Curriculum Management Administrator - Academic Services - 8478 - Band 400
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Location
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £20,488.00 - £26,603.00
- Closing date
- May 14, 2021
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- Sector
- Science, Agriculture, Aquaculture and Food Science, Fisheries
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
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Position Details
Academic Services
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £20,488 to £21,868, with potential progression once in post to £26,603
Band 400
Full Time
Fixed term contract until 30th September 2022
Closing date - 14th May 2021
Job Summary
To provide proactive administrative support in the relevant department, working as part of a team or on own initiative. You will have the ability to manage your work without needing to refer to others for most of your time. In order to flexibly use resource you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.
Administrators may work in any area of the University; with large groupings in HR, Finance, and School/College Hubs.
You will be able to develop a wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and may also have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team.
This role will be work in Registry and Academic Affairs and provide support to the Curriculum Management Team by managing the administrative workload in a professional and proactive manner. The main responsibility of the Curriculum Management Team is to provide maintenance and assurance of the University's curriculum data, providing reporting, and maintaining databases to ensure curriculum information is compliant with CMA, Student Loan Company and HESA requirements.
Registry is a division of Academic Services managing the progression of students from registration through to graduation. The division supports many key underlying services and processes, ensuring through regulation and quality assurance that academic standards are met.
Main Duties
Person Specification
Informal enquires to Daniel Phillips, email: d.p.phillips@bham.ac.uk
We value diversity at The University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community '
Valuing excellence; sustaining investment
Academic Services
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £20,488 to £21,868, with potential progression once in post to £26,603
Band 400
Full Time
Fixed term contract until 30th September 2022
Closing date - 14th May 2021
Job Summary
To provide proactive administrative support in the relevant department, working as part of a team or on own initiative. You will have the ability to manage your work without needing to refer to others for most of your time. In order to flexibly use resource you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.
Administrators may work in any area of the University; with large groupings in HR, Finance, and School/College Hubs.
You will be able to develop a wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and may also have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team.
This role will be work in Registry and Academic Affairs and provide support to the Curriculum Management Team by managing the administrative workload in a professional and proactive manner. The main responsibility of the Curriculum Management Team is to provide maintenance and assurance of the University's curriculum data, providing reporting, and maintaining databases to ensure curriculum information is compliant with CMA, Student Loan Company and HESA requirements.
Registry is a division of Academic Services managing the progression of students from registration through to graduation. The division supports many key underlying services and processes, ensuring through regulation and quality assurance that academic standards are met.
Main Duties
- You will act as a point of contact to provide accurate and timely information and advice to internal and external customers and stakeholders on University processes and procedures, answering queries promptly, providing guidance and resolving queries from initial contact to resolution. This will include recognising when queries need to be referred elsewhere.
- Regularly communicate relevant information to students, staff and external contacts.
- Provide administrative support for diary or event planning.
- Process data (which may be financial, HR, student-related or other), monitoring accuracy, chasing up missing information, and escalating any issues as appropriate.
- Use a variety of complex University systems and processes to research, manipulate, analyse and interpret sets of data, and produce routine reports.
- Maintain working relationship with key stakeholders, fielding queries, receiving and dealing with any disputes or complaints and resolving promptly.
- Offer advice and support to others on area of activity.
- Review processes and tasks and proactively offer suggestions for improvement and sharing best practice as appropriate.
- As required, provide a professional secretarial service to relevant committees and meetings.
- Supports equality and values diversity, moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.
Person Specification
- GCSEs to a minimum of grade C in English and Mathematics grade C minimum (or equivalent level 2 qualification).
- Good IT skills with working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office software.
- Ability to take responsibility for specific tasks, carrying out duties without needing to refer to others, with scope for some choice and using your own judgment.
- Ability to work on your own initiative.
- Ability to proactively contribute to improving processes and for proposing new ways of working.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others.
- Well organised with the ability to prioritise work proactively, independently and as part of a team.
- A good understanding of how to deliver excellent customer service.
- Experience of using and maintaining complex work systems e.g. student databases/finance record systems/HR systems or equivalent, and an aptitude for learning new IT packages and systems.
- A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
- The ability to cope with change in a fast moving, dynamic environment where change is often required immediately.
- An understanding of the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.
- The ability to identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant policies and procedures and how to respond to issues in line with relevant policies and procedures.
Informal enquires to Daniel Phillips, email: d.p.phillips@bham.ac.uk
We value diversity at The University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community '
Valuing excellence; sustaining investment
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