Position Details
Campus Services
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £25,866 to £27,518, with potential progression once in post to £30,820
Grade: 4
Part Time (24 hours per week), Permanent
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Background
The Nursery Administrator is a 24 hours per week role, working over 5 days a week alongside the Management team at The Oaks Day Nursery. The Oaks is based in leafy Selly Oak and is part of the University of Birmingham not far from both Bournville and Northfield. In the future there may be the possibility of the hours increasing to a fulltime role for the suitable candidate.
You will receive a generous package of benefits including:
40 days paid holiday a year for a full-time position
1 paid day a year for volunteering
2 paid staff training days
Occupational sick pay
Discounted gym membership at the new sports centre
Recognition scheme
Staff discount on childcare
Ongoing training and development opportunities
Role Summary
To provide proactive administrative support in the relevant department, working as part of a team or on own initiative. You will have the ability to manage your work without needing to refer to others for most of your time. In order to flexibly use resource, you may be given the opportunity to work in different areas of the department or wider University.
Administrators may work in any area of the University; with large groupings in HR, Finance, and School/College Hubs.
You will be able to develop a wide range of skills, both technical and administrative, and may also have the opportunity to lead on specific tasks within a team.
Main Duties
You will act as a point of contact to provide accurate and timely information and advice to internal and external customers and stakeholders on University processes and procedures, answering queries promptly, providing guidance and resolving queries from initial contact to resolution. This will include recognising when queries need to be referred elsewhere.
Regularly communicate relevant information to parents, staff and external contacts.
Provide administrative support for diary or event planning.
Process data (which may be financial, HR, student-related or other), monitoring accuracy, chasing up missing information, and escalating any issues as appropriate.
Use a variety of complex University systems and processes to manipulate, analyse and interpret sets of data, and produce routine reports.
Maintain working relationship with key stakeholders, fielding queries, receiving and dealing with any disputes or complaints and resolving promptly.
Offer advice and support to others on area of activity.
Review processes and tasks and proactively offer suggestions for improvement and sharing best practice as appropriate.
As required, provide a professional secretarial service to relevant meetings.
Supports equality and values diversity, moderating own behaviour to avoid unfair discriminatory impact or bias on others.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Evidence of the skills and ability to undertake the role.
GCSEs to a minimum of grade C/4 in English and Mathematics grade C minimum (or equivalent level 2 qualification).
Good IT skills with working knowledge of standard Microsoft Office software/Teams/Excel spreadsheets and experience with OneDrive preferred.
Ability to take responsibility for specific tasks, carrying out duties without needing to refer to others, with scope for some choice and using your own judgment.
Ability to work on your own initiative.
Ability to proactively contribute to improving processes and for proposing new ways of working.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with others.
Well organised with the ability to prioritise work proactively, independently and as part of a team.
A good understanding of how to deliver excellent customer service.
Experience of using and maintaining complex work systems e.g. nursery database/finance record systems/HR systems or equivalent, and an aptitude for learning new IT packages and systems.
The ability to cope with change in a fast moving, dynamic environment where change is often required immediately.
An understanding of the importance of equality and diversity in the workplace.
The ability to identify and respond to equality and diversity issues in line with relevant policies and procedures and how to respond to issues in line with relevant policies and procedures.