Administrative Assistant/ Receptionist

Administrative Assistant/ Receptionist Edinburgh, Scotland

University of Edinburgh
Full Time Edinburgh, Scotland 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Administrative Assistant/ Receptionist

UE03- £21,254 - £22,681

Accommodation, Catering and Events – Property and Residential Services

Open Ended, Full Time- 35 hours per week

We are looking for an engaging and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to join our accommodation team based at a dynamic Reception in O’Shea Hall student accommodation.

The Opportunity:

An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Accommodation Team (Property and Residential Services) at The University of Edinburgh.
This customer focused role will be based at O’Shea Hall student accommodation on our Holyrood campus, boasting a fantastic and convenient city centre location. O’Shea Hall is home to approximately 1200 post graduate student residents living across 8 varied, modern accommodation blocks.

As Administrative Assistant, you will assist in the delivery of a wide range of administrative and Reception services whilst supporting the daily operations of a busy student halls of residence. You will work closely and flexibly with the other members of the Accommodation Team to provide an outstanding service to students, helping to ensure a comfortable and secure living and working environment for everyone at O’Shea Hall.

As part of a world-changing, world-leading University, we provide an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work with lots of development opportunities.

Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Experience of working in a busy customer service environment.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent organisational skills, able to manage a wide range of operational and staff demands.
  • Ability to plan ahead and work under pressure.
  • Computer literate in a wide range of applications.

Click to view a copy of the full job description here

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. Click to access our staff benefits pag e 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.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

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.

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 28.09.2023

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.

Administrative Assistant/ Receptionist
University of Edinburgh

www.ed.ac.uk
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor Peter Mathieson
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
College / University
Colleges & Universities
Education
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