Senior Teaching Office Administrator

**UE6 £28,756 to £33,309 per annum**
**College of Science and Engineering, School of Physics and Astronomy**
**Open-ended contract, 35 per week**
**1 post**

The School of Physics and Astronomy is looking for a Senior Teaching Office Administrator to oversee and co-ordinate the administrative support provided at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh (ROE), as line manager to the ROE-based team of administrative staff.

**The Opportunity**:
You will lead the Institute for Astronomy’s administrative activities, providing support and guidance to both academic staff and students. You will also contribute to the School’s wider Teaching and Graduate School activities and deputise for your line manager when required.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Typically you will have an HNC/HND or equivalent level qualifications plus 3 years’ relevant work experience.
- A detailed understanding of academic regulations, policies and procedures gained in a student-facing environment.
- Experience of using a student record system, both to update records and for reporting and data interrogation.
- Ability to supervise, train and develop other staff.

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**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.

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
The School of Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Science & Engineering and comprises the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP), the Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS) and the Institute for Astronomy (IfA). We have around seventy academic staff, over 100 research staff and around 50 professional services staff.

In the most recent Research Excellence Framework the School was ranked 2nd of the large Physics departments in UK universities and 4th overall. The submission was a joint exercise with St Andrews University (PHYESTA).

The School runs undergraduate programmes at BSc and MPhys level in Physics, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Computational Physics, Astrophysics and (jointly with the School of Chemistry) Chemical Physics. The undergraduate programme has flexible entry and exit points, creating courses of variable duration and level. The School accepts around 175 new undergraduates into its programmes each year and has current student populations of around 680 undergraduates, 55 taught postgraduates and 220 research postgraduates.

We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working and recognise and value diversity across all our staff and students. The School has an active programme offering support and professional development for all staff; providing mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.

The School of Physics and Astronomy holds Athena SWAN Silver and IoP Juno Champion awards, in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality.