Senior Administrator

**Position Details**

College of Medicine and Health

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £29,647 to £31,460, with potential progression once in post to £35,388

Grade 5

Full Time, Permanent

Closing date: 7th May 2025

**Our offer to you**

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.

**Background**

The University of Birmingham has a large portfolio of clinical research projects conducted under the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, including a portfolio of trials that are conducted according to UK Clinical Trials regulations.

This post is located in the Clinical Research Compliance Team (CRCT), which forms part of the Research & Knowledge Transfer Office in the College of Medicine and Health. The CRCT as a team is responsible for ensuring researchers within the University are provided with tools and training that will help them to meet the standards as set out in the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research and any applicable regulations. The CRCT is also responsible for conducting a programme of compliance review activities across this portfolio of projects that includes audits, sponsor support visits (SSVs) and on-site monitoring activities. These activities are vital for ensuring compliance with the current regulatory framework.

The post holder is key to supporting these activities through providing administrative support to the CRCT, as well as University clinical research related oversight committees. Duties will include administrative support for the University’s quality management systems, secretariat support for oversight committees and administrative support to website maintenance. The post holder will also be responsible for event planning e.g., committee meetings, training sessions, workshops, compliance reviews and diary management. The post holder will be expected to further develop, review and maintain up-to-date filing systems and maintain existing databases, take an active administrative role before, during and after audits/inspections, and be responsible for drafting and editing documents which have complex formats and use scientific and medical terminology. Furthermore, the post holder is expected to support the compliance review activities for example through taking and writing up minutes of visits to sites or research teams.

**Role Summary**

As a senior administrator within a team/department you will provide support for a broad range of administrative duties, some of which may be complex. You may also be responsible for managing other staff or for supporting colleagues and sharing knowledge. You will be able to use your wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team. In order to flexibly use resource, you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.

The University of Birmingham has a large portfolio of clinic