Graduate School Scholarship and Funding Coordinator

**Grade UE06 £29,619 - £34,308 per annum**

**College of Science and Engineering, School of Informatics**

**Open Ended, Full time, 35 hours per week**

**One post available**

We are looking for to recruit a Graduate School Scholarships and Funding Coordinator who will be responsible for leading the day-to-day delivery of the Graduate School’s PGR admissions and selection, scholarships and funding, pre-arrival and induction responsibilities.

**The Opportunity**:
The post holder will use their experience and detailed understanding of established PG admissions, funding & finance policies, procedures and regulations, and exercise their expert knowledge, judgement and initiative to skilfully oversee a busy administrative workload linked to the School’s complex PGR admissions, selection, scholarships and funding portfolio. They will also lead on the pre-arrival and induction activities as new students commence their PGR programmes.

The Graduate School Scholarships and Funding Coordinator will line manage two members of the Graduate School team and will deputise, occasionally, for the Graduate School Manager.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:
Essential
- Educated to degree level or HNC/HND or equivalent level qualifications, plus a minimum of 3 years’ relevant work experience in an HEI.
- Comprehensive and demonstrable knowledge of PG admissions policies and processes, and experience working in accordance with set regulations, policies, and processes in a PG admissions and/or scholarships related work environment.
- Experience coordinating PG scholarships and funding and ensuring compliance with complex funding terms and conditions; an ability to manage, interpret, report and analyse data from student and financial data sets.
- Line management experience and an established ability to oversee and direct the work of others.
- Proven ability to work independently, plan own work activities, and that of others, to ensure effective service delivery, resolving conflicting timescales and priorities independently as well as an ability operate in a team environment.
- Excellent communication (written, verbal and presentational) and interpersonal skills, and initiative to respond to scholarships and funding related queries and issues and to decide on the most appropriate action.
- Proven ability to work as a team member, and a willingness to work flexibly and at times under pressure to meet time critical deadlines with competing priorities.
- Excellent computing and systems competency commensurate with the requirements of the role (including but not limited to MS Office, Outlook, internal student and financial databases); demonstrable experience of effectively using and working with HEI student records and database systems.

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**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. Click to access our **staff benefits page **(opens new browser tab) 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.

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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.

Informatics is the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information. Research in Informatics promises to take information technology to a new level, and to place information at the heart of 21st century science, technology and society. The School enjoys collaborations across many disciplines in the University, spanning all three College, and also participates as a strategic partner in the Alan Turing Institute and, with Heriot-Watt University, in the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.

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