Doctoral School Administrator

5 days ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham Trent University Full time

Location: City Campus

Team: Doctoral School and Research Operations

Closing date: 22/07/2024

School / Directorate: DVC - Research and Enterprise

Part Time - 16 hours per week

About the Role

We are seeking a proactive individual with relevant experience of working in a busy administrative environment. They will be able to prioritise and multi-task, working to tight deadlines. They will be able to work independently as well as part of a team and possess excellent organisation and communication skills. Extensive experience of using IT systems to improve processes together with a proficient working knowledge of MS Office is required.

The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of the doctoral student lifecycle. The role will include student record maintenance, committee servicing, support to doctoral events and data collection. An ability to prioritise and organise your workload effectively is essential to this role.

For more details, please take a look at the role profile. We'll still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them perfectly. To ensure the diverse needs of our team are met we offer flexible part-time working patterns - we're focused on finding the right person for the role.

Interviews to be held week commencing 29 July 2024.

About Us

Nottingham Trent University Doctoral School is at the heart of research at Nottingham Trent University. It provides administrative support for doctoral programmes across all academic disciplines within the University.

The team offer a frontline service to students, staff, funding organisations and regulatory bodies connected with doctoral study and provides administrative support for doctoral students from admissions and enrolment through to thesis submission and examination. This offers a challenging and varied working environment for members of the team.

For any informal queries about the role or the team, please contact Chris Barenberg, Doctoral School Manager

Join Us

  • Hybrid working - we encourage and offer a mixture of office working and working from home. You're empowered to define how you work best for the benefits of your stakeholders.
  • Flexibility - take ownership over how you get your work done. We're open to different working patterns and approaches.
  • 25 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays and 5 university closure days pro rata.
  • Salary Sacrifice Retirement Savings Plan with life assurance and income protection. Available to colleagues who choose to opt out of the contractual pension scheme. Minimum colleague contributions of 0% matched with minimum NTU contributions of 8%.
  • Range of health and wellbeing services, voluntary benefits, discounts, and savings for all colleagues.
  • Access to a wealth of formal and informal professional development opportunities to develop your skills and advance your career.
  • And a whole lot more...

Come and be part of our success. Apply today.

£26,060 to £27,363 p.a. pro rata. Grade E



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