Postgraduate Taught Coordinator

This position is open to internal applicants only.

We are seeking to appoint an outstanding academic administrator to be the lead for our Postgraduate Programmes and to work in partnership with the Academic Programmes Manager to coordinate all aspects of teaching and course administration.

The successful candidate for this challenging position will be of high intellectual ability, with recent and direct experience of academic administrative work in Higher Education. The work expected of you in this role will be interesting and rewarding but also diverse and demanding. You will draw on strong numeracy skills and the ability to work with large and complex datasets as well as to understand and interpret complex written information. You will work effectively to build relationships within the department and across the University and design work methods that encourage the team to work collaboratively. You will have first-rate analytical, organisational, communication and IT skills, and you will work systematically, to a high level of accuracy and to tight deadlines. You will be willing and able to work harmoniously as a team member within a culture of academic leadership, and exhibit a pleasant, helpful demeanour to students and staff. You will display a willingness to make decisions as necessary and also relate key work tasks to organizational objectives. You will have a high level of personal discretion and judgement and a mature and responsible attitude to your work.

To make informal enquiries about the post, please contact Grace Parsons on email: grace.parsons@education.ox.ac.uk

The post holder will be based at the Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, Oxford.

Applications for this vacancy are to be made online and you will be required to upload a supporting statement and CV as part of your online application. Your supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post.

This post is offered on a full-time, 2 year fixed-term basis.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Friday 30th August 2024.