Imperial College London Hiring for Postgraduate Education Administrator (Summer Schools) Job at South Kensington, England Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Postgraduate Education Team in the Faculty of Medicine (FoM). The team is based in the Faculty Education Office (Medicine) and supports activity related to postgraduate programmes offered across FoM departments, comprising of PhDs, Masters, Diplomas, Certificates, short courses, CPD programmes, and Summer Schools.

The Faculty of Medicine is at the forefront of taking biomedical discoveries and translating them into the clinic – to the benefit of local patients and worldwide populations. Our students benefit from our close connections with healthcare partners and multidisciplinary collaborations with the College’s Faculties of Engineering, Natural Sciences and the Imperial College Business School. The combination of outstanding science, excellent staff and innovative teaching methods results in a truly world-class study experience.

Duties and responsibilities

The Postgraduate Education Administrator will join a busy central team that supports the academic leads and the Postgraduate Education Manager across Faculty postgraduate education activities. The post holder will have particular responsibility to project manage the FoM Online Summer School and the On Campus Summer School.

You will maintain the MRC funded PhD costed extensions application process, acting as the main point of contact across College and ensuring that information is accurate. This includes reporting quantitative and qualitative data to the external funder.

You will also lead in managing the Faculty PG Staff-Student Liaison Committees, and the annual ‘Think Imperial!’ online event.

The post would suit an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated administrator seeking to further their career in this stimulating role in higher education. The ability to work independently, managing a busy workload with competing priorities to tight deadlines is essential, as is attention to detail and accuracy. The post holder must have a highly professional approach to their work and possess excellent organisational and communication skills.

The Postgraduate Education Administrator will be located at the South Kensington Campus, but will work on other campuses on occasions, as the Faculty Education Office has staff based across four campuses.

Essential requirements

• Educated to Degree level, or equivalent relevant experience in a similar or related role(s), demonstrating development through a series of progressively more demanding work/roles.
• The role requires proactive and independent working practices to establish effective working relationships with colleagues in the Faculty’s departments as well as networking across College.
• Strong operational knowledge of some areas relating to this role.
• High level of expertise in using MS Office packages (Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Project, Outlook and Word).
• Capacity to navigate difficult situations and conflicting views with tact and diplomacy, while having patience to complete tasks thoroughly and achieve necessary outcomes.
• Able to work independently and as part of a larger team in a large and complex organisation, working collaboratively with colleagues, displaying a professional attitude at all times.
• Excellent communication skills.

Further information

The Postgraduate Education Team work across a wide variety of projects and processes which the successful candidate will have the opportunity to be involved in.

Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Nousheen Tariq, Postgraduate Education Manager, [email protected].

Documents

• Postgrad Education Administrator (Summer Schools) JD.pdf