Teaching Administrator

Edinburgh University Group

Grade UE04: £25,733 to £28,381 per annum

29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS, GB(Hybrid working)

Permanent, Full time

REF: 12305

The Opportunity:

To provide professional administrative support to Business School courses within a creative and changing academic environment: supporting teaching and assessment processes for a number of courses; engaging with undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate taught (PGT) students, course organisers and the academic community. To contribute to and deliver an exceptional and distinctive experience for our students.

The salary for this post is £25,733 to £28,381 per annum. 

Your skills and attributes for success: 

·        Accurate, thorough, and methodical approach, for example, data entry, checking of marks on the Assessment and Progression Tool (APT). 

·        Competent and proven digital and IT skills; Microsoft Office applications – Word, PowerPoint, Excel – including Office 365 and SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, email, web.  

·        Ability to plan, prioritise and organise a demanding workload as part of a collaborative team. 

·        Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a friendly, helpful, approachable and confident manner towards students and staff. 

·        Able to make own decisions and exercise judgement. 

·        Resourcefulness. 

A copy of the full Job Description can be found on our careers site.

Application Information

·        Please ensure you include the following documents in your application: 

·        CV 

·        Cover letter 

As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

·        A competitive salary 

·        An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.  

·        To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community 

·        Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits   

Championing equality, diversity and inclusion 

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages on our careers site.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK. 

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 18th April 2025.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

Interviews will be held 29th April 2025. 

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About the Team

The aim of University of Edinburgh Business School is to be a world-class Business School within a world-class University. We are distinctive, fostering a unique coaching culture, where all students have access to coaching and much of this is facilitated by peer support leaders from the student cohorts. The Business School is focused on sustainability, aiming to anchor the UN Sustainable Development goals into our strategic planning and developing our activities in line with the University’s target to be carbon-neutral by 2040. Furthermore we are actively participating in data-driven innovation which envisages Edinburgh becoming the Data Capital of Europe. 

Based in the heart of Edinburgh, staff at the Business School are immersed in the vibrant life of the city. The Business School has excellent transport links including buses and a location that is only a 20 minute walk from Edinburgh Waverley station. In the summer we find ourselves with easy access to the Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For a breath of fresh air all year round, green spaces such as George Square and the Meadows are right outside our front door. 

The culture of the Business School is people orientated and diverse; we have a strong Equality and Diversity committee made up of both academic and professional services staff and we are committed to the principles of Athena SWAN. We also support staff in a hybrid working environment and offer the possibility for most roles to work in a combination of on-campus and at-home working where suits both them and the organisation.  

Academically, we are an interdisciplinary School with particular strengths in management science, leadership organisations and society, interdisciplinary accounting, corporate finance, climate change and sustainability, and entrepreneurship. The School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). This triple accreditation highlights the quality of teaching and excellence of research at the School. 

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Closing Date: 18th April 2025, 11:59 PM

Interviews will be held 29th April 2025.