Team Leader (Departmental Administration)

FTE: 1.0 FTE (working 37 hours per week)

Salary: UH6 £32,296 - £37,999 per annum depending on skills and experience

Annual Leave: 25 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year

Location: College Lane Campus, Hatfield 

Main duties and responsibilities 

The School of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences is looking for an experienced Team Leader to join our team of professional staff. The Team Leader is required to supervise and mentor Departmental Administrators who are responsible for a range of functions that support the operational development of School-based business administration processes; this includes documenting, and where appropriate making changes to, processes and providing support to the Heads of Department and academic staff in the school.  

Skills and experience required

You must have substantial proven administrative experience in a complex and dynamic organisation at an appropriate level including proven experience of monitoring and supervision. In addition to this, you must have proven experience of working with a wide range of people in a customer focused environment as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

You will need to be able to demonstrate flexibility towards team and workload requirements, the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. Familiarity with computerised systems are essential. You will also bring professional or specialist knowledge or experience to mentor school administrators on complex processes. 

Qualifications required

You must be educated a minimum of a degree or equivalent, or proven experience.

University of Hertfordshire Flexible Location Principles

The University of Hertfordshire operates a set of Flexible Location principles which allow individual managers to determine flexibility for their teams based on the business needs of the school and the services they provide. As we are a campus-based University, our students and colleagues will expect our staff to be available face to face as well as through other media and our staff are expected to be available to work on campus. If you would like further information about this, we would be very happy to discuss with you at the interview stage.

Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria. Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.

We regret that we are unable to offer UKVI sponsorship for this post; applicants will either hold UK Right to Work, or demonstrate access to UK Right to Work, before an offer is made.

Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Gelvinder Rhodes (School Business Manager) g.rhodes@herts.ac.uk; Kim Chase (Deputy School Business Manager) k.chase@herts.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 16 February 2026

Interview Date: TBC

Our vision is to transform lives: UH is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and building a diverse community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their protected characteristics, and recognise there are different ways applicants may achieve the criteria in this document. We offer a range of employee benefits including generous annual leave, flexible location opportunities within the UK, discounted Sports Village memberships and free Active Staff sessions, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. #GoHerts

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