Executive Support Officer

This post will support the Strategy, Insight and Member Engagement team with insight into our members and help inform our members about UUK’s work.

The Strategy, Insight and Member Engagement team includes the chief executive’s office at UUK and creates opportunities for our universities to learn from each other, to drive value for our members, and to ensure we deliver our strategic plan.

The post-holder will offer a broad range of administrative support across the team, including co-ordinating our fortnightly newsletter to our membership, helping to ensure we keep records and data about engagement with our members up to date, supporting the chief executive’s office with one off logistical projects and travel bookings, and supporting calls with members. The post-holder will also help ensure what we learn about our members is shared across the wider staff team. This is an opportunity for a pragmatic and organised individual to join our friendly team.

This role is offered on a part time basis (0.6 FTE). We can be flexible as to the hours and days the successful candidate may wish to work, however we would benefit from spreading the hours across at least Monday to Thursday.

If you would like to have a conversation about the role, please email Miriam Deakin, Miriam.deakin@universitiesuk.ac.uk

Interviews are expected to take place on Friday 01 May 2026.

Further details:

• Job Description and Person Specification

Universities UK (UUK) is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join UUK.

Find out more about working at UUK and our equality, diversity and inclusion action plan on our website.

Universities UK operates a hybrid working framework involving the opportunity to work from home and in the office. There will be a small number of roles where employees will be required to work from an office, but typically the majority of employees will be able to work remotely on average 60% of their working week. All employees are welcome to use their contractual office for their whole working week if that is their preference.