Department: Estates & Facilities - ResidencesSalary: £26,494 - £30,685 per annum (Grade 2)Reference: 1960Location: Mile EndDate posted: 19 April 2024Closing date: 12 May 2024
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About Role
We are seeking a receptionist to join our team at Residences Reception, located at the heart of our student village on the Mile End Campus. The Residences Reception operates round the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This role involves working a fixed pattern of 2 days across a 7-day week. Reporting to the Residences Reception Supervisor, you will be an integral part of the Residential Services Team, providing assistance to the 3000 residents living across 4 sites. As the primary point of contact for students residing on campus, as well as guests and visitors, you will play a crucial role in ensuring their needs are met promptly and professionally.
The position is based at the Mile End Campus in London and offers part-time employment, consisting of 14 hours per week, on a permanent basis. The starting salary for this role will be £27,979 per annum (pro-rata), inclusive of the London Allowance.
We provide competitive salaries along with access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days leave per annum (pro-rata) and many other benefits.
About You
The successful candidate will ideally have previous experience of reception work and of working in a student residential setting. Whilst the working pattern is fixed, there are times when the post holder will need to be flexible with hours to cover busy periods such as move in weekend and open days plus the summer period when rooms are let out to conference guests.
About the Directorate
The Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary, University of London and is committed to supporting and promoting student wellbeing at the College, and providing the highest standards of estates and facilities across the university, preparing and helping to sustain the University’s working and learning environmental for students, staff, stakeholders, and guests by ensuring safe environments, security and cleanliness.
Details about the Estates and Facilities Directorate can be found at http://www.estates.qmul.ac.uk/
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.