Department Administrator (Biosciences)

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working with some work carried out on the Streatham Campus.

This new 0.8 FTE 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 (available on the university's website, accessed by the 'Apply' button) 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 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.

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 campuses 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.

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