JOB DESCRIPTION

UE05: £25,285.00 - £28,929.00 Per Annum Pro Rata

CAHSS – LLC – Confucius Institute    

Part Time (0.8FTE): 28 Hours per Week (equivalent to 4 days per week)

Fixed Term Contract, initially for 3 years

We are looking for an Administrator to join our Confucius Institute at the University.

The Opportunity:

The Administrator will support the management, organisation and operation of the Institute, ensuring a consistent approach and an efficient and effective customer service to internal staff (both UoE and CI) and to external customers and enquirers. The post-holder will assist with essential day-to-day business processes, supporting a range of operational functions from financial, events, marketing, and enquiry management. Contributing to the continuous development and improvement of the Institute’s function.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• Cultural intelligence and an interest in China and the Chinese language

• Previous experience of administration and social media work ideally within a large multi-departmental environment

• Well- developed interpersonal and organisational skills, with ability to deal confidently with customers 

• Ability to communicate effectively and clearly, especially information on the work and services of the CI to non-Chinese speakers, with good interpersonal skills 

• Ability to plan, prioritise, take initiative and find proactive solutions, contribute new ideas to projects, work unsupervised, under pressure and multitask effectively

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As a valued member of our team you can expect: 

A truly cross-cultural, exciting, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which include a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible hybrid working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. 

Interviews will likely be held on August 10th 2023

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK. 

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ABOUT THE TEAM

The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.

Teaching and Learning

We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.

Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.

With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.

Our large postgraduate community comprises students on taught and research masters programmes, as well as a highly active group of PhD candidates. At postgraduate level, we are a leading centre for the study of film, including exhibition and curation, and for comparative literature, intermediality, and translation studies.

Research

LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.

In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).