"Teaching Administrator"

Job Identification

11060

UE05: £27,979.00 - £32,332.00 Per Annum.

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences / Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Open-ended Contract - Permanent.

Full time - 35 hours per week.

2 Positions Available

We are looking for an experienced administrator to support and facilitate the smooth delivery of the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s expanding and innovative undergraduate and postgraduate taught portfolio, contributing to the development of creative and efficient new ways of working to meet the needs of the Institute and its curriculum and students.

The Opportunity:

The Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) is developing an ambitious and innovative undergraduate and postgraduate taught portfolio. The portfolio will be highly interdisciplinary, forge new territory in student flexibility through a combination of online and offline teaching, and be highly engaged and co-produced with non-academic partners (government, community, industry). It will educate students for complex futures in which computational data, critical understanding and creative methods are essential to employability and the ability to take a confident place in the world.

The postholder will be responsible for the management of student, programme and course information for EFI’s first taught programmes and courses, supporting a wide range of exciting and innovative teaching activities and student groups. They will present an efficient and customer-friendly first point of contact for students and staff, and will play a key role in contributing to the development of creative and efficient working practices and processes to support EFI’s innovative interdisciplinary curriculum.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• A customer-focussed approach, committed to the highest quality of service to students and staff
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Flexibility and a positive attitude to work
• Initiative and judgement to resolve many day-to-day challenges independently

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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 are expected to be held in September.

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.