Postgraduate Programs Officer

Duration: FTC until 12th April 2025

The Department of Psychology has a fantastic opportunity for a Postgraduate Programmes Officer (fixed term) to join our excellent team and help us create a vibrant student experience.

This exciting position will support both postgraduate research students and students on our joint postgraduate programmes, working with Economics, Computer Science and WBS to support our students to through their journey with us.

The post holder will be responsible for overseeing academic progression requirements, arranging postgraduate events, managing the submission of student work, reviewing attendance monitoring, maintaining student records, and supporting student engagement events including occasional Open Days. They will be the first point of contact for both postgraduate taught and postgraduate research students and will be responsible for providing advice, information and support to them.

For informal enquiries, please contact Emily Biggs ([email protected]). 

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

About you:

The successful candidate will have a good standard of general education (A Level or equivalent) and will have experience of working as part of a team in a busy customer-focused administrative environment. Excellent communication and organisation skills coupled with the ability to pay attention to detail are essential, as is the ability to demonstrate a good understanding of administrative processes. Experience of working in a student-facing role within Higher Education would be advantageous.

We want to ensure that our students have the best chance of success, and we are keen to recruit the very best talent. If you are passionate about students’ learning and development, committed, and would love to work in an exciting and diverse university environment – come and join us!

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual wishing to extend and further develop their skills in an academic environment, whilst learning about a growing strategically important department at the University of Warwick.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

How to apply

For informal enquiries, please contact Emily Biggs via email: [email protected] .

To apply please complete your essential personal details and attach a CV and cover letter by the closing date 17th March 2024 at 11:55pm

Please ensure your CV includes your most recent employment experience along with any additional relevant experience and education history.  

What to include in your cover letter

The person specification identifies the essential and desirable skills, knowledge, and experience that you will need to have to undertake the role. The shortlisting panel will study your application and look for evidence that you meet each criterion. In your supporting statement you must make a case for selection by demonstrating how your experience matches the criteria

To streamline our hiring process, we kindly request that all candidates submit their applications through our official website. This ensures that all applications are received in a uniform format and can be processed efficiently by our HR team. 

Full details of the duties and selection criteria for this role can be found in the vacancy advert on the University of Warwick's jobs pages. You will be routed to this when you click on the Apply button.