The Sheffield School of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture are seeking to appoint a full-time clerical assistant to provide support in enquiries handling and Learning and Teaching support. The role will be based in the Department of Landscape Architecture and the School of Architecture and involves answering queries from visitors to the departments’ joint reception, responding to email enquiries and general clerical duties. In addition, the postholder will provide support for learning and teaching activities, including the collection and logging of coursework from students and attendance monitoring using the University’s bespoke systems. A key part of the role will be to provide support to set up spaces and resources for teaching and other purposes in the departments’ studio spaces, which entails some manual handling.

The successful candidate will have a good standard of education and have previous experience of working as part of a team in an office environment, ideally in a customer facing role. Key attributes will include excellent organisational skills, experience of using a range of IT systems and good communication skills. Experience of organising physical resources would be an advantage.

The postholder will join a large team of professional services colleagues working across both departments to support the delivery of the student experience, research and other core activities of academic disciplines. The postholder will also be expected to fully engage with other professional services colleagues across the Faculty of Social Sciences to ensure the delivery of first-rate support to staff and students.
This post is fixed term

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