Admissions Officer

Department: Marketing & Communications
Salary: £35,775 – £42,021 per annum (Grade 4)
Reference: QMUL29983
Location: Whitechapel
Date posted: 26 September 2022
Closing date: 10 October 2022

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Overview

About the Role

We are seeking a self-motivated, skilled individual to join our busy and friendly admissions team as an Admissions Officer.

About You

The ideal candidate for this permanent position will have recent experience of working in an administrative role supporting the recruitment or admission of students, preferably in a central admissions team in higher education. Experience of offer-making under delegated authority from academic departments will be an advantage.

You will be an individual who is equally capable of working independently and as a member of a team. You will be well-organised, able to prioritise and capable of working under pressure while maintaining high levels of accuracy. You will be IT literate, with experience of using complex databases in an academic context, and have excellent interpersonal skills as well as excellent oral and written communication skills. You will be capable of carrying out tasks and making decisions consistently within a clear policy and regulatory framework, referring to managers only in complex cases.

About the Department

Admissions Officers are members of our central Admissions team, which handles undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research programme applications to all the university’s Schools and Institutes. Our Admissions Officers are assigned either to the Postgraduate or Undergraduate team but are expected to work flexibly across team boundaries to ensure that applicants receive a consistently good service during peak times. This role will be primarily based within the Undergraduate Admissions Team.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including a nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at Department W, located between our Mile End and Whitechapel Campus’. It is a full time (35 hours per week), permanent position, with an immediate start date.

The starting salary will be Grade 4, from £35,775 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance. Appointments will normally be made at the bottom of the scale.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. Where required this may include entry clearance or continued leave to remain under the Points Based Immigration Scheme.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as men as this group is underrepresented at this level at Queen Mary.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Michelle Butcher, Deputy Head of Admissions (Undergraduate) at[email protected]

To further details and to apply for the role, please click the ‘further details and to apply’ button below.

The closing date for applications is 10th October 2022.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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