Job Description

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) has an international reputation for being an exceptional research-led management school, recruiting world-class academic faculty and outstanding students from all over the world on undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience programmes.

We are seeking someone with attention to detail who is a team player to support our work in our Undergraduate Summer examination period. The successful candidate will join a well established and highly successful team in ensuring the academic integrity of our processes and providing vital administrative skills at a peak time of the academic cycle.

We are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis, as well as the Athena Swan Charter, which recognises and celebrates good employment practice undertaken to address gender equality in higher education. We are committed to enhancing the diversity of our workforce and ensuring our culture is inclusive and welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.

Pay Rate: £11.66 per hour plus £1.41 holiday pay

Preferred start date: From 15th May 2023

Expected end date: 4th August 2023

Interview date: From 11th May 2023

Location: It is expected that the majority of the role will be delivered on campus.

Hours per week: Part time and full time hours available

Please note this is a non-student role.

Please outline the hours that you will be available to work on your cover letter.

Job Description

Duties will include, but may not be limited to:

• Dealing with face-to-face and online enquiries relating to the assessment period.Typically, these will be students and academic or administrative members of staff.
• Checking exam scripts and ensuring that the marking process is carried out in a fair and rigorous manner.
• Assisting with the setting up of arrangements for non- standard exam settings.
• Transporting exam scripts from venue to the department.
• Archiving of exams and coursework scripts
• Scanning of exam scripts to send to external examiners

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Excellent attention to detail
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• An ability to work as part of a team
• An ability to work well under pressure
• Good numerical ability

You are required to submit a cover letter to support your application. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

Please note: Unless specified otherwise in the advert wording, this role is only open to individuals living in the UK.

Under the terms of this work, we endeavour to provide the advertised number of hours however, hours are not guaranteed and that work may cease if there is a fall in demand.

Adverts that display a closing date should be treated as a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary contract
Contract length: 12 weeks
Part-time hours: 20 - 37.5 per week

Salary: £11.66 per hour

Benefits:

• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person

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