Office Manager (maternity cover)

Vacancy Reference Number

1839610

Closing Date

1 Dec 2019

Salary

£44,674 - £52,701 per annum

Address

London

Duration

1 year

Dementia is the greatest health challenge of our century.  

The UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) is the biggest UK initiative supporting research to fill this gap. 

The UK DRI Headquarters team is based at UCL yet works across all six of the UK DRI host institutions. Collectively the HQ team is responsible for making the distributed UK DRI community function as a single institute, with a shared culture of intensely collaborative research. 

The UK DRI HQ team is now looking to recruit an Office Manager to provide maternity cover from February 2020. The Office Manager is a key member of the HQ team, responsible for managing the office administration team and the coordination of activity between the UK DRI HQ and the seven research centres. This includes providing support to cross-UK DRI projects and programmes, delivery of large-scale events, conferences and workshops, providing operational support to the UK DRI leadership, and facilitating effective cross-communication between the UK DRI’s HQ team and geographically dispersed research centres. 

The post is funded for one year. We would welcome applications from internal candidates interested in this as a secondment opportunity.    

Key Requirements

You’ll have experience of delivering a proactive and efficient administrative support function within a Higher Education (or similarly large and complex) environment and will have previously line managed a small team or supervised staff. You’ll have strong organisational and project management skills and have the ability to use relationship building and interpersonal skills to build excellent working relationships with colleagues across a range of levels and locations. An understanding of the UK DRI’s structure and mission is essential, as is a high level of professionalism, initiative and innovation. 

Further Details

A job description and full person specification can be accessed below

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Further Information

We particularly welcome female applicants and those from an ethnic minority, as they are under-represented within UCL at this level.

We will consider applications to work on a part-time, flexible and job share basis wherever possible.

Closing Date

1 Dec 2019

Latest time for the submission of applications

23:59

Interview date

18 -19 December

Our department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment and demonstrable impact in advancing gender equality.

This appointment is subject to UCL Terms and Conditions of Service for Research and Support Staff.

Contact Details

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Laura Allum (UK DRI HQ Head of HR), l.allum@ucl.ac.uk, 020 3108 8137.