Job Description

Sheffield
21/09/2025


Curriculum Support Administrator


The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.


Job details

Salary

25,826 - 28,534 per annum

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Package

30 Days Annual Leave (222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays (59.2 hours)- this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period
17.1% Employer Pension Contribution into Local Government Pension Scheme

Date posted

27/08/2025

Job reference

RR00000797


Job description

About us

The Sheffield College is a further and higher education institution dedicated to providing academic, vocational, and professional qualifications to approximately 13,000 young people and adults annually. Our mission is to transform lives through learning, advocating for inclusivity and diversity at every stage.

About the

role

As a Curriculum Support Administrator, you will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the local curriculum administrative services function where a level of professional autonomy, independent decision making and proactiveness is required. Your focus will be to a administrate the 'Student Journey' from application to certification and progression in a 'Student First' focused team.

You will be providing a pro-active service in a busy, fast paced curriculum administrative services function and will be providing an effective, student focused support across the college which oversees the curriculum and student journey administration. You will be required to engage in a professional training plan that supports the delivery of an excellent service.

Main Responsibilities:

Actively engage in staffing the curriculum administrative service function during core business hours with a need for flexibility


Maintain an excellent standard of administrative support to assigned clusters of curriculum academy areas


Receive and make telephone calls, taking messages, answering queries, and directing enquiries to appropriate to appropriate colleagues/teams


Deliver various curriculum administrative systems and processes


Engage in embedding the colleges curriculum administrative systems and processes


Services various internal meetings, including preparing meeting agendas and papers, distributing these timely, producing high quality, accurate meeting notes and recording and monitoring follow up actions


Deliver an excellent customer service experience


Process incoming and outgoing mail


Maintain excellent working relationships with service users of the administrative service function


If you want to find out more about the role please contact Sophia Atherton, Administration Services Manager, Sophia.Atherton@sheffcol.ac.uk

What we can offer you

As the successful candidate, you will be offered a salary of between 25,826 - 28,534 per annum based upon a combination of the skills, knowledge and experience that you can bring to the role.

Our benefits

Enhanced Pension contributions scheme with SYPA - 17.1% Annual leave - 30 Days(222 hours) + 8 Bank Holidays(59.2 hours)- this includes a discretionary Christmas closure period Health and wellbeing, we offer + Employee assistance programme through Bupa
+ Occupational Health through PAM
+ Free eye tests for VDU users
Free Parking is available at the majority of our campuses


Further information can be found on ourBenefits andCareer Development pages.

Disability Confident

We are a Disability Confidentemployer and are committed to removing barriers for applicants with a disability during our recruitment process, upon appointment and as an employee. Please review our Recruitment Guidelines for Disabled Candidates which provides further information on reasonable adjustments and how the Disability Confident scheme works in practice. If you require any reasonable adjustments or any support at any point throughout the process, please contact jobs@sheffcol.ac.uk

Armed Forces Covenant

As part of our commitment through the Armed Forces Covenant,we're pledged to support the Armed Forces Community. Recognising the value Personnel, Veterans and military families contribute to our community and country.

Safeguarding

We are an employer who is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of students. Successful applicants will be required to have an enhanced DBS check and will be subject to safer recruiting procedures. Further details on our safer recruiting procedures, including the employment of ex-offenders can be found here Safeguarding

Next Steps:

To apply:

Click and follow the links to complete the online application. For queries regarding the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team at jobs@sheffcol.ac.ukCVs are currently not accepted.

As a Leader in Diversity employer, we encourage applications from everyone and value diversity in our workforce.

Closing date: 21st September 2025

Please be aware - If we have a high number of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy earlier.