Property & Services Administrator

**Salary**:

- £23,300-£27,650

**Location**:

- Cambridge

**Country**:

- UK

**Business Unit**:

- Operations

**Vacancy Type**:

- Permanent

**Closing Date**:

- 29 June 2025

**Meet the recruiter**:

- Ian Brooks

**Salary**: £23,300-£27,650 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2 days from home after initial training period)

Contract: Full time, permanent (35 hours per week)

**We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.**

Are you a proactive and organised administrator with a passion for keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes? Join our Property and Services team, where your work will directly support the smooth operation of all UK Cambridge University Press & Assessment sites.

**About the role**

As a Property & Services Administrator, you'll be at the heart of our facilities operations—managing helpdesk requests, coordinating contractors, supporting senior leadership, and ensuring our spaces are safe, functional, and welcoming. From procurement and document management to event coordination and compliance, your role will be varied, impactful, and essential to our success.

**Please note**: During your first 12 weeks, you'll be based on-site full-time to complete your training and get to know the team. Once we are satisfied your training is complete, you'll enjoy a hybrid working pattern with two days a week from home.

**About you**

You are a highly organised and proactive professional with experience managing accommodation bookings, property maintenance, and administrative processes across multiple sites. You bring a strong background in administrative roles, particularly those involving sales order processing and helpdesk systems, and you're confident managing multiple responsibilities while maintaining a high standard of service.

You're comfortable using platforms such as Zendesk, AppSpace, and Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), or are keen to learn them as part of your development.

**You'll also be someone who**:

- Has excellent organisational and time management skills
- Communicates clearly and professionally, both in writing and in person
- Is proactive in solving problems and improving processes
- Works well independently and as part of a collaborative team
- Is flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

**Rewards and benefits**

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes

We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements._
- _**Why join us**
- Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. _