Faculty Executive Support Officer

Location: Greenwich and Medway Campuses

Part time hours: Full time

Interview date: To be confirmed

The Faculty of Engineering & Science is one of four faculties at the University of Greenwich, split across two campuses – the Medway Campus in Chatham Maritime, Kent, and the Greenwich Campus in Greenwich, London. Dedicated to inspirational learning, combining teaching with work placements and impactful research and is a complete hub for all STEM subjects within the University.

We are seeking to appoint 2 Faculty Executive Officers to provide administrative and secretarial support, to our 3 Head of Schools, as a team.

We have two positions available totalling 1.6 FTE

• 2 x 0.8 FTE or
• 1 FTE and 1 x 0.6 FTE totalling 1.6 FTE

Working within the wider Executive Admin Team, the role carries a broad and varied remit and would suit applicants who are keen to develop a professional career within a higher education executive support role.

The successful candidates must have relevant administrative and/or secretarial experience (including diary management and committee servicing); ability to organise and successfully manage high-profile events; demonstrate collaborative working across different functional areas; be able to establish and maintain good working relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels to contribute to an efficient support service; and poses excellent interpersonal and customer care skills. 

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to be principally based at either our Medway or Greenwich campuses with the expectation to regularly work from the other campus one or two days per week, on a rota basis.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact FES Head of Business Operations - Jacklyn Tubb J.Edwards-Tubb@gre.ac.uk

Should you have any recruitment related queries please contact the HR Recruitment Team on hrsr-fes@greenwich.ac.uk

We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values. 

The university welcomes people from diverse and underrepresented communities who can help the university to achieve its mission. 

We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion. 

We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form.

We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.

Further details: Job Description & Person Specification

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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