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PhD Administrator - UCL Division of Biosciences

Details


1096579


UCL


02/06/2025


3 Months


Full-time; 36.5 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£18.88


£3.53

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a PhD Administrator for the UCL Division of Biosciences. This role is for a June 2nd start date and has a projected end date of September 30th 2025. Payment is set at £18.88 per hour + holiday pay. This role will be campus based working.
 
Biosciences is one of the world’s foremost centres for research and teaching in the biological sciences and one of the largest Divisions within UCL, undertaking a significant amount of research and teaching. The Division has a diverse portfolio addressing all areas of biology from protein interactions to cell function, organism development, genetics, population studies and the environment. Activity is underpinned by high calibre science technology platforms and state of the art equipment. Educational activity includes a range of undergraduate programmes, an expanding number of Masters Programmes and a substantial number of postgraduate research students.

Duties and responsibilities

An excellent opportunity for the right applicant to join the UCL Division of Biosciences Postgraduate team in supporting a significant and diverse research community. 
 
The post offers an opportunity to contribute to the Division’s ambitions to grow our research population whilst deliver a great student experience to our existing students. 
 
The post holder will provide comprehensive and effective committee and administrative support to the Senior Administrators in Biosciences Doctoral Training and CPD, Postgraduate Research and LIDo teams in Biosciences.

Skills and experience

  • Educated to ‘A’ Level standard or equivalent.
  • Administration experience, working in a team and communicating with a wide range of people.
  • Experience in a multifunctional role including financial processing.
  • Experience of working in Higher Education with postgraduate research students.
  • Good working knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel, Word, Outlook and web based platforms.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including accurate grammar, spelling and punctuation).
  • Excellent interpersonal and networking skills with the ability to relate to a wide variety of people.
  • Ability to research and extrapolate information using the internet and databases.
  • Ability to collate and present information to inform reports for a variety of uses.
  • Good numeracy skills with the ability to present and interpret statistics.
  • Proven ability to work effectively under pressure and to deadline, managing workload and prioritising tasks effectively.
  • Ability to work supportively and collaboratively as part of a team as well as working independently.
  • Ability to motivate self and others.
  • Ability to use initiative and be proactive in dealing with workloads.
  • Helpful, cooperative and can-do approach.
  • High standards of presentation and the ability to relate easily to people from a wide variety of different cultures and backgrounds.
  • Commitment to UCL’s policy of equal opportunity and the ability to work harmoniously with colleagues and students of all cultures and backgrounds.
  • Flexible and adaptable, and willing to adopt additional responsibility and learn new skills, completing additional training when required.

Location
UCL; fully on campus based

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Wednesday May 14th. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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