About us

Founded in 1902, UCL Institute of Education has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years.

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) is a department of IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. It is committed to excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the areas of: Media and Cultural Studies, Art, Design and Museology; Academic writing; English education: Applied Linguistics; Music Education; Multimodality studies; Learning with Digital Technologies.

The Academic Writing Centre (AWC) provides support for UCL Institute of Education (IOE) students in the form of workshops and short courses (face to face and online), one-to-one tutorials (face to face, and online), online discussion forums, and online resources. Sessions and resources are specifically designed to support postgraduate Academic Writing in Education studies.

The centre supports both home and international students, and also offers pre-sessional support to students who have yet to commence their study at the Institute.

About the role

We are looking to recruit an experienced and proactive professional to the Administrator and e-learning support role, within the AWC.

You will be expected to deliver a high quality service to students, colleagues and partners working in collaboration with academic and professional colleagues across all UCL IOE departments, with a particular focus on e-learning.

About you

You will be pro-active in your work and demonstrate flexibility in working with a number of individuals and as part of a team. In addition, you will have experience of working in a busy office environment, with excellent administration skills, ideally within a Higher Education Institution.

Your application form should address all Person Specification points and clearly demonstrate how your skills and experience meet each of the criteria. It is important that the criteria are clearly numbered and that you provide a response to each one.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

41 Days holiday: 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days (pro rata for part time staff)

Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme (pro-rata for part-time staff)

Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)

Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

Immigration loan

Relocation scheme for certain posts

On-site nursery

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay

Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

Our faculty holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.