Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

This is a remote position. Please apply even if you are living outside of the UK.

Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) is looking for a detailed-oriented, resourceful, and collaborative individual to serve as an Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Innovation and Scaling Officer.

Position Type: Full Time

Application Deadline: 13th October 2026

Location: This is a remote-working position

Start date: 2nd November 2026

Salary: £28,171 to £33,353 ($37,692 to $44,626).

Benefits: Flexible remote-working, home office set-up, unlimited annual leave, professional development opportunities, enhanced pension contributions, enhanced statutory leave provisions including maternity and paternity leave.

About the role:

PLH is seeking a highly organised, discreet, and resourceful Executive Assistant to support our Executive Team including our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Innovation and Scaling Officer (CISO). This role is central to keeping a fast-moving, internationally distributed portfolio of work on track — from country scaling initiatives and government partnerships to internal team growth. The ideal candidate is comfortable operating with significant autonomy, anticipating needs before they're voiced, and managing competing priorities across time zones.

This is a high-trust role for someone who can develop structure in a shifting environment, is unfazed by ambiguity, and takes pride in being the person who makes everything run smoothly behind the scenes. We’re looking for someone who likes to learn new things and is eager to leverage AI solutions to make our work more effective and efficient.

Responsibilities:

Calendar and Time Management

• Proactively manage a complex, multi-time-zone calendar spanning internal meetings, donor and government engagements, and international travel
• Triage and prioritise scheduling requests in line with the CEO and CISO strategic priorities
• Build in appropriate prep and buffer time ahead of high-stakes meetings

Travel and Logistics

• Coordinate international travel, including visas, itineraries, and accommodations for trips.
• Anticipate logistical needs for multi-stop, multi-partner trips and troubleshoot changes in real time

Administration and Correspondence

• Monitor and triage inboxes, flagging time-sensitive items and drafting responses for review
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting agendas, and meeting tools, such as Canva Whiteboards, to facilitate collaborative working sessions.
• Support ad hoc requests for formatting, filing, and organisation from the Executive Team.

Meeting and Project Support

• Prepare agendas, take notes, and track follow-up actions for key meetings, including leadership and board-adjacent sessions, ensuring seamless integration of tasks into Monday.com. Translate meeting notes into organised Claude projects to create a knowledge repository at PLH that facilitates seamless project management.
• Maintain decision logs and action-item trackers for cross-functional initiatives, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks during periods of rapid organisational growth
• Work in our task management platform, Monday.com, to support task management across the Executive Team and collaborate with the executive team to build new Monday.com management views to support project oversight
• Schedule and coordinate team meetings across multiple time zones

Confidentiality and Judgment

• Handle sensitive organisational, personnel, and partner information with absolute discretion
• Exercise sound judgment on what requires executive direct attention versus what can be delegated or handled independently

Essential criteria:

• 3+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a senior leader in a nonprofit, global health, or international development setting
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex international travel and multi-time-zone scheduling
• High level of discretion and sound judgment with confidential information
• Strong organisational skills with meticulous attention to detail
• Comfort working independently and adapting quickly amid shifting priorities
• Commitment to PLH's mission, core values, and organisational culture.
• English as a primary language or spoken with a high level of proficiency.
• Proficiency with project management and productivity tools (e.g. Google workspace, Monday.com, or similar products)

Preferred criteria:

• Experience supporting leadership through periods of organisational growth or scaling
• Familiarity with the global health, international development, or parenting/ child-wellbeing sector
• Experience working with distributed, multi-country teams

PLH Values

• Courage: We have the courage to design for the big picture and complex problems with a commitment to creating sustainable solutions that last.
• Evidence: We believe our work transforms the lives of children, families, and communities. Evidence of impact guides every decision, and we are relentless in pursuing the greatest impact with the least investment of time and resources required for parents and providers.
• Playfulness: Parenting and child wellbeing thrives on play — and so do we. We experiment, learn from each other, as well as from parents and children, and create playful and engaging products and programmes that inspire joy, curiosity, and connection.
• Respect: Everyone brings something essential. We show kindness in our team, honesty with our partners, and deep respect and empathy for parents and children, and those who are on the frontline of providing services for them.

PLH has a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity in how we work, who we work with, and what we do. Candidates from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

PLH also has a strong commitment to the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). All candidates considered for the role will be subject to background and reference checks in their country of residence.

To apply:

Applications must be sent via our website form by 12pm GMT on 13 October 2026.

Start date: 1 November 2026 on a fixed-term contract of 12 months (possible permanent extension).

Please submit a CV and a supporting statement explaining how you meet the above criteria. Only complete applications will be considered.

About Parenting for Lifelong Health:

Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) aims to empower parents to improve child development, reduce family violence, and promote mental health. We give parents the support they need, the skills that work, and trusted advice they can count on to protect and support their children’s health, safety and development. Our parenting courses are developed with families, powered by low-cost and accessible technology, backed by rigorous evidence, and delivered within systems. Originally founded as an initiative in 2012 in collaboration with UNICEF and the WHO, Parenting for Lifelong Health was established as a UK charity in 2022 and since then has reached over 6.2 million families in more than 35 countries.