Team Coordinator - Advisory Services - 12 Month Maternity Cover

Location : London

1 Year Fixed Term Maternity Cover

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 75 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

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The Opportunity

This is a pivotal support role and will make a significant impact on how our teams operate and engage with our clients. This role will involve being the 'go to' person within the team, supporting colleagues in producing quality deliverables and ensuring smoot operations. This position presents an excellent opportunity for individuals interested in enhancing their skills, fostering new professional relationships, and embracing a new challenge.

Role right for you?

The ideal candidate will have an ability to build strong and positive relationships in a complex, multi-disciplinary environment. Furthermore, the candidate should be able to identify and utilise these relationships, ensuring efficiency within the team.

The ideal candidate must be self-aware, able to manage own resilience and be sensitive to others’ agenda. This is an essential part of the role and is key to developing valued working relationships, continually being mindful of impacts on the team, clients and internal colleagues.

Continuous improvement is a key part of this role, and we expect the team co-ordinator to embrace this, demonstrating a growth mind-set. The role requires a proactive approach to learning and of developing new approaches.

Willingness and ability to take ownership of tasks or internal projects is key. The individual must be a problem solver and take initiative to resolve issues that they may face.

Responsibilities

• Support the project team in all administrative activities in line with client requirements adhering to internal procedures.

• Supporting teams in promotion of projects via social media platforms in collaboration with the marketing team.

• Produce quality documents in line with the Arup brand, proofreading content to ensure consistency and good style, editing and making suggestions for improvements to text and presentations, creating first draft PowerPoint presentations if required.

• Collaborate with both project and business development and marketing teams in work winning activities – bids, PQQs and preparing supporting documentation

• You'll manage holidays, absences, and welfare initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions. Support new starters with onboarding, making their experience seamless. Assist with recruitment, scheduling interviews, and maintaining GDPR compliance.

• Assisting team and team leaders with diary management. Proactively gathering relevant details, booking meeting rooms and proactively liaising with relevant teams to organise AV requirements and refreshments required.

• Understanding the link between all Business Services disciplines and being able to draw on these relationships to deliver high quality outputs both to internal and external clients.

• Being aware of H&S best practice, identifying risks, breaches or specific needs. Taking on H&S roles when required.

• Demonstrate solid experience in a similar role, ideally in professional services, multi-disciplinary environment.

• Be an excellent communicator, both written and verbal

Not ready to apply just yet or have some questions? Contact Rhian Melaney [email protected] - Please note, to ensure we remain GDPR compliant do not send your CV directly to us via this email.

What We Offer you

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at

We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please contact Rhian Melaney at [email protected] to let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

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