School Business Coordinator

About the Role

Applications are invited for the post of School Business Coordinator in the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. This role provides senior-level operational support within the School, ensuring local business continuity, oversight of compliance requirements, and coordination of local projects and priorities, including high level strategic events, and speaking engagements.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide high-level support to the School Leadership Team across the breadth of activities relating to their portfolio and responsibilities, with the ability to make appropriate decisions on behalf of their line
• Act as the key operational support within the School, ensuring smooth day-to-day functioning across core activity areas (e.g. health and safety, facilities liaison, business continuity, carbon reporting, and compliance).
• Provide administrative oversight and continuity for School committees or working groups, including preparing agendas, tracking actions, and coordinating

The role is expected to be for 9 months, but as this is a maternity cover this may be subject to change.

About You

Candidates should have experience of providing senior administrative or operational support within a complex organisation, ideally in Higher Education or a comparable sector, with the ability to solve problems, think independently and respond to sudden unexpected demands. A working knowledge and experience of carbon reporting, maintaining Health & Safety records, ABW planning, and drafting business-critical communications is essential.

About the School

The School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences is one of the largest Schools within Queen Mary University of London and is committed to excellence in research and teaching. The Department offers a lively and stimulating environment for staff and students, well integrated into the School.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable. Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities. Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.