Department Administrator (Psychology)

Education and Academic Services: Faculty Operations

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

This full-time (36.5 hour a week) post is available immediately on a permanent basis. The role is worked over 5 days Monday to Friday with an expectation to be on campus at least 3 days per week. We would consider candidates who wish to work part-time/flexibly or job share arrangements.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join a team of essential frontline administrative support to the Head of Department and Senior Leadership Team within the Department of Psychology, including high-quality administrative support to key departmental/local governance 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 local themes of work including NSS, REF and KEF preparation including, but not limited to, action planning and tracking, reporting on outcomes and ensuring deadlines are met. Contributing towards institution-wide projects, particularly the digital transformation programme, 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.

Given the frontline business support nature of this role,the post holder will be expected 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.

About you

We are seeking an individual with experience in supporting senior leaders, managing diaries, and providing committee support. The ideal candidate will possess excellent administrative, organisational, IT, and communication skills, as well as the ability to use initiative, handle a diverse workload, and deliver on key business projects and event support. It is important to work effectively within a wider departmental professional services team and to provide support across education and academic services for our academic and student community.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

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 six 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 Department Manager: Josie Sweetland via email: J.C.Sweetland2@exeter.ac.uk

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