Bursaries, Grants and Scholarships Administrator

About the Role

The Bursaries, Grants and Scholarships team sits within Registry Services and its purpose is to provide a student focused service to allocate various financial awards on behalf of Queen Mary, Schools and outside organisations.

Registry Services seeks to recruit a Bursaries, Grants and Scholarships Administrator to play a key role in the administration of the Queen Mary Bursary Scheme and support the administration of various financial awards including QM Prizes, Scholarships, the Expedition Fund, the Cambridge Long Vacation Scheme and the US Loans Programme. The post will involve delegated responsibility for specific areas of work within the team.

About You

The ideal candidate will have a proven background in higher education administration, including a detailed knowledge and understanding of student financial support and policies and a thorough understanding of relevant regulations.

About the Department

Registry Services is responsible for the maintenance of a student’s personal and academic record from the point of enrolment through to award, for the organisation and delivery of invigilated examinations, managing enquiries via the new Enquiry Management System Ask QM, the distribution of the Queen Mary bursary and other approved scholarships, ensuring compliance with immigration rules and dealing with academic and regulatory queries from both students and academic colleagues.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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