Head of Student and Academic Services

5 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Salary: UE08 £48,350 - £59,421 per auum**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Health in Social Sciences**

**Full time - 35 hours per week**

**Open ended (Permanent)
The post holder will be a senior member of the School’s professional services team with responsibility for matters related to Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, and Postgraduate Research academic and student support services. Providing professional advice and guidance, the post holder will be accountable for the quality of services delivered across all aspects of teaching, learning, supervision, and student support within the school including professionally accredited programmes in Clinical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy and Nursing. Acting as the School representative to College and University committees, the post holder will manage the integration of policy and regulatory requirements into the activities of the team.

This post is full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working with a minimum of two days working on-campus.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Knowledge and understanding of the work practices, processes and procedures relevant to the role, including awareness of developments in the HE sector.
- Proven skills in planning, prioritisation, allocation and delegation of work.
- Experience of supervising staff, training and developing individuals and team building: demonstrable ability to empower and motivate staff, and to facilitate the implementation of lasting, service improvements and coordination.
- Ability to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of possible longer-term implications Experience of working and responding independently and dealing with unforeseen problems and circumstances.

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**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:

- A competitive salary of £48,350 - £59,421
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our **staff benefits page **(opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits

**Championing equality, diversity and inclusion**

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 **(opens new browser tab).

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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