Academic Partnerships Officer, CSEE

We are looking to appoint an Academic Partnerships Officer to be the operational lead for the day-to-day running of academic partnership course delivery within the School of CSEE.

The Role

You will provide a friendly, specialist and professional interface between the School, the university’s partnerships team, and the School’s external academic partners and students.  You will provide administrative leadership for every aspect of the delivery of our partnership courses (in liaison with relevant academic staff) including responsibility for planning and scheduling, quality assurance procedures, day to day operational liaison with partners, developing relevant policies and procedures, responding to operational issues that arise, problem solving, and participating in discussion and planning for new partnership project opportunities.  

About you

You will have experience of working within a multi-faced administrative role in a Higher Education setting, including experience of liaising with a broad range of stakeholders. You must be able to work independently, have the ability to plan and manage a complex workload with multiple deadlines, and demonstrate initiative and judgement when making decisions. 

For full details please see the person specification.

The School

CSEE is a large and vibrant department in the Faculty of Science and Health. Ranked 6th  in the UK for research impact in computer science, and with 100% of our research impact rated world leading or internationally excellent, this is an exciting time to join our busy and vibrant school.  Due to a rapid expansion in student numbers we are looking for a number of new staff in different roles to support our growing and diverse student body.

Please see the attached job pack, which contains a full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role plus more information relating to the post. We recommend you read this information carefully before making an application.  Applications should be made on-line, but if you would like advice or help in making an application, or need information in a different format, please contact resourcing@essex.ac.uk

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