Administrative Assistant/ Receptionist

1 month ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE03 £21,978 to £22,681 per annum (A revised salary range for this grade of £22,214 to £24,248 is planned to take effect from Spring 2024)**

**Accommodation, Catering and Events - Property and Residential Services**

**Open ended, full time (35 hours per week)**

We are looking for an engaging and enthusiastic Administrative Assistant to join our accommodation team based at a dynamic Reception in O’Shea Hall student accommodation.

**The Opportunity**:
An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the Accommodation Team (Property and Residential Services) at The University of Edinburgh.
This customer focused role will be based at O’Shea Hall student accommodation on our Holyrood campus, boasting a fantastic and convenient city centre location. O’Shea Hall is home to approximately 1200 post graduate student residents living across 8 varied, modern accommodation blocks.

As Administrative Assistant, you will assist in the delivery of a wide range of administrative and Reception services whilst supporting the daily operations of a busy student halls of residence. You will work closely and flexibly with the other members of the Accommodation Team to provide an outstanding service to students, helping to ensure a comfortable and secure living and working environment for everyone at O’Shea Hall.

As part of a world-changing, world-leading University, we provide an exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work with lots of development opportunities.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Experience of working in a busy customer service environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisational skills, able to manage a wide range of operational and staff demands.
- Ability to plan ahead and work under pressure.

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description **here**

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

**Key dates to note**

**Interviews will be held within 2 weeks of the closing date.



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