Operations Officer - Education and Student Experience (INTERNAL, fixed term)
Description
Closing Date
Monday 02 June 2025
Interview Date
To be confirmed
Reference
SOC129325X1
INTERNAL VACANCY
This vacancy is open to employees of the University of Nottingham only.
About the role
Working closely with our academics, administrative teams and Education and Student Experience (ESE) colleagues both within the School and across the Faculty of Social Sciences, your role will be to support various activities during the academic year ranging from student recruitment and induction, through timetabling and assessments to graduation.
About you:
To be successful in this role you will need first-rate organisational and administrative skills, experience of managing your own workload and day to day priorities, plus excellent interpersonal and customer service skills which will enable you to interact effectively with a range of internal and external stakeholders. Proven IT skills (experience with MS Office) and excellent attention to detail are also essential, as is experience of working supportively as part of a team in a fast-paced and varied environment.
What we offer:
- A friendly, diverse, and supportive working environment
- Generous holiday entitlement of 27 days plus standard bank holidays and five university closure days including closure between Christmas and New Year.
- We are committed to staff development through the provision of training, continued support, and career progression opportunities
- You will have access to a range of benefits and rewards, including fitness and health facilities, staff discounts, travel schemes and many more. To find out more about what we can offer you, follow the link to our benefits website
The University of Nottingham supports hybrid working with arrangements agreed locally. In practice this means the team balances the working week with some time spent on campus and some time spent working from home to support flexibility, recognising that individuals and teams can be effective given the choice of environment.
Please contact Trish Limb (trish.limb@nottingham.ac.uk) if you have further questions about this role. Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
Requests for secondment from internal candidates may be considered on the basis that prior agreement has been sought from both your current line manager and the manager of your substantive post, if you are already undertaking a secondment role.
Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs - indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. Learn more about the university commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion .
We want you to succeed in our recruitment process and have published Candidate Guidance for you to access information and support on application and interview process.
We offer a range of benefits, visit Your Benefits website to learn what we can offer you.
We welcome applications from UK, Europe and from across the globe and we want to make your transition to living in the UK as smooth as possible. Visit the Moving to Nottingham page to find out more.
This position does not fulfil the UK Visas & Immigration sponsorship criteria for Skilled Worker, therefore we can only accept applications from candidates who already have the right to work in UK.
About University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a research intensive university ranked in the world top 100 providing teaching excellence to its 45,000 students across five campuses.