Assistant Curriculum and Assessment Manager

Brighton, UK

36.5 hours per week. Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).

Grade 6 starting at £34,610 to £38,784 per annum, pro rata if part time.

Fixed Term Contract

About the role

Brighton and Sussex Medical School invites applications for the post of Assistant Curriculum and Assessment Manager (Phase 1).

The post is based at the Medical Teaching Building, on the University of Sussex Falmer campus, Brighton. The post-holder will play a key role in the delivery of the Medical undergraduate degree programme in years 1 and 2.

About you

The post-holder reports to the Curriculum and Assessment Manager but works closely with members of BSMS Faculty and administrative colleagues particularly those in the Curriculum Support Team. In addition, the post-holder will liaise with appropriate colleagues in other administrative and academic units in the parent universities, and colleagues in the partner NHS Trust.

Applicants should have a good standard of education and possess excellent IT, communication and organisational skills. The post requires a high level of personal responsibility and initiative.

About our School

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is an equal partnership between the Universities of Sussex and Brighton together with NHS organisations throughout the South-East Region. BSMS is committed to inclusivity, sustainability, medical education in a multi-professional context, and promoting the highest possible standards in our teaching, clinical practice and research (ranging from early translational to applied).

Working together, our Academics, Technicians and Professional Services staff co-ordinate the passionate delivery of teaching and research, allowing us to remain one of the leading choices of medical schools in the UK. Our staff are multiskilled and work across varied teams, which are diverse, experienced and dedicated.

Our object as a School is to strive for excellence in education, training and research allowing us to support all in a constantly changing healthcare sector. We work to create a nurturing and supportive environment in which our staff and our students can succeed and thrive.

Our medical research has developed a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally.

Ultimately, our research aims to:

• improve medical treatment
• answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
• deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swan Award.

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it's our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion.

Further Key Information

Please contact Megan Pretlove ) for informal enquiries.

For full details and how to apply see our vacancies page.

The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.

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The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.

Visa queries:

The matching SOC code of the above post is 2329 Other educational professionals not elsewhere classified.

If an individual's initial CoS was issued before 4 April 2024, then the salary requirement is £31,300 which means that the salary of the post at Grade 6.1 would meet the salary requirement for continued sponsorship.

However if this is not the case, then the salary requirement is £41,700, which means that the successful candidate would need to use tradeable points to lower the salary requirement. Whether the post is sponsorable then depends on the individual circumstances, as well as the offered salary.

November 10, 2025 5:59 PM

November 2025

Fixed term until September 2026