0.4 FTE Research Assistant - REQ 10594

1. To support the Supervisor to achieve the day-to-day tasks, by understanding individual and team tasks, working to deliver an effective and efficient service and supporting colleagues to ensure that all tasks and services are supported therefore contributing to individual and team metrics/KPIs.  
2. To establish and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders, providing advice, information, signposting and sharing specialist knowledge with all team colleagues relating the school portfolio that they have been allocated in that academic year. Supporting different portfolios as needed, which will allocated by the Supervisor and/or Coordinator using a data led approach and rotated yearly as appropriate.  
3. To play an active role in ensuring that the team provide excellent customer service, ensuring they are contributing to the continual enhancement of services offered by highlight processes, procedures or policies that are not easily administrable, identifying any barriers and possible solutions.     
4. Responding to enquiries in a timely, calm, sensitive and informative manner through the variety of platforms available to students, providing advice and information relating to extenuating circumstances and attendance monitoring, making sure the information provided is accurate and escalating complex queries or concerns with the Student Engagement Supervisor / Coordinator.  
5. Supporting the attendance monitoring process by completing weekly reviews, identifying students not meeting the attendance/engagement thresholds, sending out emails/appointments as per the policy, making calls, managing a case load of students, writing up all actions in the CRM, making appointments with appropriate members of academic staff (in line with the policy) to complete attendance review panels, recording this information and completing all follow up work.  
6. Working collaboratively with Schools to support students ?at risk? of non-continuation by providing timely and effective interventions to re-engage the student with their studies, adopting a mentoring and coaching approach to support the students to achieve their full potential.  
7. Completion of interruption and withdrawal procedures as a result of continued poor engagement, making sure to liaise with appropriate key stakeholders and providing weekly/monthly reports on student engagement and non-continuation (withdrawals and interruptions).  
8. Working on a continual basis to review and support the extenuating circumstances process, ensuring the queries are responded to, decisions made, and communicated, complex cases are resolved, all decisions are appropriately recorded, with all stakeholders informed, providing reports relating to the volume of queries and completion of tasks in line with SLAs.  
9. Responsible for delivering ad hoc activities that contribute to continuation, progression, and successful student outcomes across the University.   

This list is not exhaustive. The post holder will be expected to carry out relevant and related tasks as commensurate with the current grade and agreed with the Head of Student Administration or their nominee.  

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Person specification / Selection criteria 

1. Practical administration experience working in a higher education setting, supporting and resolving students/customer concerns both face to face and online.   
2. Experience of supporting and resolving students concerns both face to face and online with an experience of and/or understanding the current issues facing students including the barriers and challenges to engagement.  
3. Experience of managing a student caseload using data to target support providing mentoring and coaching support.  
4. Experience of maintaining accurate records, the use the IT systems/software to input, store and where appropriate gather data.  
5. To be able to use own initiative to plan, prioritise and organise own varied workload, in a timely manner, to approach challenges/problems in a creative and proactive way.  
6. To operate flexibly either as part of a team or independently.  
7. Excellent organisational and administrative skills and to cope with high volumes of work and work as a team during stressful periods in the academic year in a calm and efficient manner.  
8. Good customer service/relationship skills, dealing sensitively with enquiries from a diverse range of individuals, and de-escalate and manage potentially difficult or conflict situations calmly and with confidence.  
9. Experience of servicing committee meetings, both in preparation and minute taking, and following up matters raised in meetings.  
10. To be committed to and have experience of the application of ICT in administration. Knowledge of word processing, databases and spreadsheets and of the use of the web. Willingness and ability to learn new packages in order to carry out the duties of the role.  

An ideal role for someone looking to gain more experience in the work place within one of QMUL's departments for the first 2 terms.

The role will assist with coordinating and scheduling qNomics activities.

You will develop your admin skills along with communication and organisation skills. 

Good previous education with strong English and Maths

Ideal for a current QM student or recent graduate

Highly accurate admin skills.

Strong customer service and communication skills.

Good organisational skills.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage a virtual placements software platform, with the support of the platform's administrators.
• Support students in accessing and utilising the virtual placements software platform.
• Liaise with organisations who wish to advertise placement vacancies and inform students of vacancies.
• Build and maintain beneficial relationships with local organisations and University departments to support any placement students undertaking work.
• Create attractive advertisements to promote vacancies.
• Manage aspects of administration within WebLearn, (Virtual Learning Environment) for a variety of placements modules.
• Create and update databases and software platform with accurate information.
• Liaise with relevant academic placement module teams to target students on specific modules and encourage them to apply for the available work opportunities.
• Attending classes to undertake very brief presentations on the work placements process.
• Provide initial recruitment support via online Careers materials to assist students through job recruitment processes and identify when to signpost applicants to advice and guidance from University Careers Consultants.
• Assist in matching students to suitable placement opportunities.
• Assist in undertaking risk assessments for work placement health and safety.
• Assist in organising events such as 'LinkedIn Headshot' photoshoots, including greeting students, recording student details, potentially assisting in taking photographs and sending out photographs to students.
• Any other tasks to support the placement team.

NOTE: In terms of your graduation date, you must have submitted your final assessment within 2024 e.g. February or June.

Closing Date:  Wednesday 25th Sept at 5pm

Before you proceed with your application, we would like to outline specific eligibility criteria that must be met to be considered for this role:

Eligibility to Work Full-Time in the UK: We welcome applications exclusively from candidates who hold the legal authorisation to work full-time in the United Kingdom for at least the next 10 months. Regrettably, we are unable to sponsor work visas or consider candidates whose current visa status does not permit full-time employment for the specified duration.

You must be a recent Graduate of London Met: Your final piece of assessment for your degree must have been submitted within 2024. Applications from candidates who graduated before this date will not be considered for the position.

We kindly request all prospective applicants to carefully review and confirm that they meet these essential eligibility requirements before submitting their applications. 

In addition to clicking Apply Now, please ensure that you send your comprehensive CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the role to Tahera at t.huda@londonmet.ac.uk.

Please note that the role entails a hybrid work arrangement. The successful candidate is expected to be present in the office once or twice and sometimes several times a week, and to work remotely for the rest of the week.

A formal probationary assessment will be conducted at the three-month mark to review the performance in the role. 

We appreciate your attention to these requirements and encourage you to apply if you fulfill the stated criteria.

No Qualifications required for this role.

• Experience of confidently communicating with clients/customers
• Office administration experience
• Excellent research skills via internet / social media
• Excellent communications skills, verbal and written 
• Accurate data entry / IT skills and attention to detail 
• Proven ability to meet targets within deadlines
• Demonstration of initiative and self-motivation to work alone and within a team
• Awareness of data confidentiality

TO APPLY: Please ensure your CV is uploaded onto your Met Temps profile under "My Documents" and submit a short cover letter or email outlining why you are suitable for the role.