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University of Edinburgh Hiring for Student Adviser Job at Edinburgh, Scotland , UK Full Time
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UE06 £29,619 – £34,308 per annum
College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences /Moray House School of Education and Sport/Student Support Office
Open ended, 35 hours per week
1 post
The University has an exciting opportunity for a Student Adviser to join the Student Support Office within Moray House School of Education and Sport. You will join a team of five Student Advisers who are delivering support services to our undergraduate and postgraduate taught student community therefore you should be able to work independently and as part of a team. Applicants should submit three documents: a CV, a brief covering letter and a personal statement. The personal statement should detail how you meet each of the essential criteria as outlined in the ‘Knowledge, Skills and Experience’ section of the job description. It is suggested that this is structured a series of headings listing each criteria accompanied by a short paragraph for each, providing examples of where your skills and experience meet each of these competencies.
The Opportunity:
The Student Adviser provides a first contact point for a defined cohort of students within the School, providing guidance and support, including additional assistance where needed, to those navigating the University support systems.
Your skills and attributes for success:
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HNC/HND or equivalent level qualifications plus previous relevant work experience, or broad experience, acquired through a combination of job related training and considerable on-the-job experience, demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding relevant work/roles.
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Knowledge of and sensitivity to the complex areas of student wellbeing and support
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Constructive team player, demonstrating ability to work collaboratively
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Strong commitment to equality and inclusion
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Ability to understand the need for boundary setting when working with students
Click here to view a copy of the full job description.
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
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.
Interviews will be held mid September 2022 .
If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages.
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
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.
Moray House School of Education has been making a major contribution and impact to the field of education both in Scotland and worldwide for almost 200 years. In that time, our staff, students and alumni have influenced, improved and transformed learning and teaching and wider educational policy in the UK and beyond. Today, we continue to conduct research across all aspects of education and learning – from pre-school to higher education and lifelong learning. Our alumni include world-famous novelist J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, and Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete, cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE.
Moray House School of Education is the leading School of Education in Scotland – we are ranked first for both educational research and sport and exercise research, according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. The REF also places us in the top five in the UK for educational research and top 10 in the UK for sport and exercise research, confirming our reputation as a UK centre of excellence in these fields.
The School’s five research clusters: Equality, social justice and inclusion; Pedagogy, learning and curriculum; Language, culture and communication; Digital education; Sport, physical education and health science supplement the work of research centres and groups and are aimed at fostering emergent areas of research excellence. We provide an outstanding learning and research environment, where students learn to become future leaders able to meet the diverse opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Above all, we focus on quality, whether it is in teaching, research or ensuring our students have the best student experience possible.
