Operations Administrator - Faculty Flexible Deployment

The Role and the Department

The Faculty of Social Sciences is one of Durham University’s four Faculties and is home to a diverse community of staff and students across eight academic departments and Schools: Anthropology, Archaeology, Education, Geography, Government and International Affairs, Law, Sociology and Sport and Exercise Sciences. The faculty is also responsible for interdisciplinary programmes in Combined Social Sciences and Research Methods and is working towards developing a broader range of interdisciplinary programmes at postgraduate taught level. Our inclusive, creative, and innovative research environment provides our students with an inspiring learning experience and enables us to produce world leading research within and a cross Departments, Research Centres and Institutes. The diverse nature of the activities that take place across the faculty and the role of the Faculty Office in supporting the development and delivery of strategic objectives provides our staff with a stimulating and engaging work environment.

The Faculty of Social Sciences is looking to appoint an Operations Administrator that will be flexibly deployed across the 8 departments of the faculty to align with fluctuations in resource. In the medium term, this post will be deployed into the School of Education.

The Operations Administrator will provide proactive support in working with Departments across the faculty, in particular the Heads of Department, Department Managers and members of the Senior Management Team. Working within a team under the line management of the Department Managers, the role holder will be expected to undertake administrative tasks and support processes that underpin the delivery of the Departments Strategy, particularly with respect to teaching, research, marketing, social media and related operations, demonstrating a commitment to customer service excellence.

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