Joint Educational Institute (JEI) Administrator – Operations, Finance and Logistics

About the Role
We are seeking to appoint a Joint Education Institute (JEI) Administrator to support the delivery of Transnational Education programmes delivered collaboratively by Queen Mary and Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). This role will manage all travel and visa arrangements for the Flying Faculty, maintain appropriate financial records, coordinate student exchange programmes, and provide logistical support to the continued development and growth of the partnership. The role will be based at QM’s Mile End campus with occasional travel to NPU's campus in Xi'an.

About You
You should be an experienced and enthusiastic Higher Education administrator with experience providing operational support to a Faculty/School, ideally in the areas of finance, travel or events. You must have experience with precisive administrative tasks including analysing and manipulating data on databases and/or Microsoft Excel.

Experience in a partnership and/or TNE setting would be advantageous but is not essential, and we welcome applications without this experience.

About TNE in the Faculty of Science and Engineering
The Faculty has led Sino-British collaboration through successful dual award degree programmes with partners including Nanchang University (NCU), Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT) and Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU). We pioneered the Flying Faculty model in China in 2004 with BUPT, becoming the first international university to receive approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education.

For 10 years, the JEI with NPU has successfully delivered dual degrees, graduating over 1500 students. The NPU partnership is a key operation within the TNE portfolio in the Faculty, with approximately 960 students actively enrolled each year. The operation will be launching new programmes in 26/27, increased the enrolment rate to over 1600 by 29/30.

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.

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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