Jobs at University of Birmingham

Supports research project delivery across the Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute, including project planning, milestone and risk tracking, data collection, reporting, stakeholder engagement, budget monitoring, recruitment, and grant administration. The role also coordinates events, communications, employment contracts, and institute activities; manages one part-time administrator; and provides guidance to staff and students. It requires initiative, analytical ability, strong IT skills, and effective collaboration with academic, external, and public stakeholders.

Provides administrative support for teaching and learning activities in the School of Engineering, including admissions, induction, timetabling, attendance, examinations, progression, placements and graduation. Acts as a first point of contact for students, staff and external providers, resolves or escalates queries, produces routine reports, supports events and committees, and contributes to programme reviews and process improvements.

Leads a professional services team delivering administrative support for teaching, learning, and research activities. Oversees academic-cycle administration, regulatory compliance, quality audits, reporting, process improvement, and student experience initiatives. Manages recruitment, performance, development, workload planning, and service delivery standards. Collaborates with academic leaders and professional services colleagues, supports education-related projects, resolves operational issues, and contributes to institutional committees and working groups.

Leads education support teams and oversees teaching and learning administration, regulatory compliance, reporting, quality control, process improvement, student experience, and staff recruitment and development. The role coordinates academic and professional services stakeholders, manages education-related projects, resolves operational issues, and ensures effective service delivery across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Supports student recruitment marketing campaigns across digital, social, CRM, website, and offline channels. Produces copy and marketing collateral, coordinates internal and external contributors, supports student content teams, monitors campaign performance, conducts market research, analyzes metrics, prepares reports, and provides administrative support. The role also handles enquiries, promotes the University brand, supports recruitment events, and may require occasional evening, weekend, and travel commitments.

Owns and leads the University's Finance systems, overseeing Oracle or SAP functionality, enhancements, configuration, releases, integrations, data integrity, testing, documentation, and support. The role develops functional roadmaps, improves finance processes, manages defects and service levels, advises stakeholders, and coordinates with managed service providers. It also manages a small team, provides training and knowledge transfer, supports governance, and deputises for the Head of Core Systems Optimisation.

Provides post-award financial administration for externally funded research grants, including budget monitoring, claims, reporting, forecasting, project closure, KPI tracking, and audit preparation. The role supports academic colleagues, ensures compliance with funder requirements, resolves financial issues, liaises with funders, builds stakeholder relationships, and contributes to process improvement and consistent service delivery across the research grants portfolio.

Manage the Energy Demand Research Centre across 14 universities and external partners. Responsibilities include project and research programme coordination, strategic planning, budget and Flexible Fund management, stakeholder engagement, reporting, evaluation, risk management, communications, and line management. The role requires delivering complex projects on time and within budget while supporting the Centre’s strategic vision, monitoring outcomes, maintaining data quality, and promoting equality, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Provides administrative support for university work experience programmes, including internships, volunteering and work-based learning. Responsibilities include responding to student, employer and colleague queries; communicating through Verint; supporting events, diaries and programme delivery; processing and analysing data; producing reports; maintaining records; supporting meetings; and suggesting process improvements. The role also involves stakeholder relationship management, customer service, and resolving queries or complaints.

Leads the College of Medicine and Health research support team, overseeing pre-award support, research development, proposal drafting, budgeting, compliance, due diligence, grant setup, and contract negotiation. The role manages approximately 25 professionals, develops research-support processes, monitors performance, leads strategic partnerships, supports complex agreements, and promotes staff development, equality, and continuous service improvement across the University.