School/Department Student Experience
Based at Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work 26 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type Permanent
Salary £20,152 per annum, pro rata
Apply by 16/05/2021

Role Description

Cranfield University’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships is creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Education Services provides a wide range of support to the University's Schools.  The department’s strategic objectives are to provide a professional and efficient service to the University's Schools in all of these areas.  This requires engagement at all levels within the Schools, and close liaison with other central service departments to provide a coherent student experience. 

Registry is comprised of two teams; Student Records and Exams.  This vacancy is for a Registry Administrator within the Student Records team. The daily work of this team is primarily working with the student records database (SITS): monitoring assignment submissions and exam attendance, entering marks and processing changes to registration. This daily work follows the annual Student Records team task of creating modules within the database and creating corresponding submission points on the virtual learning environment.

About the Role

The Registry Administrator will also be required to:

• Ensure that all activities of the Registry are completed in a timely manner, including providing relevant reports on activities to the Registry Manager on workloads and completion of tasks
• Respond to enquiries and provide guidance to staff and students on the Senate Regulations and Handbooks and/or referring more complex queries to Senior Registry Administrators to respond to
• Participate in major student events, including main registration events, archiving exercises and graduation
• Other general duties assigned to the post holder by his or her line manager or senior officers in Education Services, commensurate with the level and duties of the post

About You

The post holder will hold a GCSE in English, or equivalent.  Demonstrable experience of working in an administrative office environment, using modern office equipment and experience of data entry are essential. 

The post holder will be IT literate, including word, email, internet and database applications; an adaptable team member who on occasions is able to work on own initiative, unsupervised with excellent interpersonal skills and a strong work ethic. 

Previous experience of working with computer-based records systems and preferably SITS (Tribal Student Records System) and an understanding of higher education administration are desirable.

Our Values

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here. We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential.

Diversity and Inclusion

Our equal opportunities and diversity monitoring has shown that women and minority ethnic groups are currently underrepresented within the university and so we actively encourage applications from eligible candidates from these groups.

Flexible Working

We actively consider flexible working options such as part-time, compressed or flexible hours and/or an element of homeworking, and whether a position can be carried out at any of our locations.  We commit to exploring the possibilities for each role. Find out more here.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Subrinah Rana, Registry Manager, on (E): Subrinah.m.rana@cranfield.ac.uk