Vacancy for Academic Administrator

Vacancy for Academic Administrator

The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS) has a vacancy for an experienced administrator to join our team as our Academic Administrator.

This role primarily supports the work of our three-academic staff and of our 50+ students, and involves office clerical activities and assistance with the development of the current Distance Learning programmes. The Academic Administrator will be based in the main reception office of Wesley House, so an element of close interaction with our colleagues from Wesley House is inherent to the role.

Your key strengths will include good writing skills as you will need to create accurate documents such as letters, programmes, and publicity content; excellent intercultural communications skills liaising with academic staff, support staff, students and visitors from all over the world ; good systems skills for tasks such as monitoring recruitment enquiries, monitoring student progress and managing bookings for internal courses; and good organisational skills, such as making sure actions agreed in meetings are followed up and reported.

This is a part-time position, in the first instance. You will normally work from 9am to 1pm on Monday to Friday (i.e. 20h / week), but there may be some evening and weekend working for which you can take time off in lieu the following week.

Based on the working hours, the salary is in the range £14,850 – £16,000 with 15 (working) days holiday / annum, plus bank holidays.

Closing date: 5pm Monday 22nd November 2021. Interviews to be held in the week starting 6 December 2021 (Date to be announced closer to that date).

See document below for full Job Description.

IOCS Academic Administrator