Administrative Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE04: £22,630 - £24,715
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, MGPHS, Usher Institute
Full-time Contract: 35 hours per week (part-time 28 hours per week would be considered for successful candidate)
Open Ended Contract: Permanent
The Opportunity:
The Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for an enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to provide excellent day-to-day administrative support within our busy HR and Governance team.
The successful candidate will work within the small HR Governance team to assist in all aspects of local recruitment and on-boarding processes, including answering queries in our busy shared inbox. You will provide ongoing ‘Local Guide’ assistance to Usher staff using our People and Money system.
This post will be based in the office at Teviot Place (Central Campus) initially. Note that all Usher Institute staff will move to a new building at Edinburgh Bioquarter, Little France from early 2024.
- Good standard of general education, including SVQ level 3 in Business and Administration.
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
- Ability to exercise discretion, respect and confidentiality.
- Ability to organise time effectively, prioritise and work to deadlines.
- Flexible approach, excellent team player, ability to work under pressure.
- Experience in handling confidential information.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
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