Deputy Teaching Services Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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UE05, £24,285 - £ 27,929

School of Social and Political Science

Open-ended contract
**Full-time, 35 hours per week

As part of the School's Teaching Office, to deliver efficient and consistent administrative support to the School, including the SPS Learning and Teaching Directorate and teaching organisation, ensuring delivery of a high standard of governance, reporting, and transparency of decision making.

You will also be responsible for reporting key information and for providing administrative capacity to deliver change and improvement projects as part of a drive to increase efficiency and improvements in student and staff experience within the School.

Your skills and attributes for success:

Highly developed organisational skills to plan and to prioritise including the ability to work calmly under pressure, while ensuing accuracy and attention to detail.
Commitment to, and the ability to provide, excellence in the delivery of services
Resilience, resourcefulness and initiative, in combination with the ability to work well as part of a team
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
High level of IT skills with experience of using databases and good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel and SharePoint

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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 provide 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.

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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.

Notes for Applicants

Applicants should submit three documents:
a CV, a brief covering letter and a personal statement.

The personal statement should detail how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined in the 'Knowledge, Skills and Experience' section of the job description.

It is suggested that this is structured a series of headings listing each criteria accompanied by a short paragraph for each, providing examples of where your skills and experience meet each of these competencies.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held during early December.

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 (opens new browser tab). 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 School of Social and Political Science (SPS) is one of the largest and most successful schools of social science in the UK, with global reach and local and global impact.

Our goals are to promote excellence in education, research and innovation.

The School comprises six Subject Areas plus a number of research and teaching centres and institutes, and a number of cross-Subject consortia and other units.

The academic staff complement currently numbers c.200fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 1,100 undergraduate students on its programmes of study, over 500 taught postgraduates, and over 300 doctoral researchers.

In REF 2014, the School returned 96% of its eligible staff from Professors to early career researchers; a strategy that combined excellence with inclusion.

All four Units of Assessment to which SPS contributed were rated amongst the top eight in the UK, and number one in Scotland, for their breadth and quality of research.

Overall 36% of our research activity was classified as world leading with a further 41% assessed as internationally excellent.

For two of those four Units of Assessment - Politics and International Relations, and Social Policy and Social Work - the whole of the research environment achieved the highest possible rating and was judged to be world leading.