Senior Education Coordinator (Placements & Partnerships) Ref 20656
School/department: Social Science/Education & Social Work
Hours: Full-time hours considered up to a maximum of 1.0 FTE. Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Contract: Permanent
Reference: 20656
Salary: starting at £28,131 to £32,411 per annum, pro-rata if part-time.
Placed on: 26 June 2023.
Closing date: 19 July 2023. Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.
Expected Interview date: To be confirmed.
Expected start date: As soon as possible.
Job description
The Social Science Group of Schools is seeking to appoint a full-time Senior Education Coordinator to work as part of a shared-service team supporting the development of placement and partnership activity in the School of Education and Social Work.
This is an exciting role to provide dedicated support for sourcing and developing student placements and developing partnership relations. The successful candidate will require excellent organizational and will be able to demonstrate that they can work well as part of a team.
The post-holder will support key processes in the remit of school Education activity supporting the work of Heads of Department, Course Leads and professional services staff.
Duties will include, but are not limited to:
•Work directly with partners and tutors to a) broker appropriate placements to support a range of ESW courses, b) plan and develop robust and effective systems to support the identification, development and quality assurance of placements
• Maintain clear and effective communication with School placement providers; including the administration of partnership monitoring and evaluation procedures
•To line manage the placement coordinator and co-ordinate the provision of clerical and administrative support, ensuring that the processes and services for which they are responsible operate smoothly; including payments to placement partners and partnership agreements. Look at ways to improve systems to streamline processes
•Ensure timely and accurate records management and compliance with University regulations and quality standards, maintaining and updating appropriate records of student placements
•Assist with the appropriate production, distribution and collation of partnership and student placement related documentation
•Provide support to the placement coordinator with placement allocation and payments, especially during busy times of the year, or when required.
Support the organisation of partnership events Initiative, flexibility and the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, are essential. A good working knowledge of Microsoft packages is also important. Experience of working in the HE academic administration would be an advantage especially experience in the education subject discipline.
Please contact Greg Harris, g.harris@sussex.ac.uk for informal enquiries.
The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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Download Job Description and Person Specification 20656 [PDF 139.72KB]
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How to apply
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