We are looking for a highly motivated individual to work with our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adam Tickell. Adam leads the University and is our equivalent of a Chief Executive Officer.

This is a rare and exciting opportunity to work at the heart of an ambitious, global organisation. The University provides an inspiring education to our students and undertakes important and impactful research. We are a place of open, critical thinking, and we create, share and disseminate knowledge.

This post will suit someone with outstanding interpersonal and organisational skills. The post-holder will be intellectually confident and have significant and proven experience of working as a Personal/Executive Assistant at Board level in a complex organisation. They will be able to work on a broad range of activities without direct supervision and will exercise a high level of discretion and self-motivation.

The post-holder will act as a conduit between Adam, his senior team, and internal and external stakeholders, and will approach tasks in a collaborative manner founded on real empathy with the academic endeavour of the University.

In exchange, the right candidate will join over 8,000 staff at the University, with opportunities to join staff networks such as the Rainbow Network, Parents and Carers’ Network, Women’s Network, Race Equality Network, and Enabling Staff Network. They will benefit from great holidays and a pension scheme, flexibility (the post-holder will work to a pattern of four days/week from campus), and lots of opportunities for learning and development.

This post is fixed-term to May 2024 to cover a period of parental leave.

The closing date for this position is 28 January 2024.

We welcome informal enquiries. Please contact Richard Charlton: [email protected].

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We value diversity and inclusion at the University of Birmingham and welcome applications from all sections of the community and are open to discussions around all forms of flexible working.