Administrator - Research and Innovation Support Team

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Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About You

Flexible, proactive and highly organised, you will have the ability to prioritise effectively and operate without supervision, whilst contributing to team development where appropriate. You will have excellent IT skills with experience in the use of excel to manage and track data. Have an extensive knowledge of other MS office applications and the capacity to adapt to use a range of other programmes as required.

Your outstanding communication skills and demonstrable negotiation and liaison skills will equip you to manage sensitive information with empathy, whilst your ability to deliver an excellent level of service to staff and students will enhance the reputation of the Faculty, ensuring that you quickly establish yourself as a key member of our inclusive and highly experienced team.

About the Role

You will have the opportunity to develop and drive this newly created role located within a relatively new but expanding team, which supports a significant growth in research and innovation activity in the Faculty.

You will co-ordinate a range of administrative processes and deliver a highly skilled, responsive and professional support service to the Faculty research active staff who are involved in a wide variety of externally funded activity linked to the Faculty research themes. This will include developing and implementing processes to ensure the achievement of ethical consent for and tracking of outputs for all research projects in addition to the co-ordination of a variety administrative, secretarial and enquiry related duties. In addition, you will provide administrative support to academic staff and the Finance Team as required.

Rewards/Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer a range of specialist development sessions or courses and an award winning staff health & wellbeing programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means as well as opportunities to attend interactive sessions you are able to have a lunchtime stroll across our beautiful campus, book to get a trim from our onsite hairdresser, your car valeted, or get together with colleagues over free food and drink to watch the latest film on one of our Film Nights and so much more.

This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.

The University has been ranked Best University Workplace (Times Higher Education 2015), judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy you may wish to contact:Susan Harrison on [email protected]