New College Receptionist Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE04: £22,630.00 - £24,715.00 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Divinity
Open Ended Contract – Permanent: Full Time - 35 Hours per Week
The Opportunity:
To be the initial point of contact to the School for visitors, and students, offering a prompt, professional, friendly and efficient front-of-house reception service for New College. The postholder will also provide a range of administrative support activities to assist the Divinity Professional Services team in the day-to-day running of the School.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Excellent customer service experience to include outgoing personality, competent interpersonal and communication skills with a professional, friendly, helpful and approachable manner, tact and diplomacy.
- An interest in people, empathy and a willingness to become involved, and awareness of cultural issues.
- Presentable, punctual, maintaining a tidy work environment
- Ability to stay calm under pressure, good organisational skills
- Flexible approach to deal with a variety of requests from staff and students
- Ability to use initiative and a pro-active approach to seeking out information
- Good understanding of what it means to provide an excellent customer service
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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.
The nature of this post requires the post holder to work on campus, 5 days per week.
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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