Teaching Governance Administrator

**Grade UE05 (£24,285 - £27,929)**

**School of Social and Political Science**

**Open-ended contract**

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

**1 post available
We are looking for a Teaching Governance Administrator to join the newly established Quality Assurance and Curriculum team within the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.

**The Opportunity**:
You will pay a key role in ensuring that teaching and student services policies and procedures, including quality assurance, are embedded and completed to the required standard within the correct time frame and with an enhancement focused approach. You will act as a key point of contact for day to day support and advice for academic and professional services staff on matters of quality assurance and procedures.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Proven ability to understand, explain, and work with regulations and requirements, and policy and procedures
- Previous experience of contributing significantly to change processes and service enhancement within an educational environment
- Resilience, resourcefulness and initiative, in combination with the ability to work well as part of a team
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail

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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.

**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-November

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 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 early career researchers; a strategy that combined excellence with inclusion. All four Units of Assessment to which SPS contributed were rated amongst the top eight in the UK, and number one in Scotland, for their breadth and quality of research. Overall 36% of our research activity was classified as world leading with a further 41% assessed as internationally excellent. For two of those four Units of Assessment - Politics and International Relations, and Social Policy and Social Work - the whole of the research environment achieved the highest possible rating and was judged to be world leading.