Receptionist Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Role: Guaranteed Hours Cover Receptionist at Edinburgh College of Art
Grade: UE03: Salary Range £21,254 to £22,681 Pro-rata
Hours: A minimum of 175 hours will be offered between: 11th September 2023 – 11th March 2024
This role is fixed-term to be reviewed in 18 months
Description of post:
Applications are invited for a Guaranteed Hours (GH) contract as a receptionist working across campus in four buildings.
Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual who strives to provide outstanding customer services to join the reception team. Our receptionists provide professional, front-line services support across a range of priority areas including front-line reception and general administrative support to various professional services teams and building users as a part of the ECA Campus Operations Team.
Your Skills and Attributes for Success:
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a positive and friendly approach
- Presentable, punctual, with good organisational skills, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to solve problems and show initiative, stay calm under pressure
- Competent IT skills, especially a working knowledge of MS Office packages, with an ability to learn how to use web-based and other IT packages.
As part of the application please include a cover letter outlining why you are a suitable candidate for this position alongside a current CV.
Closing date : 2 weeks from advert goes live.
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In addition to a full cv/resume, please provide a covering letter describing your interest and detailing why you wish to be considered for the role
About the Team
Edinburgh College of Art is a large and diverse school within the University of Edinburgh's College of Humanities and Social Science. It comprises Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Art, Design, History of Art and Music.
Our mission is to promote world-leading critical enquiry across all these subject areas through scholarly research, teaching and creative practice.
Over 3,000 students and 800 staff study and work at ECA and we enjoy strong relationships with museums, galleries, archives, practitioners and industry partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and internationally.
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.
Interviews will be held at a time to be determined later. 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 Tier 2/Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an existing right to work in the UK.
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