Management Assistant to The Director of Estates - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
University of Edinburgh
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Grade UE05 £24,285- £27,929 per annum

Corporate Services Group, Estates Department, Estates Business Services

Full-time; 35 hours per week

Fixed term contract (maternity cover - February 2023 to April 2024)


The Estates Department of the University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a Management Assistant to the Director of Estates Operations who will provide direct support to the Director.


The Opportunity:

The Estates Business Services Team is a fully integrated range of professional support services delivered across the Department.

The team are responsible for specific functions including governance policy; records, data and information management; direct business support; procurement; and audit and risk.


The purpose of the Management Assistant is to deliver a range of business support services providing professional, responsive and efficient PA support to the Director of Estates Operations and, where required to the wider Senior Management within the Estates Department and to ensure effective support to their workload and respective offices.


Your skills and attributes for success:

  • Executive level PA/business support skills.
  • Strong IT skills including comprehensive knowledge of a variety of software packages.
  • Sound educational background with excellent written and numeracy skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to build a strong network of contacts and maintain positive working relationships, together with excellent organisational and time management skills including the ability to multitask
  • Ability to use initiative and be selfmotivating
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme , staff discounts,
family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more.

Click to access our
staff benefits page for further information and use our
reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

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.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.

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.

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.

The University of Edinburgh was founded in 1583 and currently occupies more than 550 academic, administrative and residential buildings throughout the city of Edinburgh across 5 campuses; Central Area, Kings Buildings, Easter Bush, Bio

  • Quarter and the Western General Hospital. There are also sporting facilities at Peffermill.
The estate is an exciting mix of eras and architecture.

Whilst many of the buildings enjoy listed status and are integral to the unique qualities and characteristics of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Edinburgh, many more have been added over the years as the University has grown.

The portfolio ranges from nationally important, iconic, historical buildings through to state of the art teaching, research and sporting facilities.

The University of Edinburgh has a significant programme of estates investment underway, in both capital development and also in the infrastructure and resilience of the estate.

This investment will help to ensure that the university remains at the forefront of world leading teaching, learning and research.


The Estates Department is part of the Corporate Services Group and provides a range of key activities that help the University to achieve its corporate objectives.

It is an integrated centre of excellence responsible for implementing decisions related to the buildings, fabric and infrastructure of the University.

It provides specialist advice to the University on strategic estates issues as well as its statutory obligations.
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