Teaching Services Officer

**UE06 £29,619 - £34,308 per annum**

**Teaching & Student Services Team, School of Social and Political Science**

**Open-ended contract**

**Full-time, 35 hours per week**

**1 post available**

We are looking for a Teaching Services Officer to join the large Teaching Office team within the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

**The Opportunity**:
You will be a leading partner in the SPS Teaching Office’s delivery, development, and continuous improvement of teaching and assessment services to students and staff for a suite of courses. You will be both a member of the Office’s leadership team and a leader of a team within that Office.

This will involve allocating work to and providing supervision and guidance to a team of course administrators supporting the delivery of the School’s teaching and assessment in the Teaching Office. Responsive to change, you will work closely with other key members of academic and professional services staff on issues of forward planning, development, change management and implementation of services to ensure effective and continuous improvement of delivery of services to students and staff.

The focus of this vacancy is to lead on undergraduate course administration and assessment support.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of the work practices, standards, policies, relevant systems, and processes relevant to the delivery of teaching and assessment.
- The ability to analyse and solve problems with an appreciation of possible longer-term implications.
- Proven ability and experience of training and/or supervising staff, allocating and prioritising their work and monitoring individual progress and performance.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Commitment to, and the ability to provide, excellence in the delivery of services.

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 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.

**Notes for Applicants**:
Applicants should submit three documents: a CV, a brief covering letter and a personal statement. The personal statement should detail how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined in the ‘Knowledge, Skills and Experience’ section of the job description. It is suggested that this is structured a series of headings listing each criteria accompanied by a short paragraph for each, providing examples of where your skills and experience meet each of these competencies.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held **in early September.**

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.

The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) is one of the largest and most successful schools of social science in the UK, with global reach and local and global impact. Our goals are to promote excellence in education, research and innovation. The School comprises six Subject Areas plus a number of research and teaching centres and institutes, and a number of cross-Subject consortia and other units. The academic staff complement currently numbers c.200fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 1,100 undergraduate students on its programmes of study, over 500 taught postgraduates, and over 300 doctoral researchers.

In REF 2014, the School returned 96% of its eligible staff from Professors to e