"Senior Teaching Administrator"

Job Identification

11040

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

CAHSS / Business School / Teaching Operations.

Open Ended Contract - Permanent.

Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.

We are looking for a Senior Teaching Administrator to deliver high quality, professional on-programme administrative support for a number of Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes and courses. To work collaboratively with the Team Lead and the other Senior and Teaching Administrators to ensure consistency in the service provided to students and broader Student Experience priorities. To be a key point of contact for PGT Programme Directors and UG Programme leads, Course Organisers, and to work in partnership with the Student Services Manager and Student Advisors.

The Opportunity:

This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and combine a mix of remote and on-campus working. 

To deliver high quality, professional on-programme administrative support for a number of Undergraduate (UG) and Postgraduate Taught (PGT) programmes and courses. To work collaboratively with the Team Lead and the other Senior and Teaching Administrators to ensure consistency in the service provided to students and broader Student Experience priorities. To be a key point of contact for PGT Programme Directors and UG Programme leads, Course Organisers and to work in partnership with the Student Services Manager and Student Advisors.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Professional approach, with high-level customer service standards, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, aligned with a friendly, helpful manner, and proven ability to work effectively in a team. Resilience and enthusiasm to sustain a high level of performance when working to deadlines, whilst maintaining excellent attention to detail.
• Good negotiating and influencing skills, demonstrating tact and diplomacy.
• A strongly developed sense of service delivery and student focused approach.
• Good time management skills, with the proven ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively to ensure required deadlines are met.
• Experience of both working/responding independently and as part of a team. Resourceful, 

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

• A competitive salary of £27,979- £32,332 (per annum).
• An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 
• To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
• Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits. 

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion

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. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab)

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 21 August 2024.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

Interview date TBC.

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.