office administrator Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE05 £25,285 – £28,929 Per Annum
University Secretary's Group / Provost’s Office
Open-ended (Permanent)
Full-time (35 hours per week)
We are looking for an experienced, customer-focused, and organised Executive Administrator to provide excellent day-to-day administrative support within our busy Provost’s Office team.
The Opportunity:
The Executive Administrator is a key member of the Provost’s Office team, providing high quality, professional administrative support to the Provost, the University’s Chief Academic Officer. You will concentrate on management of the Provost’s diary, contribute to the organisation of events, and provide general administrative support to the wider team.
This is a rare opportunity to develop your career in a small, friendly team supporting one of the University’s senior leaders.
This post is based in the University’s central area, currently at Charles Stewart House, and at Old College from early in 2024.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- A professional, proactive, customer-focussed and helpful approach
- Able to work flexibly, effectively and cooperatively with others
- Experience of working/responding independently and dealing with unforeseen problems and circumstances.
- Experience of dealing with internal and external colleagues and stakeholders confidently and tactfully, working with discretion and maintaining confidentiality
- Good written and oral communication skills
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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. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) 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.
Interviews expected to be held on Thursday the 24th of August. 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 (opens new browser tab) .
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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.
