Research Administrator

4 days ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE05: £25,285.00 - £28,929.00 Per Annum, Pro Rata.**

**CAHSS / Moray House School of Education and Sport (MHSES) / Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact (RKEI) Office.**

**Open Ended Contract - Permanent; Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week.**

We are seeking a well-organised and experienced administrator to provide support for research and knowledge exchange activities. The post is part of the MHSES RKEI Office and is aligned with the Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) and designated research thematic hub(s).

**The Opportunity**:
The post holder will provide administrative support to ensure the smooth running of CREID and research thematic hub(s) alongside the Centre Director and Hub lead(s). The role provides general administration, event organisation, communications, administration of research project grants in liaison with the RKEI Office and general financial administration including the management of transactions, maintaining financial records and the preparation of regular reports.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Experience of routine financial administration including monitoring and reporting of financial information.
- Excellent interpersonal and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to use initiative and judgment to resolve problems, to quickly learn and master new processes
- Strong IT skills in MS Office especially Excel to produce a range of work documents and reports.
- Excellent written communication with experience of producing external communications across a range of media.
- Knowledge or experience of event planning.

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

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

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

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