Student Communities & Reception Assistant

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution.

The combined university is one of the largest suppliers of the health workforce in the capital, as well as one of the largest higher education destinations for London students.

Combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, law, creativity, communications, science and technology, we are creating a ‘health powerhouse’ for students, researchers, the NHS and partners in uniting a world-leading specialist health university. We are now one of the UK’s largest health educators, where staff and students have access to an expanded team of brilliant academic and professional services colleagues, combined resources and facilities and more interdisciplinary opportunities.

The merger creates opportunities to generate significant change in the world of healthcare including changes to treatment, population health monitoring, workforce development and leadership, policy, and advocacy.

Background

With a rich history spanning over 125 years, City St George’s Students’ Union is the primary organisation representing every City St George’s student. That makes the Union the representative body for over 20,000 members. With five Full-Time Student Officers, a team of permanent staff and the involvement of student volunteers, the Union is at the heart of activity on campus tasked with improving and delivering the best Student Experience. Union delivers a range of services and support for its members, from independent academic advice to supporting our Programme Reps to enhance their course, to promoting the employability and development of students through our Communities Team.

Responsibilities

This post holder supports the delivery of our front of house Welcome Desk’s (Reception’s) and Clerkenwell based retail offer. Supporting the Communities team, this role will provide the administrative support for our student groups. This will involve processing events forms, evaluating external speaker forms, helping student groups set up their events, responding to society queries and inspiring students to run engaging and safe events. Working on our Welcome Desk, our ideal candidate will be friendly, enthusiastic, have good communication skills and the ability to multi-task to get the job done.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will have a basic understanding of students’ unions and / or universities, experience in a customer facing role along with experience of using a Customer Relationship Management system and providing effective administrative support.

Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload are also important requirements.

Additional Information

Closing date: 20th November 2024 at 11:59pm.

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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