Assistant Director Study Support

2 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE08: £44,414.00 - £52,841.00 Per Annum**

**Disability & Learning Support Service**

**Open Ended Contract - Permanent: Full Time - 35 Hours per Week
We are looking for an experienced people manager to join our Team. You will be an enthusiastic, motivated and empathetic individual with relevant experience to be able to support our mental health and autism specialist mentors and influence and develop operational policy and practice in the Service.

**The Opportunity**:
A fantastic opportunity to join an expanding Team whose key role is to support disabled and neurodiverse students to participate fully and succeed in their chosen courses of study. You will lead a team of mental health and autism specialist mentors, facilitate/manage change programmes to deliver a more effective service and work with management team colleagues to ensure the provision of a high quality, student-focussed service to students and stakeholders.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Educated to degree level
- Relevant professional training e.g. management
- Significant experience in a senior/similar managerial position.
- Previous experience of managing staff.
- Experience and understanding of strategic planning.
- Understanding of, and commitment to, promoting equality and inclusion, particularly disability.
- Ability to work effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal, analytical and written communication
- Resilience and ability to work flexibly and under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative and to lead a team, delegating effectively while maintaining consistent judgement.

Click **here **for 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. 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 Disability & Learning Support Service are engaged in Hybrid Working with most team members working a balance of campus and remote working. Due to the nature of this role, please note that it cannot be entirely fulfilled by remote working

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.

**Interviews will be held in late July.**

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.

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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