Learning & Development Administrator
Are you an experienced, proactive, and efficient administrator looking for an exciting new challenge? We have an opportunity for you to join our team and play a key role in supporting learning and development at the University of Cambridge.
About Learning and Development (L&D):
Our L&D team is dedicated to supporting excellence in learning, teaching, and research at the University of Cambridge.
We provide professional, vocational, and leadership development for over 13,000 university staff, aligning with the University's wider mission and strategy.
The role:
As a member of the Administration Team, you will:
- Have responsibility for carrying out the efficient administration of a range of training courses.
- Provide support for specialist programmes or projects.
- Carry out other administrative tasks.
About you:
We are looking for someone who brings:
- Wide-ranging experience of administration.
- An ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- An ability to provide high level of customer service to staff, students, external trainers and other contacts.
- Excellent communication, organisation and interpersonal skills, as well as a flexible approach to work.
- The ability to plan, prioritise and organise your own workload.
- The ability to develop good working relationships with key stakeholders and colleagues.
- Experience of using Microsoft Office, in particular Outlook, Excel and Word, to an intermediate level.
- Experience of working with IT systems and an ability to quickly understand and use new systems.
- A pro-active approach to your work, including problem solving.
- An ability to use your initiative to make decisions and suggest improvements as necessary.
- Attention to detail, a high level of accuracy.
- Effective time management skills.
Further information about the role and its responsibilities is available via the link below.
Benefits of working at Cambridge include:
- Competitive rates of pay with automatic service related pay progression and annual cost of living increases;
- Generous annual leave allowance of 36 days paid leave (including bank holidays)
- Flexible and hybrid working opportunities;
- Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries and salary exchange schemes for childcare);
- An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution;
- Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores;
- Schemes to support with relocation/the provision of accommodation
The University of Cambridge is committed to supporting our staff to thrive both professionally and personally. We aim to support a good work/life balance, whilst retaining the positive aspects of our unique in-person environment and culture. Elements of this role are suitable for hybrid working, where staff can split their time between in-person collaboration and remote working. The frequency of the remote elements of the role can be discussed with the recruiting manager.
Once an offer of employment has been accepted, the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic disclosure (criminal records check) check, a health assessment and a security check.
Click the 'Apply' button below to register an account with our recruitment system (if you have not already) and apply online.
Informal enquiries are encouraged and should be directed to: ppdadminteamlead@admin.cam.ac.uk.
If you have any queries regarding the application process please email: hrdivisionaladmin@admin.cam.ac.uk
Closing date for applications: Sunday 15th June 2025
Interview Date: Wednesday 2nd July 2025
Please quote reference AH46109 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.