Job Description

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The role of the Faculty Executive Assistant and Project Coordinator is to support and enable the Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor (FPVC) and their Leadership Team, and to engage professionally with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring that key activities are carried out smoothly, effectively and proactively. The role holder will use their initiative and judgement to support and progress ad hoc project-based activity related to the work of the Leadership Team. This exciting role will support our activity in The Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences.

The role holder will act in a highly facilitative way, showing a combination of focus and flexibility along with excellent communication and organisation skills and strong self-motivation when working in a fast-paced environment, and bring relevant subject-matter experience to the role, ensuring that the FPVC is supported with clear and timely information and insight.

Further information is available in the .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Dr Lizzy James, Assistant Director of Faculty Operations (lizzy.james@northumbria.ac.uk).

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At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow\'s challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.

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Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. To say thank you, we offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and .

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We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme.

The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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