School Operations Assistant

The School Operations Assistant role provides proactive operational support for key activities across the School as a member of the SEED School Operations team. This includes delivering an excellent service provision for all staff and PGR students within the School’s wider community and the School’s departments.

This is a busy role and will involve flexibility and the ability to prioritise tasks to effectively assist with the delivery of activity and contribute to development and improvements within the School. The post holder’s role will be to ensure effective and professional liaison and communication with academic, administrative and external customers, to facilitate the smooth running of day-to-day activities, through the delivery of established processes. The post holder will act as a first point of contact for the School to provide a helpful and welcoming service to students, staff and visitors.

The business area of School Operations incorporates a wide range of activity which the post-holder will have exposure to through their responsibilities. This includes but is not limited to; procurement, academic processes, staff recruitment and visitor processes, managing the School’s buildings and estate, compliance, health and safety, social responsibility, equality, diversity and inclusion, staff events and staff communications.

Interviews are expected to be held on Thursday the 16th of October.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Please note this role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route of the Points Based System. Candidates will need to be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK in order to be eligible to take up the post.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Francesca Clark

Email: francesca.clark@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

Jobtrain: 0161 850 2004 https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.