Administrative Assistant/Office Coordinator
Aktis Oncology
Summary
Aktis is seeking a proactive, organized, and detail-oriented Administrative Assistant to support day-to-day office operations and maintain a welcoming, efficient workplace. The role provides reception, workplace coordination, and administrative support to VP-level staff, partnering with Facilities, EHS, IT, and People & Culture on employee needs and onboarding while maintaining confidentiality.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Provide professional front-desk coverage by greeting visitors, managing office access, coordinating deliveries and shipping, and maintaining organized reception and common areas.
- Monitor inventory and purchase office and routine workplace supplies through approved vendors, maintaining appropriate stock levels and supporting receipt and expense reconciliation.
- Maintain clean, organized, and well-stocked kitchen and breakroom areas, coordinate routine orders and cleanouts, and escalate appliance, plumbing, pest, or maintenance issues as needed.
- Coordinate meeting, interview, lunch, and company-event logistics, including headcounts, dietary needs, catering, room setup, vendor access, refreshments, and post-event cleanup.
- Manage parking-voucher inventory and distribution, provide parking instructions, maintain basic usage records, and assist with visitors or executive transportation arrangements when needed.
- Provide administrative support to VP-level staff, including expense reports and corporate-card reconciliation, receipt management, meeting and business-meal coordination, and occasional travel support.
- Conduct routine conference-room and common-area checks, reset spaces after use, report technology or facility issues, and submit or track basic workplace service requests.
- Serve as an administrative contact for routine workplace vendors, maintain vendor information, schedule service visits, coordinate building access, and route invoices for approval.
- Coordinate the workplace portion of new-hire onboarding by preparing workspaces and supplies, supporting badges and building access, providing parking and office orientation, and partnering with Facilities, EHS, IT, and People & Culture.
- Complete daily, weekly, and monthly workplace checks and reconciliations, including reception coverage, inventory and ordering, meeting preparation, expense follow-up, vendor review, parking usage, and identification of facility needs.
Qualifications
- 1-2 years of experience in a similar role in biotechnology industry.
- Advanced knowledge and skills with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- Excellent organizational skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing growth environment with the ability to work independently.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and demonstrated flexibility with changing priorities
- Personifies positive energy and exemplifies respect
Requirements
- 1-2 years of experience in a similar role in biotechnology industry
- Advanced knowledge and skills with Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- Thrives in a fast-paced, ever-changing growth environment with the ability to work independently
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and demonstrated flexibility with changing priorities
- Personifies positive energy and exemplifies respect
Company overview
Aktis Oncology (Nasdaq: AKTS) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in developing next-generation targeted radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment. The company has developed a proprietary miniprotein radioconjugate platform designed to selectively deliver tumor-killing radioisotopes to cancer cells while minimizing systemic radiation exposure to healthy tissues. Aktis Oncology's most advanced pipeline program targets Nectin-4, a miniprotein radioconjugate with multi-indication potential across various tumor types. The company maintains a strategic collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company to develop novel anticancer radiopharmaceuticals for targets outside Aktis' proprietary pipeline. With approximately 51-200 employees, Aktis Oncology has raised over $336 million in funding and completed its IPO in January 2026. The company focuses on expanding the breakthrough potential of targeted radiopharmaceuticals to large patient populations, including those not addressed by existing platform technologies, with the goal of transforming cancer treatment through precision radiopharmaceutical therapies.