Support Worker na Edinburgh University Group
Edinburgh University Group · Edinburgh, Reino Unido · Onsite
- Escritório em Edinburgh
Grade UE04: £26,093 - £28,778 per annum, pro-rata for part time
CAHSS / School of Social and Political Science
Part-time: 15 hours per week
Open ended, with a contract review date of 12 May 2027
The Opportunity:
Working in partnership with an academic member of staff, you will undertake administrative duties to support them in carrying out their role, including acting as a reader and scribe.
This is a part time role of 15 hours per week available from 1 October 2025, with a potential activity cease date of 12 May 2027, with potential for further extension.
The salary range for this post is £26,093 - £28,778 per annum, pro-rata for part time.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Experience of working in an administrative, personal assistant, or other responsive or supportive role.
- Strong IT skills in MS Office and the ability to create graphs, charts and tables within documents.
- Ability to work co-operatively and effectively.
- Well-developed organisational, time management and task prioritisation skills.
- Demonstrable attention to detail and ability to check own work for accuracy.
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Application Information
As part of your application, please submit a CV and covering letter that addresses your suitability for the role.
Informal questions about this post can be directed to the Hiring Manger, Claire Edminson, Network Coordinator, via email at [email protected]
Current employees interested in applying for this role should apply through the People & Money Current Jobs app.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
- A competitive salary
- 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, competitive pension schemes, staff discounts, and family-friendly initiatives. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
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.
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 18 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 will typically be held 2-3 weeks after the closing date.
About Company
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 seven 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.265fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 2,600 undergraduate and postgraduate taught students on its programmes of study, and c. 250 doctoral researchers.
The School's primary aim is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding of social science. We provide an outstanding educational environment and support the highest quality research, tackling some of the world’s greatest challenges. We deliver excellence in discipline-based and interdisciplinary programmes. In addition, as a School, we play a leading role in delivering learning opportunities for students across the University to engage with current global challenges and uncertainties and in equipping students with the social science tools and lenses they need to become active, responsible and critical global citizens and leaders.
In REF 2021, the School returned 100% 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 five in the UK for their breadth and quality of research. Overall 39% of our research activity was classified as world leading with a further 47% assessed as internationally excellent. For two of our 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.
For further information about our school please visit http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/
