Recruitment and Admissions Support Officer

UE05 £24,285 - £27,929

College of Science and Engineering, College Office

Open ended, 35 hours per week

We are looking for an enthusiastic person with strong customer care skills to join our busy team.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Recruitment and Admissions Team within the College of Science and Engineering, working to provide effective and efficient support of student recruitment and admissions for taught programmes.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Customer focussed
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong administrative experience
• Ability to work well within a team, and independently
  

Click here for a copy of the full job description.

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 College of Science and Engineering Recruitment and Admissions Team are currently working in a hybrid home / office format. This way of working is a trial and may change in the future. Under current arrangements, the post-holder will be required to work at least 40% of their working hours on-campus (one day of which will be a “core” day when all members of the team work on-campus on the same day), and will be expected to attend on-campus meeting and events as required on other working days. They may opt to work fully on-campus if they prefer. Equipment for home working will be provided.

Please upload a CV and Supporting Statement as part of your online application. The Supporting Statement should clearly address how you meet each of the essential criteria listed in the Job Description, including examples as relevant.

The shortlisting process assesses candidates’ applications against these criteria. Candidates who do not clearly demonstrate how they meet these criteria will not be shortlisted for interview.

Interviews will be held week commencing 30 th January

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