Office Manager

Office Manager

Department: Digital, Data & Technology Group

Salary: Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Closing date: Monday 29 January 2024

We are seeking an Office Manager to join our Digital, Data & Technology Group!

About the role

We are a passionate community of technical experts who provide digital, data and technology services that are accessible, relevant, and secure. We are motivated by helping people solve problems, be more effective in what they do today and innovating to raise the bar of what can be achieved in future.

The Central Office concept has proven its worth during the Evolution Project ‘try before you buy’ and is now being established as a permanent capability in line with Faculty and Department approaches. It will ensure efficient, effective, coherent administrative support to the leadership team and wider department.

The Office Manager is responsible for ensuring timely, initiative-taking, coherent and coordinated administrative support to DDaT senior leadership, department-wide activities including coordination of the Leadership Team meetings and ensuring timely, quality reports to university committees including the University Executive Board.

The role will incorporate aspects of research and analysis, information and communication management, independent project management and project coordination. It will require liaison with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. You will work closely with the leadership team and develop an in depth understanding of the business of the department.

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

About you

The main areas of responsibility are ensuring timely, effective, coherent communications to staff and wider university colleagues; efficient and professional support to the CIDO and Senior Leadership Team (SLT); planning and preparation for departmental meetings; effective record keeping and information management to allow easy retrieval and archiving.

The incumbent is the ‘gateway’ into DDaT for all non-specialist queries or requirements and is the face of the department working closely with leadership team, HR and finance staff.

What we can offer you:

– a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
– generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
– we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, open to flexible working arrangements
– an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
– a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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Other organisations may call this role Reception Manager, Head Office Manager, Facilities Manager, Reception Team Leader, Reception Supervisor or Office Coordinator.

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