Faculty Office Business and Administration Manager

About the Role

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is seeking an experienced and highly organised professional to join the Faculty Office as Faculty Office Business and Administration Manager.

This is a varied and rewarding role at the heart of Faculty operations. Working closely with the Faculty Director of Operations, Deputy Vice-Principal and Faculty Leadership Team, you will provide high-quality executive and administrative support while overseeing the day-to-day management of Faculty Office administration. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the smooth delivery of Faculty governance, committee activity, strategic events and core operational processes.

About You

You will have significant experience in a complex administrative, operational or executive support role, ideally within a Higher Education environment. You will be confident working with senior stakeholders, handling sensitive information with discretion and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

The successful candidate will be an excellent organiser with strong communication and relationship-building skills. You will have experience of servicing high-level committees, coordinating projects and events, and managing administrative processes to a consistently high standard. Experience of line management, recruitment administration and working with corporate systems such as HR and finance platforms would be advantageous.

About the Faculty

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences combines research excellence with a strong commitment to growth, innovation and diversity in its educational activities. Public engagement, partnerships, cross-disciplinary collaboration and the generation of research with broad public benefit are central to the Faculty's success.

Home to over 12,000 students and around 500 academic staff, the Faculty has a global reputation for excellence across the humanities and social sciences and provides an ambitious and collaborative environment for research, teaching and engagement.

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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