Senior Administrator - School of Physics and AstronomyGrade 5
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School of Physics and Astronomy
Location: University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range 29647 to 31460 with potential progression once in post to 35388
As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 5 salary 29647
Part Time 18 hours per week)
Fixed Term contract up to June 2026
Closing date: 13th May 2025
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years andweare equally proud to be recognised as a leading global want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond support them to succeed and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here todevelopthrough our sectorleading Birmingham Professional programmewhichprovides allprofessionalservices staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full almost 5000professionalservices jobs in a widerange of functionsin Edgbaston andin our campus inDubai there are plenty of opportunities foryou to be able to develop yourcareer at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas innovation and warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we areand how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees andtothe success of the University and depending on the role we offer avarietyof flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible addition you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 dayspaid holidaya year one paid day a year for volunteering occupational sick pay and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus including main bus routes and a train station on campus we have a stateoftheart sports centre with pool shopsplaces to eat and drinkour own art gallery museum and botanical gardens.
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Background
The School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingham invites applications for an Senior Administrator role to support for the Schools Particle Physics Research Group and the wider School. The successful applicant will work closely with members of the Groupto provide a front of house service across a range of functions including HR finance facilities and events. This is a varied role requiring good interpersonal skills and relationship management across staff and students within the School as well as across wider University post holder will be part of the Schools wider administrative team and will also contribute to Schoolwide activities.
The Particle Physics Research Group comprises around 60 people including academics researchers PhD students and technicians. It is a worldleading research centre with longstanding involvement in several large international experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research known as CERN aiming to understand the physical nature of the world around us. The Group is also involved in new experiments at the Boulby Mine in Yorkshire aimed at discovering Dark Matter an extremely elusive component of the universe as well as major new experiments in the US.
For further information about this post please contact: Professor Cristina Lazzeroni and Anna Jenkin .
The School of Physics and Astronomy has a wideranging research portfolio covering not only particle physics but also astrophysics nuclear physics and quantum physics. Our research was ranked top in the UK for 4starcategory research by the Research Excellence Framework 2021. Since 2012 our researchers in the School have been associated with three Nobel prizes (through membership of collaborations and two former colleagues winning the prize for work conducted in Birmingham).
The School of Physics and Astronomy is an Institute of Physics Juno Champion since 2014 and holder of an Athena SWAN Silver Award. Both initiatives recognise the Schools commitment to promote diversity and equality and to encourage collegiality and good working practice for all members of the community whilst also working towards developing an equitable working culture in which all students and staff can achieve their full welcome applications from all qualified applicants and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups in Physics and Astronomy including but not limited to women and Black Asian and Minority Ethnic Groups.
Role Summary
As a Senior Administrator within the Group and wider School you will provide support for a broad range of administrative duties some of which may be will be responsible for supporting colleagues and sharing will be able to use your wide range of skills both technical and administrative and have the opportunity to lead on specific will also have the opportunity to work in different areas of the School and also to help support the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences which the School is part of.
Main Duties
- You will be able to deal with complex systems and procedures and will be expected to offer advice on these including deciding on the response to more complex queries.
- You will be expected to exercise your judgment on the answer to queries or on the direction of work within parameters set by your a daytoday basis you will be expected to resolve more complex queries without necessarily referring to your manager.
- If you have a supervisory role you will line manage your staff taking responsibility for coordinating and prioritising the work of not in a supervisory role you will still be expected to act as a role model and coach members of the team.
- Maintain high profile working relationships with key stakeholders on your own initiative fielding enquiries and ensuring that appropriate information is disseminated to stakeholders as appropriate.
- You may be involved in organising events including booking a venue sending invitations arranging refreshments liaising with speakers manage bookings coordination of colleagues advertising collating feedback and reporting back.
- Will manage some smaller projects on own initiative but will also carry out desk research and source data from internal and external sources in order to contribute to wider projects.
- You will be expected to use a variety of complex University systems and processes to research analyst and interpret complex data producing bespoke reports as required. This may include identifying and resolving issues with the data.
- Support the management development and implementation of operational processes and systems.
- Process more complex data (which may be financial HR studentrelated or other) monitoring accuracy chasing up missing information and resolving any issues as appropriate.
- Provide specialist advice and training to colleagues on area of activity.
- As required provide a professional secretarial service to relevant committees and meetings.
- You may be required to be responsible for one or more of the following:
- monitoring budgets including processing payments authorising expenditure raising concerns where finances are not in line with the budget
- procuring goods and services through the University system
- updating and writing contents for the departments communications e.g. intranet pages
- dealing with health and safety and facilities issues
- HRrelated tasks such as managing staff absence induction or dealing with leavers
- dealing with arrangements for international visitors
- monitoring internal procedures/compliance and ensuring these are followed and disseminated as appropriate.
- Supports equality and values diversity moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.
Required Knowledge Skills Qualifications Experience
- Educated to A Level standard or equivalent level 3 qualification such as a Level 3 NVQ or level 3 national diploma or relevant work experience evidencing the skills and ability to undertake the role.
- Minimum of grade C/4 in Mathematics and English at GCSE or equivalent.
- Assisting the Head of Group in monitoring expenditure and liaising with Research Finance to ensure that funds on grants are utilised. This will also involve assisting with cases for staff extensions and organising financial transactions with CERN.
- Highly proficient IT skills in particular the ability to handle complex electronic diaries and emails the wider MS Office suite of programmes including Excel and PowerPoint and some experience of using an enterprise resource planning package. The post holder should also be confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required.
- Proven ability to plan ahead and anticipate requirements proactively planning own (and sometimes others workloads) to manage time effectively progress tasks concurrently and work to deadlines.
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to write for different audiences and to required deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal skills. The post holder must inspire confidence and command authority with a range of colleagues and provide excellent customer service at all times.
- A high degree of professionalism tact and diplomacy and the ability to exercise discretion regarding the handling and management of sensitive information/issues.
- A high degree of initiative personal judgement resourcefulness flexibility and a selfmotivating approach.
- Ability to work effectively in a large complex organisation and to develop a good understanding of howthe Universityand higher education institutions work.
- Ability to understand policy and procedures and how to apply these.
- Understands the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.
- Ability to identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant policies and procedures.
Dimensions
This role will require the exercise of personal initiative within and beyond the department. May manage a team or budgets.
Planning and Organising
The role is required to work independently on daily weekly and monthly tasks but also on projects with mediumlongerterm horizons without daily manage workloads of other staff.
Problem Solving and decision making
They will work with direction from management but with a significant degree of will deal with more complex queries and be expected to resolve any problems in their area of responsibility. They may also manage the workload of others or coach others to achieve results.
Internal and External relationships
This role will be liaising with internal colleagues and stakeholders likely to be Universitywide and with external stakeholders.
Informal enquiries to Professor Cristina Lazzeroni email: and Anna Jenkin email: .
View our staff values and behaviourshere
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyoneon our website.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Part-Time
