administrative assistant United Kingdom
Job description
The Role
We have a vacancy in our Teaching and Learning and Programme Support Team. Our team provides a high standard of administrative support to key programme administration related activities ensuring an efficient and effective service to programme and portfolio leads, and students. The team is dedicated to delivering high quality experiences to both students and staff from responding to queries, enrolling students, and managing exam board processing, to coordinating the maintenance of records, systems, and reports. The successful applicant will be based at our Medway campus.
Why choose us?
The University has been established for over 125 years and is an exciting and rewarding place to work. Situated on three beautiful campuses, the University boasts state-of-the-art facilities and an international student and staff community.
Awarded Silver in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, the University has a growing reputation for teaching and learning, an attractive portfolio of academic programmes, and highly talented and motivated staff. We specialise in high quality, professional degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Your profile
We are looking for someone with proven administrative experience, preferably in a large and complex organisation - ideally within higher education. The successful candidate will possess strong communication skills. You can quickly build strong and positive working relationships with administrative and academic colleagues. You have excellent organisational skills and can plan and prioritise a busy schedule of work to achieve objectives. You will have strong IT skills and enjoy multi-tasking, having several projects on the go at any one time. Comfortable with rapid change, you are happy to be part of a close-knit team with shared objectives. Your track record includes servicing formal meetings, using records systems and databases, together with a commitment to continuous improvement and solving challenges through innovation. Great problem solving and decision-making skills are crucial alongside accuracy and an eye for detail.
The successful candidate will hold:
- A2- level or B. Tech level 3 education or equivalent Level qualification
- A good standard of general education, including minimum of A-C grades in Maths and English or equivalent
Employment Visa: Under the UK Government Points Based System scheme this role does not meet the criteria to be sponsored for a Skilled Worker Route application.
For informal queries, please contact Gary Corcoran via email on [email protected] or the HR Recruitment Team on [email protected]
The university welcomes people from diverse and underrepresented communities who can help the university to achieve its mission.
We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion.
We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form.
We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
Further details of the fantastic benefits and what we offer can be found here: Our benefits - what we offer | Jobs and careers | University of Greenwich
