Administrative Secretary

21 hours ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**Grade UE05: £24,285 - £27,929 per annum pro rata**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science / **School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences / **Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre**

**Part-time: 17.5 hours per week**

**Fixed-term: approx. 8 months**

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit a fixed term, part time, Administrative Secretary.

**The Opportunity**:
The post holder will assist the Director in the running of the Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre, and will monitor and review basic office administrative procedures to enable the Centre to operate and play a key role in assisting in the organisation, management and operation of the Centre.

The Centre carries out research into the causes and treatment of dementia. Current projects include evaluating cognitive assessments used in diagnosis, and developing methods to predict whether or not a particular patient will respond positively to current drugs, which have been shown to work inconsistently. Researchers also aim to develop and maintain a dementia brain tissue bank (the Scottish Dementia Brain Tissue Bank).

The post holder will actively support and contribute to the schools success and will be encouraged to also deliver ideas for continuous improvement opportunities as they arise.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 3, ONC or equivalent) plus proven work experience in a relevant role; Or School education to standard grade or equivalent plus proven relevant work experience.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a busy office/administrative based role (e.g executive assistant, dept. secretary, admin officer etc.)
- Initiative and judgment to resolve many day-to-day problems independently.
- Experience of working in a research or academic environment in an independently and effectively manner within a multi-disciplinary, multi-collaborative environment would be highly desirable.

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.

**Application information**:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until _after _an offer has been made).

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.

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