Senior Administrator for C-FLEET/E-Textiles Network and Team NANO project

This post presents an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated administrator to work in the Centre for Flexible Electronics E-Textiles (C-FLEET) supporting the E-textiles Network, E-Textiles Conference series and the Team-NANO project. You will support activities related to the network/conference/project, including maintaining the websites and database, organising meetings, workshops and annual conferences, organising network newsletters and dealing with enquiries from the network community.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Relevant experience and success in similar work in administration.
• Up-to-date MS Office skills, including Outlook, Excel, Word, SharePoint.
• Ability to independently organise activities and events (and attend if required) ensuring all activities and deliverables run efficiently by coordinating diaries, booking venues, setting and communicating programme schedules, liaising with appropriate key stakeholder groups, and managing hospitality and visitor arrangements.
• Ability to raise requisitions, process invoices and monitor expenditure.
• Ability to maintain the E-textiles Network and E-Textiles Conference web pages with responsibility for site structures and routine content.
• Ability to lead the promotion of all events across social media channels, the preparation of project-related media such as email Newsletters, and arrange promotional materials such as leaflets, posters, pens, bags
• Ability to use own initiative, prioritising a conflicting workload and suggest and implement practical and effective solutions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience in taking meeting minutes.

The post will be held in the Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton. Ranked in the top one per cent of universities globally and among the UK’s top 20 for research, the University of Southampton has an international reputation for its research, teaching and enterprise activities.

The post will be part of the Faculty Operating Service (FOS) that works in partnership with the academic community, other professional services and the wider University to support Faculties across the triple helix of education, research and enterprise to achieve groundbreaking research and deliver an outstanding student experience. The FOS team is the integral and embedded professional service directly involved in running and maintaining the Faculty and is key to driving continual improvements and ensuring best practices.

The University of Southampton holds an Athena Swan Silver Award and we believe equality and diversity are fundamental to making the University of Southampton a vibrant, proud and successful organisation.  A diverse workforce, with people from different racial, educational and social backgrounds and a range of ages, opens up a wealth of possibilities for the University. The University has a generous maternity policy and onsite childcare facilities. Other benefits include state-of-the-art on-campus sports, arts and culture facilities, a full programme of events and a range of staff discounts.

For further information please contact Professor Steve Beeby tel. +44 23 8059 6663, email: spb@ecs.soton.ac.uk 

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