arrangements for meetings, including booking of meeting rooms/venues, catering, registrations, accommodation and travel
- Organise all logistics for the annual, all-team, 2-day company meeting
- Organise and book travel arrangements (UK and worldwide) for the team, including but not limited to:
- Ensure most cost-effective options are booked
- Complete and communicate international travel forms
- Research travel arrangements, visas, and vaccinations
- Record travel for insurance and environmental records
Other tasks
- If required, organise other health and safety-related risk assessments
- Undertake any other task, as reasonably required
- Follow company procedures with respect to administrative and project-related tasks. To include, but not limited to, daily completion of Paprika timesheets, and timely and accurate folder/file housekeeping.
- Liaise with team members, clients, healthcare professionals, contractors, and any other relevant third parties in a professional, courteous, and efficient manner.
- During your day-to-day work and internal and external interactions, champion adherence to Aspire’s Values. Where you notice others not adhering to our values, act on this by raising with a more senior member of the Aspire team.
Aspire Scientific: Vision and Values
Culture
- We care for our team by fostering a people-first culture of trust, transparency, and flexibility that actively encourages a healthy and sustainable work–life balance.
Talent
- We recruit, invest in, and retain outstanding people. We provide the resources and ongoing training and development opportunities to nurture talented, stable teams who excel at what they do.
Excellence
- We develop successful client partnerships through excellence in medical writing and communication, underpinned by therapy area knowledge, industry expertise and a commitment to best practices.