Lancaster University Hiring for Admissions Assistant Job at Lancaster, England Full Time

Lancaster Medical School is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic administrator with excellent administrative and organisational skills. You will join a resourceful and supportive Admissions Team that administers all stages of the high-stakes processes that recruit students to our Medicine programme. In addition, you will work closely with the Academic Lead for Widening Participation to administer systems targeted at broadening assess to studying medicine.

To fulfil the requirements of this post, you must possess excellent organisational skills and have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Word, with a keen eye for detail. At different points of the academic year, the admissions cycle is very busy so you must possess a calm, flexible approach to your work. You must be a proven team player and communicator, and committed to integrating into a busy and highly pressured office environment, working with a wide range of colleagues.

The Faculty provides an environment that strongly supports the individual needs of each employee, promoting a healthy work-life balance. We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis, as well as the Athena SWAN Charter, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in higher education and research.

Applications for flexible, part time or job share working are welcome, subject to business need.

Lancaster Medical School is committed to ensuring our workforce is reflective of our diverse student population and is therefore committed to increasing representation of staff of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds across all roles and at all levels.

The post requires some working outside of normal office hours and peak busy times of the year run from mid-January to the start of March and mid-August.

This is a fixed-term post until 31st August 2023 to cover the secondment of the current post holder.

Enquiries to Sam Porter, Admissions Officer, email: s.porter@lancaster.ac.uk

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.