Admissions Administrator (EHA0963-0922)

Make a difference, every day, to the lives of our students.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for an Admissions Administrator to join our Admissions Team in a key role supporting the student recruitment process across a wide range of programmes. Working in a customer-focused department, you will provide excellent administration support and customer service to prospective students, their families, and advisers.

About You

As Admissions Administrator you will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and an ability to build positive working relationships with customers and colleagues. Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office and experienced in using database systems you will support creation and update of application records and production of decision and offer communications to candidates. 

Experienced in working in a busy office environment, you will have good organisation and prioritiosation skills and the ability to work proactively without supervision. 

Rewards/Benefits

You will benefit from 22 days annual leave plus 13 bank holiday inclusive of University closure days per annum. We aim to provide our staff with a positive work life balance and have a range of schemes in place to support this. Your continued professional development is as important to us as it is to you and we demonstrate this through our investment in your CPD activity. 

You will be automatically enrolled into the Local Government Pension Scheme and have access to our staff benefits platform, which provides you with discounts across the high street to help you save money on your everyday spending such as supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more. We also offer discounted membership to our state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities.

About Us

Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

You’ll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and shortlisted for the overall UK University of the Year award. Edge Hill has also recently been awarded University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student experience and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do.

The University has judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Peter Talbot, Senior Admissions Manager at talbotp@edgehill.ac.uk. 

Internal staff wishing to apply for a fixed term role as a secondment opportunity must discuss this with their existing line manager before applying.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Closing Date: 23 Sep 2022

Department: Support

Salary: £21,197 to £22,662 per annum
Fixed Term