Start Date: 19^th August 2024 (to be confirmed)
End Date: 19^th November 2024
Location: Highfield Campus
Hours: 21 Hours per week, Please note, we cannot offer a Certificate of Sponsorship for this assignment.

Job Purpose:

To provide professional services within a specialist support field.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• To be responsible for provision of specialist/professional advice to aid management decisions and provide support services within specific parameters/professional guidelines to both internal and external customers
• To contribute to University wide projects using specialist knowledge and/or lead short-term projects within own department.
• To carry out detailed assessment and analysis of issues and problems, using specialist knowledge to identify and recommend appropriate solutions.
• To draft reports and deliver briefings and presentations, as required.
• To attend internal and external meetings to ensure that departmental issues are appropriately represented and reported.
• Any other duties as allocated by the line manager following consultation with the post holder.

Essential Skills:

• Proven experience of planning and progressing work activities within broad professional guidelines and/or broad organisational policy.
• Understanding of how the specialist/professional services provided by the post-holder support the objectives of the University.
• Able to apply an awareness of principles and trends in a specialist or professional field and an awareness of how this affects activities in the University.
• Excellent Microsoft Office experience particularly Excel.
• Able to seek opportunities to progress a broad range of activities within professional guidelines and in support of University policy.
• Able to develop understanding of long-standing and complex problems and to apply professional knowledge and experience to solve them.
• Able to proactively work with colleagues in other work areas to achieve outcomes.
• Able to delegate effectively, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of team members to build effective teamwork.
• Able to formulate development plans for own staff to meet required skills.
• Able to provide accurate and timely specialist guidance on complex issues.
• Able to use influencing and negotiating skills to develop understanding and gain co-operation.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of successful project management.
• Experience of successfully managing and developing staff.