Administrative Officer

2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Job Description

About Us

The King’s community is dedicated to the service of society. King’s Strategic Vision 2029 sets out our vision for the future, shaped around five priority areas: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that services the world. Our ambitious Education Strategy sets out the actions that we must take to transform how we teach, how and where our students learn and how we support them during their time with us.

Within the Social Mobility & Widening Participation Department we believe all young people should be able to have high expectations for their future. This means equal access to education and career opportunities. We run programmes that aim to empower young people from under-represented backgrounds to access and succeed at university.

About the Role

The Administrative Officer will provide efficient administrative support for the Social Mobility and Widening Participation Department. This includes inbox management, financial management, diary management, data input and processing, as well as other wide-ranging administrative tasks.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

Key responsibilities
- Provide efficient administrative and office management support to the Social Mobility and Widening Participation Department
- Manage the department’s general inboxes and serve as a key point of contact for enquiries
- Take an active role in the administration of the day-to-day departmental financial administration and procurement
- Support the department’s leadership team with secretariat duties, including helping organise meetings, events and team-wide training sessions
- Undertake wide-ranging administrative tasks relating to events, evaluation, admissions, scholarships, and bursaries
- Maintain the department’s SharePoint and website
- The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Please clearly address how you meet the

essential criteria

Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking and completing tasks which require administrative and organisational skills
- Experience using Microsoft 365, as well as video conferencing products
- Experience of diary and inbox management
- Ability to clearly communicate information orally and in writing
- Ability to use initiative and judgement to resolve day-to-day problems
- Ability to manage multiple workload priorities and deliver work to deadlines
- Ability to decide own pattern of work and manage own workload and resources
- Ability to gather and manipulate data so that it can be interpreted by others

Further information

Interviews will be held using Microsoft Teams and will consist of competency-based questions linked closely to the essential and desirable criteria mentioned here.

Interviews are scheduled to take place online on Friday 17th June.



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