HR Assistant

[UE04] [£21,630-£23,715 pro-rata for 17.5 hours per week]

[College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences /School of History, Classics and Archaeology]

[Part time
- 17.5 Hours per week]

**The Opportunity**:
A key member of the School Resources Team, the post-holder is responsible for delivery of routine HR administrative support to the management team, academic and administrative staff across the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Focused on administrative support for the School’s recruitment processes, updating and maintenance of HR related systems and records, as well as responding to the HR enquiries, the post-holder is managed by the School HR Administrator.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 2/3, ONC or equivalent) plus relevant work experience OR School education to Standard Grade or equivalent plus relevant work experience.
- Competent IT skills especially with a working knowledge of MS Office packages such as Word, Outlook and Excel, with an ability to learn how to use web-based (and other IT) packages.
- Strong organisational skills, with ability to plan and prioritise, work without close supervision, and manage a range of projects simultaneously.
- Ability to complete work accurately, on time and to appropriate standards.
- Good interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, including the ability to build friendly relationships, be accessible and deal with queries in a professional, sensitive and timely manner.

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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. 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.

Interviews will be held shortly after closing date.

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

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 History, Classics and Archaeology is part of the College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, founded in August 2002. It is co-located in a completely refurbished 'A' listed building designed by the distinguished Scottish architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in the nineteenth century, with state of the art facilities for staff and students.

The School combines the expertise of the departments of History, Classics and Archaeology along with the Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict and the Edinburgh Centre for Global History.

We are one of the largest, most distinguished and most highly ranked centres for the study of the human past in Europe, with over 140 teaching, research and administrative staff. Teaching is provided to around 1500 undergraduate and over 300 postgraduate students drawn from some 40 countries. Around 600 of our students are from outside the UK, reflecting the School's high international reputation.

The range of choice in our programmes is remarkably diverse while at the same time the structure allows for study in depth of particular areas, themes and periods. The departments have an outstanding international reputation for research and enjoy a very lively research culture.