Senior Administrative Assistant (Placement Unit)
University of Derby
Derby
- Expired
- Salary:
- £19,271
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 July 2017
Job overview
KR1
Monday - Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm and Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Reference: 0409-17
We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Administrative Assistant to work within our Placement unit.
In this role you will be expected to proactively contribute to the provision of a quality service, provided by the Placement Unit. You will be required to take responsibility for the day-to-day administration of student placement activity, including the development and maintenance of the ARC database. Providing excellent customer service you will act as the key point of contact for your area of responsibility and provide advice and guidance to academic staff, students, placement settings and stakeholders in relation to the Health Programmes.
Your role will involve responsibility for managing your own portfolio of programmes from start to finish with responsibility for organising and prioritising your own workloads. You will be required to use initiative to resolve problems and queries relevant to responsibilities. Your role will involve frequent interaction with colleagues and customers where a high level of written and verbal communication will be required.
Closing date 30th July 2017
Apply link https://jobs.derby.ac.uk/0409-17
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect everyone who works for us to also share this commitment and to treat people with courtesy and respect.
We value diversity and wish to promote equality at all levels
Location: Kedleston Road
About University of Derby
- University of Derby
- Kedleston Road, Derby
- Derbyshire
- DE22 1GB
- United Kingdom
Due to open in September 2015, The Derby Manufacturing UTC will provide innovative, dynamic, and empowering education and training for young people who have an interest and aptitude for engineering and technological based careers. With a focus on engineering and emerging technologies, our aim is to develop young people who are skilled, professional and enterprising - who can make a significant contribution to reinvigorating Engineering and Science in Derby, Derbyshire and the East Midlands.
The sponsors and partners of the Derby Manufacturing UTC believe that the development of this new UTC will have a positive impact on the lives of learners, our communities, and the engineering and emerging technology based industries across Derby, Derbyshire and the East Midlands. The UTC will make a significant contribution to the raising of awareness of the sustainability issues affecting this country and throughout the world through its partnerships with engineering and emerging technologies industries in the conurbation. In addition the UTC will be a catalyst for supporting the raising of standards in surrounding schools, at all levels, through the sharing of outstanding practice.
The UTC will bring together the established skills of the partner organisations to collectively drive forward an increase in the available opportunities for young people in the city. The UTC will use innovative and technologically advanced methods of teaching and learning, will increase participation on learning programmes with essential elements of vocational and work based learning, will inspire young people to achieve above their expectations and will drive forward an increase in the skill set of the workforce within the Derby area. It will provide opportunities for learners to access high quality contextualised learning programmes, enhanced by close links, with employers and stakeholders across the wider Derbyshire area. The UTC will transform the educational opportunities and outcomes for young people from across the region by providing a challenging and innovative work-related curriculum.
With a distinctive focus on developing multidisciplinary skills through both academic and practical experiences, the UTC will improve youth employability in engineering and emerging technologies in Derby, Derbyshire and the East Midlands.
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