The University of Edinburgh

Teaching Administrator

Company
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/22/2025
Description
Job Description

Grade UE05 £29,588 - £33,951 per annum

CAHSS / School of Economics

Fixed Term Contract: 12 months

Full Time: 35 hours per week

The School of Economics is seeking to recruit a full time, fixed term Teaching Administrator.

The Opportunity

The University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics is seeking to appoint an outstanding candidate as a Teaching Administrator to the school. The successful candidate will show a high degree of cultural sensitivity and have a strong track record in customer service delivery. They will take the lead in day-to-day administration for a cross-section of Undergraduate & Postgraduate level courses. The ideal candidate will handle complex information accurately and provide proactive and comprehensive guidance relating to administrative procedures and policies.

We are recruiting to an ideal start of around September - October 2025.

The role shall be based within 30 Buccleuch Place (Central Campus) with opportunities for discussion on informal hybrid workplace arrangements available at the time of offer.

Key Skills And Experience

  • Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Office particularly Excel as the role entails significant use of complex spreadsheets. An Excel test will be given at interview.
  • High levels of accuracy and attention to detail in both written and figure work.
  • Ability to plan and prioritise, work independently and also as part of a team
  • Strong organisational skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

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Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about this opportunity.

Application Information

We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of two referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until after an offer has been made).

As a valued member of our team, you can expect: 

  • A competitive salary of £29,588 - £33,951 per annum
  • 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 advancing 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. 

Key Dates To Note

The closing date for applications is 5 September 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 are expected to be held in September 2025; we endeavor to give successful candidates 2 weeks’ notice ahead of interviews.

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

Edinburgh has long been associated with economics. In the eighteenth-century, Adam Smith lived and worked in the city. His first lectures to young lawyers in 1748–51 were delivered near where the South Bridge now stands. In his later years, he continued to revise his principal books The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations, and a substantial portion of Smith’s personal library is held by Edinburgh University Library. His friend David Hume, a resident of Edinburgh, noted in his day as a historian and now as a leading empiricist philosopher, wrote much acclaimed essays on economics.

Today, the School of Economics includes 56 academic staff and team of 29 administrative and technical support staff, as well as visiting Professors and other associates. The academic staff include eleven professors, six senior lecturers, three senior teaching fellows, fourteen lecturers, one reader, and one teaching fellow.

The School is characterised by its cohesiveness and informal research-led collegiality, with high quality research seminars and workshop programmes running on a weekly basis. The School has special research strength in economic theory, labour economics and applied econometrics in addition to an array of more dispersed expertise. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014), the School of Economics was placed 1st in Scotland and 8th in the UK by overall rating. In terms of the proportion of publications that are classified as world-leading, the School is ranked 1st in Scotland and 7th in the UK. Ranked by research environment (which includes PhD completions and grant income), the School is 1st in Scotland and 6th in the UK.

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