Department Administrator (Biosciences)
| Posting date: | 18 September 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,444 to £26,444 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 09 October 2024 |
| Location: | Exeter, Devon |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | University of Exeter |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | P97052 |
Summary
Education and Academic Services
This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working with some work carried out on the Streatham Campus.
This new 0.8FTE post is available immediately on a permanent basis.
Summary of the role
To provide essential frontline administrative support to academic leaders within the Department of Biosciences including high-quality administrative support to key departmental priorities. The role ensures the frontline delivery of professional services in a timely manner ensuring that business is delivered to deadlines.
The role will be expected to be heavily involved in Department communication, general operations and committees. As well as REF preparation including, but not limited to, action planning and tracking, reporting on outcomes and ensuring deadlines are met. Contributing towards institution-wide projects, this post will be involved in the design, testing and roll-out phases of specific projects acting as locality ‘champion’ and encouraging/supporting the uptake of such roll-out amongst the academic community.
This is a varied and interesting role at the frontline of business support to the Department, which requires the ability to respond to, manage and follow up on a diverse range of queries from a variety of internal and external stakeholders in a customer/end user orientated manner.
The post will be based in the Geoffrey Pope building on the Streatham, Exeter Campus, and we can offer hybrid working arrangements.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).
We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research – Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.
We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.
Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
- 39 days leave per year
- options for flexible working
- numerous discounts at leading retailers
- onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
- sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Steph Brown, s.brown8@exeter.ac.uk or Lindsay Beasley, l.j.beasley@exeter.ac.uk.
This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working with some work carried out on the Streatham Campus.
This new 0.8FTE post is available immediately on a permanent basis.
Summary of the role
To provide essential frontline administrative support to academic leaders within the Department of Biosciences including high-quality administrative support to key departmental priorities. The role ensures the frontline delivery of professional services in a timely manner ensuring that business is delivered to deadlines.
The role will be expected to be heavily involved in Department communication, general operations and committees. As well as REF preparation including, but not limited to, action planning and tracking, reporting on outcomes and ensuring deadlines are met. Contributing towards institution-wide projects, this post will be involved in the design, testing and roll-out phases of specific projects acting as locality ‘champion’ and encouraging/supporting the uptake of such roll-out amongst the academic community.
This is a varied and interesting role at the frontline of business support to the Department, which requires the ability to respond to, manage and follow up on a diverse range of queries from a variety of internal and external stakeholders in a customer/end user orientated manner.
The post will be based in the Geoffrey Pope building on the Streatham, Exeter Campus, and we can offer hybrid working arrangements.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
The University of Exeter
We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.
Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).
We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research – Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment
We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.
We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.
Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
- 39 days leave per year
- options for flexible working
- numerous discounts at leading retailers
- onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
- sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England
Further information
Please contact Steph Brown, s.brown8@exeter.ac.uk or Lindsay Beasley, l.j.beasley@exeter.ac.uk.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.