Administrative Assistant Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Grade - UE05, £25,742 - £29,605 per annum
College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, Deanery of Clinical Sciences, Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences
Contract Type - Open Ended
Full time, 35 hours per week
CVS is looking to recruit a highly motivated, organised and proactive individual who will provide high quality, efficient support to the CVS Head of Centre, his research group and the CVS Centre Manager.
The Opportunity:
The principal role is to provide administrative support to the Head of Centre for the Centre for Cardiovascular science. The post sits within the Centre for Cardiovascular Science administration team, managed by the Centre Manager. The post holder will also provide core administrative support to the Centre for Cardiovascular Science.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Significant, relevant experience in the provision of high quality support to senior management.
- Excellent IT skills including strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
- Exceptional written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, a commitment to accuracy and high attention to detail.
- Highly developed time-management skills, with experience of dealing with conflicting demands and prioritising workload in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent planning and organisation skills.
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with a wide range of colleagues.
- Adaptability, flexibility and willingness to take on a range of duties within a team environment
This is a full time post but applications for flexible working arrangements, including compressed hours, are welcome.
As part of this application you are required to submit a document of no more than one page detailing how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined on the job description.
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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.
