Administrative Assistant

Grade UOE4 - £24,533 - £27,181 (Pro-rata)

Student Recruitment and Admissions

Part-time 0.5FTE (17.5 hours/week)

Fixed term until June 2025

We are looking to recruit an International Recruitment Administrative Assistant within our Student Recruitment and Admissions team (SRA) at the University of Edinburgh. The post will focus on the administrative support of a team of International Recruitment Managers focussing on the recruitment and conversion of international applicants to the university.

The successful candidate will work alongside another administrative assistant based in the same team.

There will also be opportunities to work with the wider SRA team.

The Opportunity:

The University has ambitious plans to sustain and diversify its international intake, with the International Recruitment Team playing a fundamental role in this. This post offers an exciting opportunity for a highly professional and customer-oriented individual wishing to develop their knowledge and skills, as well as support this area of student recruitment.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to provide high-level customer service
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Cultural Awareness

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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 and pension scheme , staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our staff benefits page (opens new browser tab) 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.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

Key dates to note:

Closing date for applications is Friday 20 September 2024 .

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Interviews will likely be held week commencing 30 September 2024 . If you have any questions about this role, please contact: [email protected]

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 (opens new browser tab) .