Senior Admissions Administrator

**Grade UE05, Salary Range: £23,487 to £27,116**
**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Postgraduate Admissions Office**
**Open ended/ Full-time (35 hours per week)**

**The Opportunity**:
To join a busy and friendly team and be responsible for providing a first class service to prospective students. The post-holder will be responsible for making admissions decisions as well as answering applicant enquiries. As a part of a large team, we are seeking a strong team player who will be dedicated to providing a professional, effective customer focussed admissions service to postgraduate applicants and enquirers in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and to promote admissions procedures that are fair, transparent, efficient, and in accordance with University policy.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Proven strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- A strong customer focussed attitude with experience of working in a customer-facing role
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good level of IT skills
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively
- Ability to work without supervision, prioritise own work, exercise judgement and initiative
- Ability to sustain a high performance whilst under pressure
- Resourcefulness and initiative to ensure effective, accurate task completion
- Desirable but not essential, knowledge or experience of working in the Higher Education sector particularly in admissions or working with international students

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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.

If invited for an interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages

About the Team

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a large and diverse part of the University. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Dorothy Miell, it has 13,800 undergraduates, 5,500 taught postgraduates, 1,300 research students and more than 3,800 academic and professional services staff. The College incorporates 11 Schools (Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in Social Sciences; History, Classics and Archaeology; Law; Literature, Languages and Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; and Social and Political Science), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Centre for Open Learning. The College is located on multiple sites across Edinburgh, with the majority of Schools and College Offices based close to the central George Square area. The College, which is recognised as one of the world's leading centres for the arts, humanities and social sciences in research and teaching, has been growing and investing strongly in recent years.

The College operates at the highest levels of international quality across a very wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences and submitted the work of more than 750 staff to 23 Units of Assessment in the Research Excellence Framework 2014. The College achieved a superb result, combining a large-scale, broad and diverse submission with very high quality outcomes: 86% of its research impact and 76% of the overall quality profile were assessed as world-leading (4*) and internationally excellent (3*). Using the widely used Research Power index (which combines the submission's overall score for 3* and 4* work with the volume of staff submitted), 12 of the College’s Units were ranked within the top five in the UK, and 18 were ranked first in Scotland. With an assessment of more than 95% at 3* and 4*, we're particularly proud of the outstanding research environment we create for staff and research students.

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 College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a large and diverse part of the University. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Dorot