Group Administrator
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Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Cambridgeshire
- Expired
- Salary:
- £23,000-£29,000 FTE
- Job type:
- Part Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 11 December 2022
Job overview
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Our Group Administrators are essential to supporting us to provide exams and educational resources to our learners around the world. Providing administrative support to a busy team of Assessment Managers, you will deal with payments, purchasing, meeting arrangements, publication of assessment materials, minute taking, contracting consultants and supporting exam series tasks.
About the role
You will be providing high quality general administrative support for the team members, including managing communications within and beyond the team, re-directing queries in colleagues' absences, monitoring the shared inbox and monitoring calendars.
Supporting our Maths and ICT teams, you will assist in our regular meetings by taking minutes and working with our Group Managers to allocate workloads out and complete shared/team tasks. As you contribute to divisional problem solving, you will liaise and work with other Group Administrators to ensure we are on track to complete all individual and shared tasks.
As well as supporting our teams, you will support our schools and centres across the world by publishing our assessment materials on our School Support Hub. Working with our teams, you will ensure the documents we produce are error free, and any data is clear and accurate (whether this is spreadsheets, letters, or emails).
As a growing business, you will support our team by assisting with examiner recruitment and managing examiner applications, as well as support new Assessment Managers by setting up their accounts and ordering any hardware they will need. You will also manage the commissioning of consultant, including completing commissioning letters and ensuring payment of fees as relevant, managing purchasing and payment of invoices.
About you
You have intermediate to advanced level skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and MS Teams, as well as excellent organisational and planning skills. With a confident telephone manner, you will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including a high standard of written and spoken English.
There is so much more to this role, so please do see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- Group personal pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Green travel schemes
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 11/12/12 and interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 19/12/22.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role as it does not meet the minimum skill and/or salary requirements.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
Attached documents
About Cambridge University Press & Assessment
- Cambridge University Press & Assessment
- The Triangle Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB2 8EA
- United Kingdom
The Cambridge University Press & Assessment Group is a department of the University of Cambridge. We have three exam boards – University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL), and OCR. We are a not-for-profit organisation.
We're proud of our 150 years heritage and the expertise that it has given us. Cambridge University Press & Assessment operates and manages the University's three exam boards.
The world's largest provider of English language curriculums and qualifications for young learners and adults.
The world's largest provider of international programmes and qualifications for 5 to 19 year old learners.
OCR is one of the UK's biggest exam boards offering academic and vocational curriculums and qualifications. Whether you are building new IT systems, supporting our customers or developing one of our new qualifications, every person at Cambridge University Press & Assessment is making a difference. Being part of the education of eight million candidates, in over 170 countries every year, means we are opening doors to a better future every day.
We aim for these values to be at the heart of everything we do
And we believe actions speak louder than words when it comes to demonstrating this. We think we’re great people to work with, but then maybe we’re biased! What we are certain about though is that if you join Cambridge University Press & Assessment you’ll be surrounded by talented people with diverse backgrounds and skills, working together in a friendly and supportive way.
Real development opportunities
We have ambitious plans to become the leading world authority on assessment. It matters to us that people rise to bigger challenges and reach their potential. As your ambitions and interests grow there will be opportunities to move around the business and gain new skills.
We’ll expect you to take responsibility for fulfilling your own potential, and we will provide you with the training and development opportunities to manage this.
Did you know that we are not only based in Cambridge?
We also have a site in Coventry, as well as a number of other smaller offices around the UK and Overseas
- Staff discounts at many retailers both online and in-store.
- Cambridge University Card - providing access to a number of university facilities such as the University Library and discounts at the Cambridge University Press bookshop.
- Season Ticket Loan - for travelling by rail or bus.
- Discounted access to the University of Cambridge Sport Centre, along with various other local gyms.
- Family friendly enhanced benefits when you might need them such as maternity and paternity and childcare vouchers.
- Limited access to nursery and play scheme places (waiting list in operation).
In addition to…
- Generous pension scheme.
- Performance related pay.
- Subsidised staff restaurants.
- At least 36 days holiday (including bank holidays).
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