Job Description

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School Management Executive Coordinator

Grade - UE06 (\xc2\xa331,396 - \xc2\xa336,024)

School/Department - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contract Type - Open ended, Full time

1 x position available

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit a new full time, open-ended School Management Executive Coordinator.

The Opportunity:

The post holder will provide high-level professional, administrative services to the Head of School and Director of Professional Services, overseeing key areas of scheduling and query management.

They will have demonstrable executive assistant experience which they will utilise to act as key facilitator and triage of communication to the Head of School and Director of Professional Services, ensuring that outward communications represent the School and wider University ethos.

The successful candidate must be extremely confident in working independently, and will also act as line manager to the School\'s management executive assistant function.

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences provides an exciting work environment through its three subject areas that have a diverse and dynamic research and teaching portfolio.

The post holder will actively support and contribute to the schools success and will be encouraged to also deliver ideas for continuous improvement opportunities as they arise.

The role shall be based within Dugald Stewart Building (Central Campus) with opportunities for discussion on informal hybrid workplace arrangements available at the time of offer.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• A high degree of personal initiative, exceptional organisational and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• A proven background and strongly developed sense of customer service delivery, especially in a fast paced environment, alongside previous work experience in a personal/executive assistant related role.
• Initiative and judgment to resolve many day-to-day problems independently, with a proactive approach to investigating resolutions. Experience of liaison with, and managing complex logistical arrangements at a senior level.
• Awareness of relevant higher education sectoral issues, policies and procedures.
• Proven experience in communications and or policy related role would be highly desirable.

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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 , staff discounts, , flexible working and much more. Access our for further information and use our 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.

PPLS welcomes applications from candidates belonging to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the department, including, but not limited to, males and ethnic minorities.

Interviews will be held late September and we shall allow at least 1.5 weeks\' notice to shortlisted candidates ahead of the interview date.

A start date of on or around mid October 2023 is preferable but this can be negotiated for the most appropriate candidate as required.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office\'s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa

Application information:

We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).

We invite candidates to use their cover letter to highlight professional and personal experiences that maybe relevant to role. PPLS interview panels will take submitted documents into account when assessing applications in line with listed criteria, including acknowledging areas of potential impact such as caring responsibilities, family leave and health related matters.

More information on how to submit your application can be found .

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our webpages

About Us: 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.

About the Team:

The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is a large and diverse part of the University. Led by Vice-Principal Professor Sarah Prescott, it has over 16,000 undergraduates, over 8,400 postgraduate taught students, 1,300 research students and more than 4,000 academic and professional services staff. The College incorporates 11 Schools (Business; Divinity; Economics; Edinburgh College of Art; Education; Health in Social Sciences; History, Classics and Archaeology; Law; Literature, Languages and Cultures; Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences; and Social and Political Science), the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Centre for Open Learning. The College is located on multiple sites across Edinburgh, with the majority of Schools and College Offices based close to the central George Square area. The College, which is recognised as one of the world\'s leading centres for the arts, humanities and social sciences in research and teaching, has been growing and investing strongly in recent years.

The College operates at the highest levels of international quality across a very wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences and submitted 1,130 staff across 20 Units of Assessment in the REF2021. The College achieved a superb result, combining a large-scale, broad and diverse submission with very high quality outcomes: 86% of our submission was assessed as being world-leading or internationally excellent. Of the 20 Units we led or joint led, two came first in the UK for breadth and quality (Sociology, and Anthropology & Development Studies). Thirteen were ranked in the top 5. We are incredibly proud of our research environment score, which achieved a remarkable 100% in the two top categories of world-leading and internationally excellent. This part of the assessment measures the \'vitality and sustainability\' of the schools and research centres in which research and impact is supported. This is a wonderful recognition of collegial, supportive and inclusive research culture. Within CAHSS we celebrate the contribution all of our staff made to the REF - not just our researchers, but our technical and professional services, our postgraduate and early career researchers, and our students, all of whom contribute to our flourishing environment.

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