Job Description
Job Info
- Job Identification12532
- Locations 1-7 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9TA, GB(Hybrid working)
- OrganizationStudent Recruitment and Admissions Unit, Edinburgh University Group
- DepartmentSRA Directors Office
- Apply Before06/21/2025, 04:29 AM
- Health and Safety RequirementsNo key hazards identified for this post
- Criminal Record CheckProtecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check required
- Contract TypeFixed Term
- Work Duration Months12
- Job SchedulePart time
- GradeUE05
- Number of Openings1
- Job FunctionAdministration
Job Description
Grade UE05: £29,179 – £33,482 per annum pro-rata
USG/Student Recruitment and Admissions
Part-time: 17.5 hours per week
Fixed-term: 18 August 2025 – 31 July 2026
The Opportunity
The Project Support Officer (AHDP) role will contribute to the administration, organisation and delivery of the Access to High Demand Professions (AHDP) project, within the University’s Widening Participation team.
The Project Support Officer will provide key administrative, organisational and event delivery support to Access to Creative Education Scotland (ACES) Edinburgh and Reach Edinburgh projects. The post holder will facilitate events, including the Portfolio Preparation programme on Fridays.
The role will occasionally support wider team and departmental outreach and recruitment activities.
This role is designed to enable those with an interest in Widening Participation to develop valuable skills and experience within a busy and creative team supporting school pupils from the most underrepresented backgrounds to progress into Higher Education.
We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and wish to particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black and ethnic minority backgrounds as well as backgrounds that the AHDP projects support.
Your skills and attributes for success
- You have an understanding of, and empathy for, the student groups targeted within Widening Participation programmes.
- You are a team player who strives to support colleagues as well as external audiences.
- Very good written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent IT skills and working knowledge of MS Office packages.
The successful candidate will support the ACES Portfolio Preparation Programme and work on most Fridays 13:00-17:30 between 06/09/2025 to 24/01/2026.
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As a valued member of our team, you can expect:
- To gain fantastic experience working with young people and supporting events.
- An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work.
- To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
- Comprehensive Staff Benefits, such as a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the total value of your pay and benefits.
Championing equality, diversity and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University, a Disclosure Scotland PVG check needs to be completed. Further information is available on our PVG Check webpages (opens new browser tab).
Key dates to note
The closing date for applications is Friday 20 June 2025.
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held in-person on Monday 30 June 2025.
For queries about the role, please email stef.blum@ed.ac.uk
About Us
As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.
About the Team
Student Recruitment and Admissions (SRA) leads the design, development and implementation of the University of Edinburgh’s strategy for student recruitment, admissions, and widening participation. SRA is one of a number of key services within the University Secretary’s Group (USG). We contribute to two core University strategies: the Student Recruitment Strategy and the Widening Participation Strategy.
We support the implementation of these strategies in two ways:
- Our teams deliver a range of core, University-wide activities;
- We lead and co-ordinate the delivery of aspects of the strategies where there is shared responsibility with Schools, Colleges and Support Group services.
Our departmental values are:
- Professional: we are experts and skilled practitioners: adept communicators, analysts and strategic thinkers.
- Collaborative: we work in partnership with colleagues within and beyond the University, forming valuable networks and teams.
- Constructive: we are helpful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy.
- Creative: we are innovative, inspiring, proactive and flexible.
