Research Programme Administrator Greenwich Business School Professional Services Location: Greenwich Campus
Salary: £26,444 to £29,605 plus £5269 London weighting per annum Contract Type: Permanent Release Date: Tuesday 14 November 2023 Closing Date: Monday 27 November 2023 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: 4277
Greenwich Business School at the University of Greenwich is seeking to recruit a full time Faculty Research Programme Administrator on a permanent basis.
The successful candidate will provide a high standard of administrative support to key programme administration related activities ensuring an efficient and effective service to research students, from their initial contact and interest in studying with Greenwich Business School through to graduation.
This is a key customer care role requiring a caring and empathetic attitude to student queries and concerns.
This student facing role combines the need for excellent administrative skills, an organised approach, attention to detail, and the ability to develop good relationships with university students and staff.
Greenwich Business School is one of four faculties at the University of Greenwich and provides a wide range or postgraduate and undergraduate programmes.
Greenwich Business School is located on the Greenwich Maritime Campus, a UNESCO world heritage site. We seek to recruit a colleague willing to work with a diverse group of students and academic staff.
The post-holder must be able to work as part of a team to ensure that the wider administrative tasks within the Research Team are achieved.
We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values.
For an informal chat regarding the role, please contact the Faculty Research Support Manager, Susanne Namer Waldenstrom [email protected]
Should you have any queries please contact People Operations on [email protected]
We are committed to building a strong, diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We particularly encourage applications from protected characteristic(s), who are currently under-represented within the University of Greenwich at these levels/within these areas.
We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion.
We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form.
We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees' experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
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Job details
Title
Research Programme Administrator
Employer
University of Greenwich
Location
United Kingdom
Published
November 15, 2023
Application deadline
November 27, 2023
Job type
Administration/Managerment
Field
Business and Economics
About the employer
The University of Greenwich was established in 1890 at Woolwich Polytechnic and received its first CGLI certificate in 1892. In 1992, the institution gained the status of a university and was renamed as the University of Greenwich. Over the years, the university has made its place among the top academic institutions in the world. It has gained the accreditations of many prestigious organizations like CIPD, APS, and AMBA.
Notably, the University of Greenwich has three campuses. Two of these campuses, Avery Hill Campus and Greenwich Campus, are located in London while the third campus, Medway Campus, is located in Kent, England. The Greenwich campus is the university's home campus and has the Stock well Street Building that houses TV and film studios, a library, and high-tech editing suites. Also, the social and teaching spaces of the campus are located in the £25-million Dreadnought Building. The Avery Hill campus has excellent sports and teaching facilities with four clinical skills labs, two weather-proof sports pitches, a sports hall, a huge lecture theatre, and a gym. The Medway campus has many study facilities like an 8,000-m2 lab, the Drill Hall Library, residential facilities, and a student hub.
The university offers many undergraduate- and postgraduate-level programmes in various fields like accounting, finance, architecture, science, business, management, engineering, arts, English, social science, history, law, marketing, nursing, pharmacy, and psychology. And, the university offers these courses through its Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities, Faculty of Business School, Faculty of Education and Health, and Faculty of Engineering and Science. The university has alliances with many regional and international academic institutions to provide students with facilities like student exchange and study abroad programmes. Further, the university's industrial placement scheme is available to help students get suitable jobs.
The University of Greenwich has over 225,000 alumni across the globe. Amongst the names of notable alumni include Charles K. Kao, a well-known physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for pioneering the use of fiber optics in telecommunications. Malorie Blackman is the author of some famous novels like Hacker, A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E, Pig-Heart Boy, Tell Me No Lies and Dead Gorgeous. Jamie Adenuga (Jme) is a popular record producer and co-founder of Boy Better Know. Abiy Ahmed is the third Prime Minister of Ethiopia. Dave Rowntree is the drummer in the rock band, Blur. He is also an English animator, solicitor, and politician.