Assistant Committees and Casework Officer

About the role

As Assistant Committees and Casework Officer, you will support the Academic Committees and Student Casework Manager with casework in matters of student complaints, appeals, discipline, and fitness to practise, ensuring cases are progressed in compliance with policies and procedures. In addition, you will be a key contact between the School and the School Office teams for matters related to student casework. You will collaborate with academic colleagues and other professional services colleagues across the school and both partner universities. You will give advice about student casework and policy, and academic committee functions.

About you

Ideally, you will have relevant experience of working with students in higher education. You will have the skills to manage your own workload and at times, support other colleagues. You will communicate clearly with the team, line management, and stakeholders.

About our School

We are a diverse, collaborative research community with expertise in a wide variety of research areas, from laboratory research through to social science and clinical studies. Our close integration collaborations with local NHS organizations allows our researchers to work directly with the local population, improving their health while developing research work that can be applied nationally and globally.

Here, our medical research has and continues to develop a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally. Ultimately, our research aims to:

• improve medical diagnosis and treatment
• answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
• deliver more personalised healthcare to patients

We are passionate about training and supporting our researchers at all levels, to deliver research that is relevant to our stakeholders, accelerate its recognition and foster adoption of our findings to catalyse new research impact.

Please find further information regarding the School at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swann Award.

Further Key Information

Please contact Ellie Woolcott E.Woolcott@bsms.ac.uk for informal enquiries.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK. 

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