Department Administrator

**Salary**

**Contractual hours**

21.9

**Package**

Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme.

**Job category/type**

Admin, Professional, Managerial

**Date posted**

18/12/2024

**Job reference**

P97049

**Education and Academic Services-**Medical School, UEMS**

This new part-time (0.6 FTE) post is available from February 2025 on a permanent basis

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working - some time on campus and some from home.

**Summary of the role**

To provide high quality administrative support to the Departments of Clinical & Biomedical Sciences (CBS) and Health & Community Sciences (HCS), supporting key departmental priorities.

The CBS and HCS departments are based within the University of Exeter Medical School (UEMS), undertaking internationally excellent research and delivering sector-leading education in an inclusive and supportive working environment. The departments enjoy a close working relationship with NHS partners, both from a research and education perspective.

The role ensures the frontline delivery of professional services, ensuring that business is delivered to deadlines. The role will be expected to be heavily involved in local themes of work including Department communication and committees, and REF and KEF preparation including, but not limited to, action planning and tracking, reporting on outcomes and ensuring deadlines are met. The role will contribute towards departmental projects, supporting the University’s Strategy 2030 and ensuring the success of UEMS. This is a varied and interesting role, which requires the ability to respond to, manage and follow up on a diverse range of queries from a variety of internal and external stakeholders in a customer/end user orientated manner. The post will be based in South Cloisters on the St Lukes, Exeter Campus, and we can offer hybrid working arrangements.

**Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.**

**The University of Exeter**

We are a member of the prestigious Russell Group of research-intensive universities and in the top 200 universities in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 and QS World University Ranking 2024). We combine world-class teaching with world-class research, achieving a Gold rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework Award 2023, underpinned by Gold ratings for Student Experience and Student Outcomes.

Our world-leading research impact has grown more than any other Russell Group university in recent years, and we are home to some of the world’s most influential researchers, seeking to answer some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. More than 99 percent of our research is of international quality and 47 percent is world-leading (2021 Research Excellence Framework).

We encourage proactive engagement with industry, business and community partners to enhance the impact of research and education and improve the employability of our students. Read about our world leading research - Green Futures and how we are transforming education for a changing world. We are located in a beautiful part of the country and Exeter (a fast growing tech hub) is one of only a few UK cities to have been designated as a UNESCO Creative City

**Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment**

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

**Benefits**

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

- 39 days leave per year
- options for flexible working
- numerous discounts at leading retailers
- onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
- sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to six weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
- stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

**Further information