Department Administrator

This new part-time (0.6 FTE) post is available from February 2025 on a permanent basis.

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

Summary of the role
To provide high-quality administrative support to the Departments of Clinical & Biomedical Sciences (CBS) and Health & Community Sciences (HCS), supporting key departmental priorities.

The role ensures the frontline delivery of professional services, ensuring that business is delivered to deadlines. The role will be expected to be heavily involved in local themes of work including Department communication and committees, and REF and KEF preparation including, but not limited to, action planning and tracking, reporting on outcomes and ensuring deadlines are met. The role will contribute towards departmental projects, supporting the University’s Strategy 2030 and ensuring the success of UEMS. This is a varied and interesting role, 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 South Cloisters on the St Lukes, 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.

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 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 Chelsea Goss, Department Manager, Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, c.goss@exeter.ac.uk or Kirsty Mushing (not available before January 2025), Department Manager, Health & Community Sciences k.mushing2@exeter.ac.uk.

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