Job Description

Salary

Salary 25,448 to 25,733 per annum pro rata 12,724 to 12,866 per annum

Contractual hours

18.5

Basis

Part-time

Package

Local Government Pension Scheme

Job category/type

Professional Services

Date posted

06/05/2025

Job reference

RQ0000002010

Academic Registry

Part Time: 18.5 Hours per week (0.5 fte)

About this role

Join our highly professional, committed and student focused academic community within Academic Registry, based at our Chichester campus.

Academic Registry provides a professional service supporting students, staff and other external agencies, ensuring that records of all students are maintained and accurate, and they are seeking an Administrative Assistant to join their busy team on a part time basis.

The role includes providing an enquiry response service and counter service, dealing with enquiries in person, by telephone and through written correspondence and email, and monitoring accuracy and completeness of student data, including data entry in accordance with Academic Registry processes and procedures.

About you

You will have previous administrative experience, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrable capability in literacy and numeracy. The role is predominantly desk based, working to tight deadlines and managing high volume tasks. It requires a flexible approach and a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. The University continually seeks to improve its service provision and therefore a proactive approach to contributing to the development of the Department is essential.

About the team

You will work within the team to strengthen the distinctiveness of the University's student experience as high-quality, personalised, accessible and aspirational. You will need to demonstrate an ability to work both collaboratively with others in the team and independently depending on the tasks required of you.

We are a University that prides itself on our sense of community, including an excellent staff experience.

In addition to your salary we offer a competitive reward package with a range of staff benefits and discounts which include:
Defined Benefit pension schemes via our provider the Local Government Pension Scheme. Your own monthly contributions are enhanced with employer contributions and a substantial automatic lump sum life cover scheme enhancement. A paid closure period over the Christmas break is in addition to our generous holiday allowance with bank holidays too and an occupational sickness scheme. There's also an on-site gym at our Chichester campus; a cycle purchase salary sacrifice scheme; subsidised bus travel between our Bognor and Chichester campuses and Chichester town centre; 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme to support our staff and extensive personal / professional training opportunities throughout the year.

Applicants are urged to submit their application form as soon as possible as there is an urgent need to fill this position. The University reserves the right to close this vacancy early should suitable applicant(s) apply before the end of the closing date.

Enquiries are welcomed by Julie Howieson, Student Records Senior Administrator on 01243 816026 or AcademicRegistry@chi.ac.uk

Closing Date: Tuesday 20th May 2025

Interview Date: Friday 6th June 2025

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