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Personal Assistant to Chief Standards Officer
Marine Stewardship Council
United Kingdom
Posted on Aug 20, 2025
Seize this exciting opportunity to make a positive contribution to the health of the world’s oceans – as Personal Assistant to the Chief Standards Officer (CSO) at the Marine Stewardship Council.
This pivotal role will place you at the centre of our Science and Standards department, supporting the CSO in their leadership of international department contributing to delivery of MSC’s mission.
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll provide trusted executive support to the CSO, managing their time, communications, and commitments so they can focus on strategic leadership. This includes diary and correspondence management, making travel arrangements, organising meetings and preparing meeting papers.
You’ll also play a coordinating role across the Science and Standards leadership team, supporting senior colleagues with logistics and administration, ensuring smooth collaboration across a global function, and overseeing the work of an administrative staff member.
The role requires close collaboration with colleagues across the MSC and interaction with a range of external partners, offering the opportunity to work at the heart of a global organisation making a real difference to the future health of the world’s oceans.
To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:
- proven PA experience in supporting senior leaders with complex diaries, correspondence and meetings.
- first-class organisational skills - able to plan ahead, manage competing priorities, and anticipate needs.
- excellent organisational and communications skills, enthusiasm for team-working, meticulous attention to detail and be able to demonstrate absolute discretion.
If this has inspired you, please send your CV and a covering letter to Matthew Sharman with Hays - Matthew.Sharman@hays.com
We’re an international organisation and our employees all demonstrate a level of cultural awareness, and value the diverse views and approaches relevant to the MSC program.
The MSC is committed to flexible working. The successful candidate will need to work from the London office for a minimum of 50% of their working time each month The remaining time can be worked from home.
Please be aware, we are only able to progress with candidates who already have the right to work in the location specified in this advert. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.
The MSC is committed to the principles of equality and fairness and we welcome applications from all communities. We do not discriminate on the grounds of age, ethnicity, race, colour, religion or belief, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. If you consider yourself to have a disability and need reasonable adjustments made during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know how we can help you.