School Administrator

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Administrator to join them in providing excellent administrative support to the School of Biosciences. This is a fixed term maternity cover position.

Reporting to the PA to the Head of School, whilst also providing skilled administrative support to senior academic colleagues, you will possess excellent communication skills, strong interpersonal and influencing skills, together with an advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office. You will need to be highly organised, proactive, and able to work on your own initiative, sometimes under pressure and to competing/tight deadlines.

A good team player, you will have administration experience, excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, a high level of accuracy, experience with complex diary management and problem solving skills; focusing on administration support for senior staff within the School, organising high level meetings and events, meeting facilitation and minute taking including ad hoc projects as appropriate.

As requested via your line manager and/or Executive Assistant this role will also include providing administrative support across the wider Faculty PA and Administration team. You will be able to demonstrate a flexible approach to managing your workload.

What We Can Offer

In addition to salary, you will receive a yearly incremental pay rise, generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days holiday plus 7 university closure days and 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time roles), a generous pension, access to world-class leisure facilities on campus, a range of travel schemes, and supportive family friendly benefits including an excellent on-site nursery.

Further information

To apply please submit your CV and a cover letter via the apply online button at the bottom of this screen.

For an informal chat or queries regarding this role please contact Elise Frost Bridges e.frost-bridges@surrey.ac.uk

Interviews will be held on campus on the 13th January.

The University of Surrey is committed to providing an inclusive environment that offers equal opportunities for all. We value everyone in our community and are seeking to increase the diversity. Therefore, we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups, such as people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and people with disabilities.