Faculty Administrator

Job description

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Salary: £28,117 - £28,794 per annum

Hours per week: 37

Working pattern: Monday - Thursday 7.5 hours, Friday 7 hours

Location: Abingdon Campus

Contract type: Permanent

Weeks per annum: 52

Oxfordshire Adult Learning (OAL), part of Abingdon & Witney College, is a large and award-winning faculty dedicated to widening participation and improving the health, social and economic wellbeing of adults across Oxfordshire. We offer a diverse range of courses, from GCSEs and Functional Skills to ESOL, Community Learning and leisure courses, delivered across multiple campuses and community venues.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a proactive and organised Faculty Administrator to join our team. You will play a key role in supporting the day-to-day operations of the faculty, providing high-quality administrative support to staff and delivering excellent customer service to learners throughout their journey with us.

What You'll Do

• Provide administrative support to faculty managers and teaching staff.
• Support learners through the admissions, enrolment and enquiry processes.
• Monitor and respond to email, telephone and other communications.
• Liaise with college teams including MIS and Finance to support faculty operations.
• Work flexibly to meet business needs and support wider faculty activities.

About You

You will be an organised and adaptable team player with a customer-focused approach and the ability to manage a varied workload effectively.

• Excellent communication, literacy, numeracy and IT skills.
• Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of providing excellent customer service and working collaboratively.

Why Work with Us?

Excellent benefits for our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College 's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.