Courses Administrator - Undergraduate

The Faculty of Music is looking for a new Courses Administrator with a particular focus on our undergraduate programme (Tripos). The successful applicant will be a proactive problem-solver with excellent organisational and communication skills who is prepared to work collaboratively with both academic and administrative staff to ensure the smooth running of the undergraduate tripos.

You will provide administrative and clerical support to the key academic officers in the Faculty (in particular the Director of Undergraduate Studies) and will help to coordinate teaching and examinations for all programmes, support application processes and act as the first point of contact for the Faculty's c.200 undergraduate students.

At the heart of a vast network of musical study, research and practice, the Faculty of Music is made up of 14 academic staff, 10 postdoctoral researchers, 21 affiliated lecturers and 10 support staff who work with around 200 undergraduates and 75 graduate students. As a world-leading centre of research the Faculty includes specialists in medieval and renaissance music, early modern music, nineteenth-century music, opera, popular music, ethnomusicology, performance studies, composition, and scientific approaches to music. The Faculty hosts the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies (CMPS) and Centre for Music and Science (CMS) and works closely with the Centre for Musical Performance (CMP). The Faculty facilities include a fully professional concert hall, a music library, a purpose-built studio and music computing facilities, as well as an impressive collection of historical instruments and a Javanese gamelan.

Further information about the Faculty of Music is available from the Faculty of Music 

Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to:

The Faculty Manager, Faculty of Music at facultymanager@mus.cam.ac.uk.

If you have any queries regarding the application process, please contact The School's HR Team at MusicHR@admin.cam.ac.uk.

The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Thursday 12 December 2024.

Interviews are planned for Friday 20 December 2024, subject to change.

To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click the 'Apply' button, above.

Please quote reference GT44201 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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