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About IOE

IOE is UCL Faculty of Education and Society.

Founded in 1902, IOE has been shaping policy and helping government, organisations and individuals navigate a changing society for the last 120 years. We embrace collaboration and excellence to create a future that is inclusive and just, and have been ranked number one for education every year since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

The Social Research Institute – formerly the Department of Social Science – in the UCL Institute of Education is one of the leading centres for social research in the UK. It is home to seven internationally renowned research units:

• Centre for Longitudinal Studies


• Centre for Time Use Research


• CLOSER


• EPPI-Centre


• Quantitative Social Science


• Social Science Research Unit


• Thomas Coram Research Unit

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies is multidisciplinary research centre, and is funded by ESRC as a Resource Centre which leads four of Britain's internationally renowned cohort studies:

• 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS)


• 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)


• Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)


• Next Steps (formerly the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England)

The Centre has also recently been funded to test the feasibility of establishing a new UK birth cohort study, the Early Life Cohort Feasibility Study (funded by ESRC), and is collaborating on two further new longitudinal studies, the Children of the 2020s (funded by DfE) and the Covid Social Mobility study (COSMO) (funded by UKRI).

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Centre Administrator will be responsible for a range of administration functions across CLS. The main areas of responsibility will be HR administration and general centre administration and operational support, as well as assisting with Research Finance related tasks.

In this post you will work independently and play a key role in the coordination of the Centre, working closely with the Centre Manager and the Research Finance Administrator.

This post is available until 31st August 2025 in the first instance and it will require DBS clearance.

ABOUT YOU

You will be educated to degree standard, or equivalent, or having acquired equivalent experience and have experience of HR administration and support, recruitment process and induction of staff.

You will also have demonstrable experience of providing accurate, efficient, professional and pro-active administrative and operational support to a range of staff at various levels, with experience in setting up new systems and processes.

Your application form should address all the person specification points and should 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

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

OUR COMMITMENT TO EDI

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 Bronze award, in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality.