Administration Assistant

Job description
Vacancy ID: 10637

Location: Leicester

Department: Leicester Law School

Vacancy terms: Full-time or job share, permanent

Salary details: Grade V3 - £23,2+3 to £23,+50 per annum, pro-rata if part-time

Hours per week: 35

Advert closes midnight on: 13 Oct 2024

About the role

In this role, you will provide a reception service and administrative support for the Leicester Law School, responding to a wide variety of queries from students, staff, prospective student applicants and visitors and will be expected to provide advice and assistance when required. We are looking for a motivated individual who is able to manage their own time, keen to learn and work to deadlines ensuring that they provide the best service possible.

You will have excellent attention to detail and have the ability to deal with people on a variety of levels. This is full time role and is based on-campus/in the office. Indicative duties would include data entry such as attendance monitoring and marks entry, information gathering for the compilation of newsletters such as the careers bulletin, helping to prepare for, and attend, open days and other student visit days, helping with events such as registering candidates, booking rooms and equipment, ordering refreshments. Providing assistance to the assessment, student support or recruitment teams. Supporting university-led events such as student registration, graduation, student admissions (clearing call centre work).

Weekend work is required for some activities, with time off in lieu given.

About you

You will be seeking to develop a career in an academic student facing environment, delivering support to a wide range of student needs and activities. You will have excellent communication and relationship building skills and be able to adapt your communication style to suit a wide variety of situations.

You will have high levels of accuracy and attention to detail, good IT skills and knowledge including use of Microsoft Office package, alongside excellent organisational and planning skills. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate the ability to use their initiative and judgement to resolve problems independently.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Holly Morton, Operations Manager on holly.morton@le.ac.uk.

We anticipate that interviews will take place during week commencing 21 October 2024

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world.

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community through our values of Inspiring, Impactful and Inclusive.

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.