The Mathematical Institute is seeking a Graduate Studies Assistant to join its friendly Academic Administration team. This is a permanent full-time post, and is available for an immediate start.
As Graduate Studies Assistant, you will play an essential part in welcoming and supporting our postgraduate research students. Your main focus will be to support admissions and funding for our postgraduate research degree programmes, but you will also deliver on-course administration for our postgraduate research degree courses, reporting to the Deputy Head of Academic Administration.
To successfully deliver as Graduate Studies Assistant, you will have first rate organisational ability, good communication skills and be able to work independently with a high degree of accuracy. A comprehensive knowledge of regulations, policies and procedures must be acquired; therefore, the successful candidate will have the ability to quickly assimilate and understand written material, and be able to apply these regulations, policies and procedures appropriately and with discretion. You will be able to prioritise your workload and deploy proficient IT skills.
We proudly hold a departmental Athena SWAN Silver Award and an institutional Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, which guide our progress towards advancing racial and gender equality. As part of our strategic aim to improve staff equality and diversity, we would particularly welcome applications from BIPOC candidates, who are currently under-represented in positions of this type within the department.
Application process
If you would like to discuss the role and the department in more detail, please contact Dave Borthwick, Deputy Head of Academic Administration, via email: @email. Informal enquiries regarding the application process should be directed to the Recruitment Coordinator (email: @email), quoting vacancy reference 168367.
Applicants will be selected for interview purely based on their ability to satisfy the selection criteria as outlined in full in the job description. You will be required to upload a supporting statement, setting out how you meet the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae and the names and contact details of two referees as part of your online application.
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online. To apply for this post and for further details, including the job description and selection criteria, please click on the link below:
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=168367
Only applications received before 12:00 noon UK time on Monday 23 October can be considered.