This is a short term temporary assignment to start now until the end of August 2025
 East London University based
Full time hours - Monday 0 Friday 09.00 - 17.00
- Strategic Support: Proactively supporting the Dean, Deputy Dean, School Manager, and Executive Committee members with key projects by prioritising business, commissioning agenda items, drafting and circulating agendas and papers, tracking actions arising from key meetings, and ensuring effective follow-up.?Â
- Project Coordination: Working closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective forward planning for projects supporting senior team commitments, including commissioning and/or preparing high-level documentation and detailed briefings for meetings, events, speaking engagements, and overseas visits.?Â
- Research and Analysis: Undertaking qualitative and quantitative research and analysis on specific topics, draft briefings, reports, background papers, and presentations to support the senior team's decision-making.?Â
- Administrative Support: Providing full administrative support, including diary management, managing and coordinating travel and accommodation, planning and organising high-level events and international visits, taking minutes, preparing agendas, circulating papers, and preparing reports for committees.?Â
- Committee Servicing: Providing administrative support for committees, including preparing the agenda and writing minutes.?Â
- Academic Recruitment: Working with HoD’s to assist with the recruitment of academic staff.Â
- Communication and Correspondence: Drafting correspondence and complex documents, format reports, coordinate briefing notes, and disseminate documents as appropriate.?Â
- Relationship Building: Proactively building positive relationships and networks across the university as a representative of the school’s Executive Committee.?Â
- Governance and Compliance: Working with the Director of Operations to support activities related to governance, compliance, and legal matters such as risk register, GDPR, information risk, cyber security, business continuity, and FOI requests.?Â
A working background within Higher Education is required due to the nature of the short term assignment