Management Support Officer to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor Engagement

We are currently recruiting a role to join the Lancaster University Vice-Chancellor’s Office team. The team’s role within the university is to provide professional support to the Vice Chancellor and the senior team.  This one-year role would work primarily with the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Engagement, Sarah Kemp.  

This represents a fantastic opportunity for gaining wide professional experience, this is a superb opportunity for an early-career candidate to observe and participate in the functioning of a senior team.

The role will involve:

• Understanding the individual portfolios of each of the senior officers and supporting them, in combination with the existing team.  
• Professional tasks including event management, stakeholder liaison, project planning, research, preparing presentations and information packs, servicing meetings and providing briefings. 
• Specific professional projects on behalf of PVC-Engagement. 
• Elements of management training and professional development will be incorporated as part of a professional learning package. 

We are seeking one full-time candidate for a one-year contract term. This role will provisionally run from June to June but will be guided by the availability of the candidate. 

The VCO and Senior Team are based on D-Floor of University House and you will also work with the PVC engagement in a range of locations. There will be a requirement for travel, for which expenses will be paid. You will also be required to work at events, outside of office hours in a range of locations for which TOIL can be arranged. 

Informal enquiries can be made to James Fuller, Executive Support Officer, j.fuller2@lancaster.ac.uk. 

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