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Placement Operations Coordinator

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  • Internship
    Full-time
    Placement Program
  • Business, Operations & Strategy
  • £23.1K - £27.2K
  • Reading

Requirements

  • Excellent experience working in a busy administrative post working with a range of logistics, digital systems and processes
  • Strong communication and customer service skills, with the ability to work with a broad range of people
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to produce numerical reports
  • Strong working Knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel at an intermediate level
  • Experience of producing data reports, administering expenses and budgets
  • Strong teamworking skills with the ability to problem solve and work proactively

Responsibilities

  • The Placement Operations Coordinator role will include a wide range of duties involving the day-to-day coordination of administration for our placements with a focus on supporting our compulsory placement programmes regulated by Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies. These include allied healthcare programmes in our Pharmacy Department, School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences and Initial teacher training in our Institute of Education.
  • Your work will include the coordination of regulatory placement checks, such as Disclosure and Barring (DBS) and you will also update and maintain placement records and systems, administer student expenses and assist with reporting to regulators of our programmes which are accredited by Professional Statutory and Regulated Bodies (PSRB programmes).

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The University of Reading is one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities and ranked in the top 200 universities in the world by QS. We have a proud history. In 2016 we celebrated the 90th anniversary of being granted a Royal Charter. From our appointment of the UK’s first female professor, Edith Morley, to the social reform campaigner Lord Wolfenden being our Vice-Chancellor, we have 100,000 alumni and students at the top of their professions in academia, arts, broadcasting, business, government and sport. We have a global outlook, with 17,000 current students from 150 countries and our state-of-the-art University of Reading Malaysia campus opened in 2015. We offer 250 undergraduate and 150 postgraduate courses, with great research-led teaching, a top-class 24/7 library and 94% of our graduates in work or further study after six months. We have a 89% student satisfaction rate with a top 10-ranked Student’s Union, which runs 150 clubs and societies. We do world-leading research, across the sciences, arts and humanities, including tackling the planet’s biggest challenges – climate change; food security; poor nutrition; and disease. The national Research Excellence Framework 2014 classed 78% of our research was classed as internationally excellent and 27% world-leading – ranking us 19th in the UK for research intensity and 27th for research power. We have invested more than £400m in excellent research, teaching and student facilities in the last decade. We have three UK campuses, including our award-winning 130-hectare main Whiteknights Campus and our London Road campus, home to the Institute of Education and from September 2016, our new School of Architecture. We are home to the triple-accredited Henley Business School – one of the leading business schools in the UK and Europe.