PA/Administrator

Grade UE05: £24,285 - £27,929 per annum

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Deanery of Clinical Sciences / Institute for Regeneration & Repair / Centre for Inflammation Research

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Open-ended

We are looking for an enthusiastic and service-focused individual to join our institute team and provide dedicated day-to-day administrative/PA support to senior academic members of the Centre for Inflammation Research. You will provide a comprehensive, organised, responsive, proactive and flexible PA service to senior academics and provide administrative assistance in the organisation of meetings with a particular focus on international and online forums.

The Opportunity:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Institute for Regeneration and Repair administrative support team as we coalesce from centre specific to institute structures. You will provide regular, complete and confidential PA service to a restricted core of 4-5 senior Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR) academics, including correspondence (email and telephone enquiries), diary management, travel arrangements and meeting coordination. The PI portfolio will include significant Global Health research and therefore coordination and scheduling of complex travel will be commonplace. You will also provide administrative support in some specific centre and institute wide areas so there is opportunity for both independent initiative driven work and larger group working within this role.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Secretarial and/or administration experience in an office environment
• Analytical and problem-solving skills and a pro-active approach to seeking out information, accuracy and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new skills, particularly digital skills i.e. web publishing tool.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and at ease when dealing with a wide range of stakeholders
• Demonstrable planning and organisation skills, including the ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines.

Please address informal enquiries to Dr Paul Fitch (p.fitch@ed.ac.uk).

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. 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.

It is anticipated that interviews will be held within 2-3 weeks of the advert closing date.

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.

The University may be able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. This will depend on a number of factors specific to the successful applicant.

About the Team:

Centre for Inflammation Research (CIR) Director (Professor David Dockrell) leverages peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research programmes and focussed collaboration, to characterise mechanisms of acute and chronic inflammation. The CIR aims to characterise what promotes health at the molecular level in order to prevent the harmful consequences of inflammation in clinical medicine.

Effort is targeted at: inhibiting the initiation of inflammation by blocking specific molecular triggers and by modulating cellular and tissue responses resulting in organ dysfunction; finding new approaches to modulate established inflammatory responses to limit tissue injury; and promoting safe resolution of inflammation to restore healthy structure and function of tissue.

A particular focus is on tissue fibrosis - the result of longstanding harmful inflammation, with programmes looking at the mechanisms underpinning resolution of fibrosis and its non-invasive monitoring and imaging.

The CIR has a broad interest in inflammatory disease in a range of tissues including in the lungs, kidney, liver, pancreas, bowel, bone, joints, skin, heart and brain. There is in-depth analysis of stimuli that induce or modify inflammation with detailed programmes considering the role of sex, development, auto-immunity, infection and other environmental influences. Importantly, the principles derived will have ready application to inflammatory and reparatory responses in virtually all physiological and pathological settings, including cancer and infection (not least COVID-19). Translation is aided by a commitment to novel diagnostic and imaging modalities and our proximity to patient groups and healthy volunteers in the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

The CIR will be located from 2023 in state-of-the-art facilities in the Institute of Regeneration and Repair. Our research aims align closely with the vision of IRR and other centres within IRR, to promote human health through in-depth understanding of tissue regeneration and repair, while developing a multi-pronged translational programme to effect therapeutic innovation in this area. IRR is located on the BioQuarter Campus, Edinburgh.