School Management Support Coordinator

Be at the centre of decision-making and help shape how our School operates.

We're looking for Expressions of Interest from organised, proactive professionals to provide dedicated support to the Executive Dean while leading our School Management Support Administration Team.

As the Executive Dean's Personal Assistant, you'll manage a busy and varied workload, ensuring priorities, correspondence, meetings and deadlines are coordinated effectively. You'll be trusted to anticipate needs, solve problems and keep things moving in a fast-paced environment.

Alongside providing high-level executive support, you'll line manage the School's management support administration team, helping to develop colleagues, coordinate workloads and ensure a consistently excellent service across the School.

What you'll do:
- Act as Personal Assistant to the Executive Dean.
- Manage complex diaries, correspondence and competing priorities.
- Organise meetings, committees and key School activities.
- Support the delivery of School operations and strategic priorities.
- Monitor deadlines and ensure actions are progressed.
- Line manage and support the School Management Support Administration Team.
- Review and improve processes, systems and ways of working.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues across the University.

We're looking for someone who:
- Is highly organised and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Communicates confidently with people at all levels.
- Takes initiative and enjoys solving problems.
- Has experience leading or coordinating a team.
- Pays attention to detail while seeing the bigger picture.
- Enjoys improving processes and finding smarter ways of working.

We'll still consider Expressions of Interest even if you don't meet every single one of the requirements. To ensure the diverse needs of our team are met we actively encourage secondments and offer flexible part-time working patterns.

About the School:
We are the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Science (ARES) at Nottingham Trent University. Our business is nature: specifically, the environment, animal health and welfare, ecology and conservation, and agriculture and food production. Our approach is innovative and inclusive. It's our goal to have a positive impact on the planet by improving the wellbeing of environments, animals, plants, and people.

Benefits:
- Hybrid working — minimum of 60% on-campus commitment for full-time roles.
- Flexibility — support for a range of working patterns and approaches.
- 28–30 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays and 5 university closure days pro rata.
- Salary Sacrifice Retirement Savings Plan with life assurance and income protection. Minimum colleague contributions of 0% matched with minimum NTU contributions of 8%.
- Range of health and wellbeing services, including a Health Cash Plan, voluntary benefits, discounts, and savings.
- Access to formal and informal professional development opportunities.
- Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Interview Date: 23rd November 2026.

Please note this role has been assessed as ineligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration points-based immigration system. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and successful applicants will be asked to declare any unspent criminal convictions.