Project and Events Assistant - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Grade UE04 £21,630 - £23,715 per annum

College of Science and Engineering/ School of Physics and Astronomy

The Opportunity:

The post will provide support to the School's Projects and Events Team with the administration, organisation and secretarial support for events, activities and projects for the School of Physics and Astronomy and to a lesser degree the College as a whole.

If you enjoy variety in your tasks, then this job is for you. You will interact with academic and professional services staff, suppliers and conference delegates from all over the world.

You should have vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 3, ONC or equivalent) plus previous work experience in a related role.

Due to the nature of events and the position, you should have excellent organisational skills and the ability to juggle and prioritise competing demands.

You will interact and communicate with people at every level of their careers so excellent communication and 'people' skills are very important.

The team is based in the James Clerk Maxwell Building, on the leafy green King's Buildings campus to the South of Edinburgh and close to the Hermitage of Braid and Blackford Hill for convenient lunch walks.

The campus provides a number of catering outlets and is close to the Cameron Toll shopping centre.

Your skills and attributes for success:

School education to Standard Grade or equivalent plus typically 2 years' relevant experience.
Good IT Skills using MS Office, in particular Outlook, Teams and Excel.
Excellent communication and 'people' skills, enthusiasm, motivation and a positive attitude.
Ability to use initiative when problem solving and when demonstrating excellent customer service

Applic ations for full-time or part-time hours of 28 per week.

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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.

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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.

Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
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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 Physics and Astronomy is in the College of Science and Engineering and comprises the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics (IPNP), the Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems (ICMCS) and the Institute for Astronomy (IfA).

We have around 100 academic staff, over 120 research staff and around 65 professional services staff.

The School of Physics and Astronomy was ranked 4th in the UK and 1st in Scotland in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 listing for the quality, scale and breadth of its research by Times Higher Education.

Consistently ranked within the top 20 physics departments worldwide, these results confirm the exceptional performance of our staff, our excellent facilities, and our world-leading research.

The School runs undergraduate programmes at BSc and MPhys level in Physics, Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics, Computational Physics, Astrophysics and (jointly with the School of Chemistry) Chemical Physics.

The undergraduate programme has flexible entry and exit points, creating courses of variable duration and level.

The School accepts around 230 new undergraduates into its programmes each year and has current student populations of over 800 undergraduates, 50 taught postgraduates and 220 research postgraduates.

We aim to ensure that our culture and systems support flexible and family-friendly working and recognise and value diversity across all our staff and students.

The School has an active programme offering support and professional development for all staff; providing mentoring, training, and networking opportunities.

The School of Physics and Astronomy holds Athena SWAN Silver and IoP Juno Champion awards, in r