Administrative Apprentice
| Posting date: | 30 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £22,113 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 August 2024 |
| Location: | Durham, County Durham, DH1 3LE |
| Company: | Durham University |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 24001349_1722329036 |
Summary
The Role and Department
People are the most important asset of Durham University and our HR Department is pivotal in ensuring that we attract, recruit, develop, reward and retain the very best talent from across the world into our University community. Building on our bold and ambitious University Strategy, a key role of HR is to secure the University's strategic aim, 'to be a world leading employer' by ensuring that our staff can reach their full potential. The HR Department plays a lead role in creating a working environment for our staff (and potential staff) which is supportive, stimulating and informative which provides for creative and innovative employment practices and opportunities. Our aim is to make sure that Durham University is a great place to work.
This role is based in the Organisation Development (OD) team who are responsible for ensuring that leaders, teams, and individuals are provided with the opportunities and resources to enhance their effectiveness and efficiency.
The purposes of the role are to provide effective, efficient and timely administrative support to the OD team; helping to ensure that the right people are in the right place and the right time; providing the first point of contact for enquiries about development, learning and organisation development and triaging the enquiry to the appropriate person. The over-riding purpose is to provide focussed administrative support to enable the team to function at its highest level. This role works hybridly.
From early 2025 the base location for this role will change from our Durham City Centre site to our exciting new professional services hub based at Boldon House. Boldon House is situated on the outskirts of Durham near the Arnison Centre in Pity Me. Boldon House will bring a number of professional services teams together in a vibrant office environment which supports collaborative working and is designed to embrace hybrid working. To find out more about this project, please visit this webpage: .
Further information about the role and the responsibilities is at the bottom of this job description.
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