Postgraduate Research Administrative Assistant

1 month ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade - UE04 (£23,144 - £25,138)**
**College/School/Department - Business School**
**Contract type - Full-time, Permanent**
**Hours per week - 35
**We are looking for a Postgraduate Research Administrative Assistant to provide support to the School PhD and MSc by Research programmes.

**The Opportunity**:
This role plays a key part in supporting the lifecycle of the Business School Postgraduate Research (PGR) applicants and students. The post holder will work closely with the PGR Support Officer and PGR Support and Development Manager to provide excellent administrative support to PGR applicants, students, professional service colleagues and academic colleagues.

As part of a 4 person team, this role will support the admissions to our PGR programmes, provide support for PGR programme assessments, and assist with updating and maintaining student records.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Excellent communication skills, including verbal and written.
- A friendly and helpful manner with an understanding and care for good customer service.
- Experience of managing own workload within a busy environment and able to prioritise tasks with competing deadlines.
- The ability to work well as part of a team.
- Good IT skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office and social media.

Click to view a copy of the full job description

**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. Click to 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.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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