Administrative Assistant

Faculty Operations

This permanent, full-time post is available immediately.

This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – minimum 3 days on our St. Luke’s campus and maximum 2 days from home.

Summary of the role

The post will be homed within the Faculty Operations team, facing the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Faculty Operations is part of the Division of EAS. EAS brings together all the key administration and educational support to create the conditions for student and academic success.

You will provide high-quality administrative support to academic leaders within the Department of Health and Community Sciences. You will be responsible for delivering professional services efficiently and effectively, ensuring that departmental operations run smoothly and align with strategic priorities.

This is a varied role at the frontline of business support. It requires excellent communication skills and the ability to manage a wide range of queries from internal and external stakeholders in a professional, customer-focused manner.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 39 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26wks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6wks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Further information

For more information or an informal chat about the role, please contact Rose Cohen, Department Manager, r.cohen3@exeter.ac.uk

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