Executive Support Administrator

About this role

Non-student facing, the SRM Executive Support Team (a small team of four people) provide administrative and operational support to around 200 staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys a fast-moving environment, is flexible and able to juggle multiple tasks whilst ensuring attention to detail.

The role may involve a proportion of the following:

• Providing a proactive executive support service including active diary management, organisation and administration of meetings and functions
• Responding to administration related enquiries from staff - including triaging generic email inbox, travel requests, contracts, supporting recruitment.
• Providing support for health and safety – collating health and safety checklists, reporting and recording issues
• Updating the Department’s intranet site (on SharePoint/Microsoft Teams) – updating guidance and process documents, ensuring information is easily accessible
• Recording and updating changes in staffing
• Supporting projects eg Clearing
• Undertaking routine financial transactions involving purchase orders, invoices, credit card, reconciliation, processing international student fee payments
• Recording and updating IT equipment inventory 

About you

To be successful in this role you will need:

• To enjoy working in a fast paced, ever-changing environment whilst ensuring attention to detail
• The ability to juggle and prioritise tasks, reliably delivering work to agreed timeframes
• To take a flexible approach
• To deliver high standards of customer service
• To handle confidential information with discretion and in accordance with Data Protection

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. We offer a wide range of employee benefits.   

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority candidates and as a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact:

Gwen Cruickshank on 0117 328 7056 or email: gwen.cruickshank@uwe.ac.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus on 4th of September 2025.

This is a full time, fixed-term post until 31/07/2026, working 37 hours per week. 

This post is not available on a job share basis.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, therefore, this role is campus based for 3 days per week, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of your right to work in the UK, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.

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