Grade UE05: £ 24,285.00 - £27,929.00 per annum pro rata
CAHSS / Edinburgh College of Art / Edinburgh College of Art Office
Part-time: 17.5 hours per week (0.5 FTE)
Fixed-term: for 12 months
Edinburgh College of Art is recruiting a Research Administrative Support Assistant on a fixed term basis.
The Opportunity
To provide administrative support for the Finance, HR and payroll elements involved in research activities undertaken by the Edinburgh College of Art, including: financial processing and administration for the College’s numerous external and internally-funded research grants; logging and maintaining financial transaction records; preparing paperwork to create and amend contracts for research project staff and other administrative activities to support the work of ECA RKEI colleagues.
Skills and Attributes for Success
- Good standard of education (Vocational qualifications, N/SVQ 3, ONC or equivalent) plus proven relevant experience, or standard grades or equivalent plus proven relevant work experience.
- Experience of working with financial procedures and systems in a large, complex organisation is required.
- Demonstrably high standards of customer care and the ability to co-operate and contribute as part of a team.
- Good written and oral communication skills are as important as good numeracy skills and an eye for detail.
- Ability to use initiative and a pro-active approach to seeking out information.
- The post-holder should be IT literate, and adept at using MS Excel.
- A strongly developed sense of service delivery and customer focussed approach.
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
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On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.