UE05; £24,285 - £27,929

Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences/Health in Social Science/Clinical Psychology

Full time; (1 FTE) 35 hrs per week

Open ended

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive administrator with excellent team working, problem solving, digital and interpersonal skills.

The Opportunity:

The School of Health in Social Science is looking for an administrator to provide a high standard of administrative support for the School’s Postgraduate Research and Professional Training programmes admissions working closely with Postgraduate Research Professional Services staff, academic Subject Area Leads and the School PGR Director.

The role will support non-traditional learning administrative processes (continuing professional development and postgraduate professional development) which will include both admissions and on programme support.

The post holder will provide excellent customer service and support to applicants, students and staff.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Experience of working within a team but also using initiative and judgement to make day-to-day decisions independently
• Experience of delivering tasks with a high level of accuracy
• Experience of using Microsoft Office packages
• Experience of problem solving and flexibility within a fast changing environment

Click here for a copy of the full job description.

Please apply by submitting both a CV and covering letter explaining how you meet the essential criteria within the job description and any experience of dealing with the tasks outlined within the main responsibilities.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 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.

Interview dates TBC.

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.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.