RaKE Administrator (Impact and Community Engagement)

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Research and Knowledge Exchange
Location:  Brighton - Moulsecoomb
Salary:  £25,742 to £28,759 per annum
Contract Length: 12 months
Closing Date:  Wednesday 14 February 2024
Interview Date:  Monday 26 February 2024
Reference:  RK5029-24-042

This is a great opportunity to support research that makes a difference to society.  Do you have the experience and skills to deliver a quality administration service across a portfolio of work?  

We are now recruiting to the role of Research and Knowledge Exchange Administrator to support the Research Impact Manager with activities designed to enhance the delivery of research impact at the University.  This post offers scope to enhance your skills and knowledge of research administration. 

Activities will include: co-ordination of both school-focused and university wide activities, servicing meetings, budget monitoring and processing financial transactions, support for events and communications, including design and development of internal Sharepoint pages. 

In this role you will work with a series of projects and interact with a diverse range of academic and professional services roles. 

In order to be successful, you should have:

• experience of providing a quality administration service 
• previous experience of working with office processes 
• the ability to work as part of a team
• experience of planning and prioritising a range of work activities, meeting sometimes conflicting work deadlines
• good communication and analytical skills, and ability to communicate complex procedures and information clearly

This post is offered on a fixed term contract up to 12 months (to cover maternity leave) and is full-time (37.0 hours per week), however we welcome applications from candidates seeking to job share.

The University has an agile working framework, which enables some home working, with approval from the line manager.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.