Timetable Officer

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**Timetable Officer 0.5 FTE**

Closing Date 12 p.m. (Noon) on 25 July 2023

Interview Date Tuesday 8th August 2023

Grade/Salary Grade 6

Hours 17.5 (0.5 FTE)

Type of Contract Permanent

Annual Leave Entitlement 33 days plus 8 University closure days pro rata

Pension Abertay University Pension Scheme
(AUPS)

Recruiting Manager Colin Rae
Student Administration Manager

Contact

Area Academic Services

Location Bell Street, Dundee

**Contents Section**

Abertay University **1**
The Service & Area **2**

The Role **3**

Person Specification **4**

Competencies **5**

Application Process **6**

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1. Abertay University

Abertay University is a modern, pioneering, and ambitious university with around
5,000 students. We have a strong and evolutionary tradition of preparing students for the industries and jobs of the modern world. Abertay has made its mark with high
- quality, well-directed teaching and research which, in turn, provides a stimulating and enriching experience for our students.

Abertay University has achieved the Athena Swan Bronze Award, recognising the university’s achievements in respect of gender equality. The university is also proud to hold the Race Equality Charter Mark Bronze Award for our ongoing commitment and active steps to improving race equality for our staff and students. ****:

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Visit our website for more information on:

- Working at Abertay
- Teaching and Learning
- Research

**The City of Dundee**
Dundee is a historic city set in a beautiful, sunny location on the east coast of Scotland.
As well as being a compact city, Dundee has great schools and beautiful surrounding countryside. Just a little over an hour’s drive away from Edinburgh, Glasgow and
Aberdeen, Dundee’s property prices can be half those of Scotland’s larger cities.

Dundee is the UK's first UNESCO City of Design based on its contributions to medical research and the creative industries. From September 2018 Dundee became home to the second Victoria and Albert Museum, the V&A Museum of Design.

**The Campus**
The heart of the University lies in Bell Street, with most teaching and learning facilities, offices, research centres, and the Library all within just a few yards of each other.
- You can find out more about the city and Abertay’s campus by watching our Working at Abertay video. _

**Employment within Abertay**

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2. The Service and Area

The role is located within the Directorate of Student Academic Services (SAcS). The key operational priorities for SAcS during 2020-25 period are to champion the student experience (including supporting student learning); prepare students for a world of work to enhance their employability; to increase the organisation’s administrative effectiveness and efficiency; to support teaching excellence and research impact. SAcS has three areas of delivery; these are:
**Academic Services** is responsible for a range of activities relating to academic administration and governance. The team manages a range of student processes, including registration, timetabling, assessment, academic appeals, academic progression and awards. Academic Services supports Academic Quality and
Standards Committee, the Academic Leadership Group as well as School Academic
Committees and Assessment Boards, and handles student discipline and complaints for the University.

**Library Services** is responsible for a range of activities relating to the acquisition of academic and digital skills (including English for academic purposes), technology enhanced learning, management of library collections and journals, supporting early career researchers’ (including PGR student) development of digital scholarship and information management skills, and enabling learners and researchers access published scholarly information and data.

**Student Services** is responsible for providing information, advice, guidance and counselling. The professionally trained staff provide support to the student community on career management, placements, disability, student funding, welfare concerns, student visas, mental health and counselling, as well as providing general student information and advice on University-related issues via the Support Enquiry
Zone (SEZ)

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3. The Role

**Role Specific Duties and Responsibilities**

Main purpose of the Role
The Timetable Officer will be located within the Academic Services team (part of the
Directorate of Student and Academic Services) and will work with Academic Schools and other University Directorates to provide a high-level administrative support.

Reporting to the Student Administration Manager, you will work closely with the full
- time Timetable Officer and be responsible for day-to-day operational management, co-ordination and enhancement of institutional timetabling for teaching and exams.
You will ensure that the University’s timetabling principles are adhered to in order to achieve a student-centred timetable and efficient use of space.
You will produce ma