Department Administrator

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working in partnership to achieve excellence in public and global health research, education and translation of knowledge into policy and practice.

We are seeking to recruit an experienced administrator to provide support to the Department Managers in the day-to-day administration and operations of two busy Departments. 

The role holder will arrange departmental meetings, provide administrative support for HR processes, manage travel arrangements and provide assistance in financial transactions. The role holder will have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work to tight and often conflicting deadlines. 

The successful applicant will have proven, relevant administrative experience in an academic or similar environment, proven experience of maintaining electronic and paper record-keeping systems, proven ability to manage a busy workload and meet deadlines, assessing priorities with minimum. Further particulars are included in the job description.

This is a permanent post and full time (with consideration for part-time at 0.8 FTE) and is available from 1st August 2024. The salary will be on the Professional Services Grade 3 salary scale in the range £28,614 - £32,307 per annum pro rata (inclusive of London Weighting). 

The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service.  Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London at LSHTM.

Applications should be made on-line by clicking the 'Apply' button, above.

Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date.

Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.

Please quote reference ITD-DCD-2024-09.

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable. 

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

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