Health & Safety Directorate Lead Administrator

About the Role

This role provides comprehensive secretarial, financial, organisational and administrative support to the Health & Safety Directorate (HSD), as well as line managing the department Administrator. The post holder will help to ensure efficiency in service levels and health & safety compliance across the University. Duties and responsibilities include Lead Administrator for the Health & Safety / Fire Safety team, coordinating training administration for all H&S accredited courses the directorate delivers, managing and developing the HSD website content and leading on administration for any new H&S software packages.

About You

This is a busy and varied role and the post holder must be able to work to tight deadlines and learn new systems and procedures rapidly. The role requires the post holder to have excellent organisational skills and a responsive, flexible attitude. The ability to interpret and analyse data and present findings accurately to support effective reporting of information to senior University staff is also important.

About the Department

The Health & Safety Directorate provide a comprehensive advisory health, safety and fire safety service to all Queen Mary University of London staff and students. The Health and Safety Administrator supports the HSD Team in achieving this objective. The directorate has 14 staff and is part of the Office of the Principal, which is a central Professional Services department.

The Health and Safety Directorate (HSD) supports Queen Mary staff in decision making in regard to compliance with H&S legislation and good practice in H&S. 

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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