Executive Assistant

Location: Singleton Campus, Swansea

Interview date: 9th Apr 2024

Informal equiries: Heidi Waddington [email protected]

About the university

Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research, matched by an enviable quality of life.

Our stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers, matched by an excellent work-life balance.

About the role

Swansea University is characterised by the distinct values, culture and behaviours that lie at our core and underpin the key pillars of our university as outlined in the University’s vision and purpose. 

To deliver its sustainable top 30 ambition Swansea University needs a professional services workforce with the differentiated skills necessary to ensure that it can deliver excellence through efficient and effective systems and processes that harness innovations in technology.

The creation of three faculties at Swansea University in 2020 was a key platform to drive further success for the university over the next decade. This role represents an exciting opportunity for you to use your skills and experience to make a real difference to the outcomes and success of the faculties in one of our core teams.

Consistent structures and roles have been created across all three faculties, to aid collaborative working and innovation to enable excellence in outcomes, delivery and support.

The Executive Support Assistant will work with the Executive Officer and other members of the team to ensure smooth running of all operations and to specifically support the Faculty Research Institutes.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.