UE06 £29,619 - £34,308 per annum

College of Science and Engineering, School of Biological Sciences, Biology Teaching Organisation

Open ended

Full Time; 35hrs per week

We are looking for a Student Adviser

The Opportunity:

Student Advisers provide a first contact point for students within their School, providing guidance and support, including additional assistance where needed, to those navigating the University support systems. Working closely with academic and professional services teams, the role is an advocate for students, their School, and programme, ensuring parity of experience for all students.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Educated 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.
• The postholder must have knowledge of and sensitivity to the complex areas of student wellbeing and support.
• Experience of working independently and ability to prioritise workloads in the face of conflicting demands
• Excellent interpersonal skills - remaining calm under pressure, being able to provide a safe and welcoming space for students in distress
• Sound analytical and pragmatic problem-solving skills as well as being a constructive team player, demonstrating ability to work collaboratively

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support. 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.

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.