Teaching Administrator bei Edinburgh University Group
Edinburgh University Group · Edinburgh, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Professional
- Optionales Büro in Edinburgh
Grade UE04 - £26,093- 28,778 per annum
College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences / The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences – Teaching Office
Full time: 35 hours per week
Open ended/Permanent
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking to recruit a full time, open-ended Teaching Administrator.
The Opportunity:
The successful post holder will provide professional administrative support to School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences degree programmes within a creative and changing academic environment: supporting teaching (in-person and digital) and assessment processes for a number of courses; engaging with undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate taught (PGT) students, course organisers and the academic community.
They will form part of a wider Teaching Organisation team, and will also work collaboratively with others in the Student Services function, contributing to the overall support provided to students across their time with the School.
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences provides an exciting work environment through its three subject areas that have a diverse and dynamic research and teaching portfolio.
We are recruiting to an ideal start of around early-mid October 2025.
The role shall be based within Dugald Stewart Building (Central Campus) with opportunities for discussion on informal hybrid workplace arrangements available at the time of offer.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Vocational qualifications (N/SVQ 2/3, ONC or equivalent) plus relevant work experience; or school education to Standard Grade or equivalent plus relevant work experience.
- 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.
- A pro-active approach to seeking out information to deal with enquiries from staff and students
- Competent and proven digital and IT skills; Microsoft Office applications – Word, PowerPoint, Excel – including Office 365 and SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, email, web.
- Experience of University student administration and student systems, including course administration would be highly desirable.
A full job description can be found here.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary of £26,093 – 28,778 per annum (Annual increments through the scale will occur with each years continuous service).
- 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, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Application information:
We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of two referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).
Please note that a cover letter is mandatory and should be around 500 words in length.
As a School we acknowledge that people’s career paths are rarely linear and welcome applicants to expand on their professional and personal journeys where appropriate. More information on how to submit your application can be found here.
For any informal enquiries please contact [email protected] in the first instance to redirect accordingly.
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.
We particularly welcome applications from eligible candidates from under-represented groups, including racially minoritised individuals and all gender identities.
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 (opens new browser tab).
The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will 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 22 September 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 are expected to be held in late September/early October; we endeavor to give successful candidates 2 weeks’ notice ahead of interviews.
About Company
The School comprises Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences (Linguistics and English Language). We offer a rich and diverse teaching and research environment for all our staff and students, with close links between our three main subject areas, alongside other world-class research areas within the University and beyond.
The School is recognised as world-leading, as shown in its excellent output across all areas in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Psychology is rated 3rd, Philosophy is rated 4th and Linguistics and English Language is rated 3rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of the research. Read about the impact our research is making on the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences website (Opens in new browser tab).
