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YB WEB DESK. Dated: 11/23/2021 12:39:14 PM

Higher education administrator: job description

Higher education administrators undertake a wide variety of supportive, administrative, secretarial, financial and human resources tasks in universities. HE administrators work within both the central administrative (academic registrars) department and for individual faculties of universities and other higher education e stablishments. They may specialise in student recruitment, funding, quality assurance, marketing or public relations, or be responsible for budgetary/financial administration, project management or human resources management. Many work in a general capacity, undertaking tasks from all of these areas. Typical responsibilities of the job include: recruiting, training and managing staff financial/budgetary administration handling correspondence organising and servicing committee meetings (producing agendas, taking minutes etc) researching and writing reports preparing statistics liaising with external organisations formulating and implementing regulations timetabling administering and coordinating student recruitment, examinations and assessment activities The job can be busy at key points in the academic year, when some long hours may be necessary. There are good opportunities for career progression via promotion into senior administrative, managerial.