Placements Internships & Volunteer Admin

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Student Operations and Support
Location:  Brighton – Moulsecoomb
Salary: 
£25,742 to £28,759
per annum
Closing Date:  Sunday 11 February 2024
Reference:  SO5321-24-029

Could you use your administration experience to help support students secure and safely complete work experience opportunities as part of their university experience? Would you enjoy managing and developing administrative processes and activities within an educational setting? If so, you could be our new Placements, Internships & Volunteering Administrator.  

This role focuses on providing a range of administrative functions within the Placements, Internships & Volunteering team, to ensure students and external organisations are provided with a high-quality customer experience and service. 

The role involves various responsibilities, including: coordinating and managing the Health & Safety and Risk Assessment operations across the team; data inputting of work experience opportunities; record keeping of student work experiences; and liaising with students, internal customers, and external placement host organisations. If you desired, you can also be involved supporting students on a one-to-one basis to prepare CVs and application forms for internships, placements, and volunteering opportunities.  

We are looking for candidates with: 

• A strong ability to pay close attention to detail and work with accuracy.
• Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to prioritise a busy workload and be systematic. 
• Excellent IT skills, particularly in MS Office and using databases.
• Flexibility, and able to work well as part of a team to provide support and contribute ideas.  
• Ability to be proactive and use initiative to solve problems creatively.  
• Ability to communicate confidently and offer support and advice in a professional manner. 

This is a full-time (37 hours per week) permanent appointment. However, applications will be considered up to 1 FTE. 

The role is eligible for agile working, meaning you could work from home for part of the week, to be arranged with your manager and after your initial training.

For an informal discussion to find out more about this role please contact Mark Eslick, Placements, Internships & Volunteering Manager, [email protected]

We welcome applications from job sharers.

Further details:

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee’s home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.