Clerical & Operations Assistant

Working within a large and highly motivated professional services team within the Department of Geography, you will provide a high quality customer focused service across the breadth of the department’s activities. Primarily providing a front of house reception service to students, academic staff and departmental visitors, you will have responsibility for day to day operations such as room bookings, visitor parking permits, catering orders, and organizing routine office and building maintenance works.

You will also provide clerical assistance to a range of administrative areas including learning and teaching, marketing and recruitment, and finance. Reporting to the Departmental Administrator, you will work with and receive day to day supervision from colleagues in the departmental professional services team. A minimum of five GCSEs at Grade C or above, including maths and English (or equivalent qualifications / experience) and have excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to work flexibly as part of a large, multi-faceted team.

You should be able to demonstrate that you can manage a busy and varied workload and meet strict deadlines whilst maintaining high standards of customer service. You will be a self-starter, willing to take ownership of your work and be committed to your own personal development.