We're looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Academic Office Team part time on Thursdays and Fridays, with an additional half day of your choice, contributing effectively to the operation of administrative functions in support of academic programmes, and in liaison with a wide range of internal and external agencies. You'll actively collaborate with academic and professional colleagues to ensure that an excellent quality of provision of administrative services is achieved and maintained at all times.
Within a team of 3 Academic Administration Assistants, this role involves shared monitoring of several key frontline inboxes for the Academic Support Services Team (total of 20 members), resolving queries directly where possible, and forwarding messaged on others where necessary. In addition to general administration queries, this role involves the sorting and logging of student Special Circumstances requests, with use of excel and Microsoft Sharepoint. Applicants will also need to be willing to be trained on the university finance system to log purchase orders that come into the Purchasing inbox.
Other regular duties include post, stationery monitoring, answering the phone and transcript printing. This does not exclude any other tasks that may arise as appropriate to this this role level and within the Academic Support Service Team needs.
All post holders are required to take ownership of their own performance and the relationships they build with students, partners, the public and colleagues, demonstrating a positive attitude and commitment to their work.
Successful applicants will be required to prove their right to work in the UK prior to the commencement of their employment.
Whilst the University of Greater Manchester is a licensed sponsor, under UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) not all roles are eligible for visa sponsorship.
This position may not meet the criteria for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS).
Eligibility will be assessed in line with the Home Office requirements at the time of making the offer.
For further information, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job