Research Administrator

**Research Administrator**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Edinburgh College of Art, Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Office (RKEI Office)**

**Grade: UE05 Salary Range: £24,285.00 - £27,929.00 (per annum)**

**Open-ended contract (permanent role)**

**Full time (35 hours/week)**

**The Opportunity**:
All members of the team provide cover for each other to ensure adequate service across the Research, KE and Impact Office when other members of the team are on leave or to maintain adequate service at peak times.

**Your Skills and Attributes for success**:

- Educated to at least N/SVQ 3 or equivalent level, plus typically at least 2 years’ relevant administrative work experience in an HEI Research Office environment.
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills: ability to exercise judgement and initiative to work without direct supervision and prioritise own work within the annual cycle and in response to academic-driven developments.
- Ability to sustain a high performance whilst under pressure.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal competence.
- Strong IT skills and ability to quickly learn to use a range of packages including non-standard systems, such as PURE (REF submission) and Worktribe (grant preparation and maintenance).
- Ability to work as a team member and to motivate and guide others.

**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 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.

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.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

Edinburgh College of Art is a large and diverse school within the University of Edinburgh's College of Humanities and Social Science. It is comprised of the Schools of Art, Design, History of Art, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Reid School of Music.

Almost 3,000 students and 300 staff study and work at ECA and we enjoy strong relationships with museums, galleries, archives, practitioners and industry partners in Edinburgh, Scotland, the UK and internationally.

Edinburgh College of Art is committed to equal and fair treatment of all its employees and in recognition of the positive promotion of diversity and gender equality among staff and students, Athena SWAN granted the Edinburgh College of Art a Bronze Award in 2017.