Senior Administrator - Involvement and Engagement Department - 104087 - Grade 5

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Senior Administrator - Involvement and Engagement Department - 104087 - Grade 5

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University of Birmingham

Location:

United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

03.03.2025

Job Description:

Involvement and Engagement Department, College of Medical and Dental Sciences

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £28,397 to £30,210, with potential progression once in post to £33,938

Grade 5

Full Time, Fixed Term Contract for up to 2 years

Closing date: 14 July 2024

Our offer to you

People are at the heart of what we are and do.

The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognized as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.

We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional program which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to develop your career at the University.

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high-quality subsidized day nurseries.

The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus, we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with a pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum, and botanical gardens.

Job Context

This is a new, exciting, and varied post for a strong, dynamic and enthusiastic administrator. You will be working as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and based at the University of Birmingham. You will be an active member of the Core BRC team, specifically supporting the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) activities, as well as offering some support to the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) lead.

Your role will be to effectively deliver a range of administrative and support tasks to ensure the smooth running of the PPIE activities across the BRC. Working with the PPIE Manager, you will be involved in the planning and preparation of events to showcase our research to a range of communities, support with the recruitment of new volunteers, support with communications both internally and externally and liaise with our PPI members to understand and accommodate their needs to maximize their ability to be involved in research. In addition, you will undertake a wide range of other administrative tasks such as meeting planning and minute taking, coordinating and delivering finance tasks, maintaining accurate PPI records and organizing a range of documentation and toolkits to be shared across our PPIE Community.

You will be a highly organized and proactive individual who enjoys a fast-paced environment and has very strong attention to detail. You will thrive on multi-tasking, have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be skilled in a range of administrative IT packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel and MS Teams. You will enjoy working with a range of people and have skills in relationship building with both staff and diverse members of the local community. You will be patient, kind and compassionate and have a strong awareness of equality and diversity issues.

Job summary

As a senior administrator within a team/department you will provide support for a broad range of administrative duties, some of which may be complex. You may also be responsible for managing other staff or for supporting colleagues and sharing knowledge. You will be able to use your wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team. In order to flexibly use resources you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• You will be able to deal with complex systems and procedures and will be expected to offer advice on these, including deciding on the response to more complex queries.
• You will be expected to exercise your judgment on the answer to queries or on the direction of work within parameters set by your manager. On a day to day basis you will be expected to resolve more complex queries without necessarily referring to your manager.
• If you have a supervisory role, you will line manage your staff taking responsibility for coordinating and prioritizing the work of others. If not in a supervisory role you will still be expected to act as a role model and coach members of the team.
• Maintain high profile working relationships with key stakeholders on your own initiative, fielding enquiries and ensuring that appropriate information is disseminated to stakeholders as appropriate.
• You may be involved in organizing events including booking a venue, sending invitations, arranging refreshments, liaising with speakers, managing room (and hotel room) bookings, coordination of colleagues, advertising, collating feedback and reporting back.
• Will manage some smaller projects on your own initiative, but will also carry out desk research and source data from internal and external sources in order to contribute to wider projects.
• You will be expected to use a variety of complex University systems and processes to research, analyze and interpret complex data, producing bespoke reports as required. This may include identifying and resolving issues with the data.
• Support the management, development and implementation of operational processes and systems.
• Process more complex data (which may be financial, HR, student-related or other), monitoring accuracy, chasing up missing information, and resolving any issues as appropriate.
• Provide specialist advice and training to colleagues on area of activity.
• As required, provide a professional secretarial service to relevant committees and meetings.
• You may be required to be responsible for one or more of the following: monitoring budgets including processing payments, authorizing expenditure, raising concerns where finances are not in line with the budget, procuring goods and services through the University system, updating and writing contents for the department’s communications such as intranet pages, dealing with health and safety and facilities issues, HR-related tasks such as managing staff absence, induction, or dealing with leavers, dealing with arrangements for international visitors, monitoring internal procedures/compliance and ensuring these are followed and disseminated as appropriate.
• Supports equality and values diversity, moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Educated to A Level standard, or equivalent level 3 qualification such as a Level 3 NVQ, or level 3 national diploma or relevant work experience evidencing the skills and ability to undertake the role.
• Minimum of grade C/4 in Mathematics and English at GCSE or equivalent.
• Highly proficient IT skills, in particular the ability to handle complex electronic diaries and emails, the wider MS Office suite of programmes including Excel and PowerPoint, and some experience of using an enterprise resource planning package. The post holder should also be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
• Proven ability to plan ahead and anticipate requirements, proactively planning own (and sometimes others’ workloads) to manage time effectively, progress tasks concurrently and work to deadlines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to write for different audiences, and to required deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills. The postholder must inspire confidence and command authority with a range of colleagues and provide excellent customer service at all times.
• A high degree of professionalism, tact, and diplomacy, and the ability to exercise discretion regarding the handling and management of sensitive information/issues.
• A high degree of initiative, personal judgement, resourcefulness, flexibility, and a self-motivating approach.
• Ability to work effectively in a large, complex organisation, and to develop a good understanding of how higher education institutions work.
• Ability to understand policy and procedures and how to apply these.
• Understands the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.
• Ability to identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant policies and procedures.

Dimensions

This role will require the exercise of personal initiative within and beyond the department. May manage a team or budgets.

Planning and organising

The role is required to work independently on daily, weekly and monthly tasks but also on projects with medium-longer-term horizons without daily supervision. May manage others’ workloads.

Problem solving and decision making

They will work with direction from management but with a significant degree of autonomy. They will deal with more complex queries and be expected to resolve any problems in their area of responsibility. They may also manage the workload of others or coach others to achieve results.

Internal and external relationships

This role will be liaising with internal colleagues and stakeholders, likely to be University-wide and with external stakeholders.