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Student and Academic Support Lead

Employer
CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY
Location
Cranfield, United Kingdom
Salary
£28,929 to £29,674 per annum
Closing date
6 Feb 2025
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Job Details

Faculty or Department: Education Services
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37 hours per week, normally worked Monday to Friday. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Permanent
Fixed Term Period: These are permanent positions however secondments opportunities will also be considered.
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £28,929 to £29,674 per annum.
Apply by: 06/02/2025

Role Description

We welcome applications from motivated individuals eager to join dedicated, hardworking teams who take pride in making a difference.

The University considers these positions to be business critical. The SAS teams provide essential support to students and academic course teams to ensure high quality delivery of the student experience.

About the Role

You will be responsible for the delivery of academic administration, student support and ensuring high levels of customer service and student satisfaction. You will be the key point of contact for students, staff and external partners on specific courses for advice, guidance and support.

You will work very closely with academic staff to ensure that the student experience is effective, consistent and of a high standard.  It will be important to build good working relationships across the University.

The role will include preparing evidence and documentation for decisions to be made on student academic progress, while being confident in advising on the most likely outcome. Experience of effectively and sensitively dealing with difficult situations is essential.  You will also be able to prioritise and delegate to manage your own workload.

About You

We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated administrator, with a passion for high quality customer service. You will be IT literate, including Microsoft packages and database applications. Ideally, you will have experience of academic administration, preferably within a Higher Education Institution, and of working with regulations. You will have a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail and excellent communication skills. Proven analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills are a must.  

In return, you will have exciting opportunities for career development in this key position, and will supportworld leading research and education, joining a supportive team environment.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Our Values and Commitments

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. We are a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

How to apply

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Rebecca Smyth rebecca.smyth@cranfield.ac.uk

Apply online now. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further details on E: hrrecruitment@cranfield.ac.uk. Please quote reference number 4993

Closing date for receipt of applications: 6 February 2025

Interviews to be held: February 2025

Please note that we reserve the right to close this advert prior to the stated closing date should we receive sufficient numbers of applications. Therefore, we would encourage you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Company

Cranfield is world-leading in its contribution to global innovation. With our emphasis on the aerospace, agrifood, defence and security, environmental technology, leadership and management, manufacturing and transport systems sectors, we have changed the way society thinks, works and learns.

We generate and transform knowledge, translating it to the benefit of society. Our partners, from micro SMEs to the largest blue-chip multinationals, from governments across the world to NGOs and charities, tell us this is what they value about Cranfield.

Innovation is part of Cranfield’s ‘corporate DNA’, evolved over 60 years of commitment to this agenda.

Our work informs policy for governments and produces new technologies and products for the world of commerce. We draw on this pool of research and consultancy to provide our students with a distinctive ‘real-world’ learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and transfer their new knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the ‘Cranfield way’ but it has never been more important than in today’s world.

People are key to our competitive advantage and so we need to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We aim to create a culture where you can flourish and succeed and, in turn, contribute towards Cranfield’s success.

Company info
Telephone
+(44)01234 750111
Location
CRANFIELD
CRANFIELD
BEDFORDSHIRE
MK43 0AL
GB

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