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University of Edinburgh Hiring for Student Development Officer Job at Edinburgh, Scotland , UK Full Time
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UE06 £28,756 – £33,309 per annum
Student Development Office, School of Social and Political Science, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Full-Time; 35 Hours per Week
Open-Ended
2 posts available
We are looking for two Student Development Officers to lead the delivery of skills development and community building opportunities for students in the School of Social and Political Science (SPS).
The Opportunity:
Working with the Student Development Manager and relevant academic colleagues/students, you will deliver tailored professional and academic skills workshops, subject-specific development activities and awards, as well as practical learning opportunities to bolster employability and augment the student experience. There are two UE06 posts available. The posts will each provide line management to either one or two Student Development Office (SDO) staff.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Either a HNC/HND or equivalent qualifications plus typically a minimum of 3 years’ relevant work experience, or Broad experience, acquired through combination of job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience.
- Experience of Higher Education.
- Experience delivering tailored workshops or training to a wide range of groups.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of colleagues and external stakeholders, including senior colleagues.
- The Ability to work without intensive supervision, using initiative and decision-making skills, as well as working as part of a team.
Click to view a copy of the full job description .
As part of your application, please submit a CV and covering letter that addresses your suitability for the role.
Informal questions about this post can be directed to the Hiring Manger, Lucie Stokes, Student Development Manager, via email at [email protected] .
As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. 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. Click to 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 2 – 3 weeks after the advert closes.
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 .
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.
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.
The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) is one of the largest and most successful schools of social science in the UK, with global reach and local and global impact. Our goals are to promote excellence in education, research and innovation. The School comprises six Subject Areas plus a number of research and teaching centres and institutes, and a number of cross-Subject consortia and other units. The academic staff complement currently numbers c.200fte. Our staff profile is multi-disciplinary across the key social sciences with a strong and growing international orientation. The School has c. 1,100 undergraduate students on its programmes of study, over 500 taught postgraduates, and over 300 doctoral researchers.
The School’s primary aim is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding of social science. We provide an outstanding educational environment and support the highest quality research. We deliver excellence in discipline-based and interdisciplinary programmes. In addition, as a School, we play a leading role in delivering learning opportunities for students across the University to engage with current global challenges and uncertainties and in equipping students with the social science tools and lenses they need to become active, responsible and critical global citizens and leaders. Building upon established strengths in the cross-subject areas of sustainable development, international development, quantitative methods, and global health the School is centrally involved in the University’s Global Development Academy and Global Justice Academy, and contributes to the Global Academies of Health and of Environment and Society.
In REF 2014, the School returned 96% of its eligible staff from Professors to early career researchers; a strategy that combined excellence with inclusion. All four Units of Assessment to which SPS contributed were rated amongst the top eight in the UK, and number one in Scotland, for their breadth and quality of research. Overall 36% of our research activity was classified as world leading with a further 41% assessed as internationally excellent. For two of those four Units of Assessment – Politics and International Relations, and Social Policy and Social Work – the whole of the research environment achieved the highest possible rating and was judged to be world leading.
For further information about our school please visit http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/
