Administrator

Grade UE05: £29,588 to £33,951 per annum, pro rata
School of Population Health Sciences / Centre for Population Health Sciences
Part Time: 21 hours per week
Fixed term: from November 2026 until 31st October 2028
Location: Usher Building, Bioquarter, Edinburgh

The Opportunity:

Where discovery never stops. Be part of something bigger.  

Professional Services
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class organisation. We are a large University covering a wide range of activities. In Professional Services, we support the University’s research and teaching, offering many career and role specialisms.

The Behavioural Research UK Leadership Hub (BR-UK) Administrator will provide high level administrative, communications and general secretarial support to the BR-UK team. This will involve undertaking a range of duties including administration, financial processing, communication functions and meeting arrangements.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Sancha Martin, Sancha.martin@ed.ac.uk (Consortium Manager).

A career with us has a range of other benefits that can be tailored to your lifestyle:

Opportunities to develop new skills and broaden your experience 
Interesting work 
Good salary/pay rates
Excellent benefits and support  

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How to apply
Please include the following documents in your application:
- CV
- Cover letter

As a valued member of our team, you can expect: 
•    A competitive salary. 
•    An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. 
•    To be part of a diverse and vibrant international community.
•    Comprehensive Staff Benefits, including generous annual leave entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, a wide range of staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, and flexible work options. Check out the full list on our staff benefits page (opens in a new tab) and use our reward calculator to discover the value of your pay and benefits.

Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter, and we are also a Stonewall Proud Employer, actively promoting LGBTQ+ equality.

Prior to any employment commencing with the University, you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. They will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.   

Key dates to note

The closing date for applications is 23 October 2026.

Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm UK time. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone. 

Interview dates to be confirmed. 

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally. We draw together researchers, clinicians and practitioners from public health, primary care, biomedical and social sciences - with roots going back to the first Chair of Public Health in the UK, established in 1898.

For more information, visit the Population Health Sciences website (https://usher.ed.ac.uk/research/population-health-sciences) (opens in a new browser tab).

**School of Population Health Sciences
**Transforming health in society by working with people, populations and data.

The School of Population Health Sciences sits within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at The University of Edinburgh.

The School of Population Health Sciences is a key applied and translational arm of the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; offering significant expertise in health services research, health informatics, data science and social science.  We are also the Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Hub, part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal.

We strive for and work towards the data-enabled transformation of health.

**About the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
**The College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (CMVM) is home to six Schools which in turn host five world-leading research institutes; the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, the Usher Institute, the Institute for Regeneration and Repair, the Roslin Institute and the new Institute for Neurological and Cardiovascular Sciences. The teams in the six CMVM Schools work together to build outstanding discovery and translational research programmes designed to answer the major challenges facing humanity, animal and planetary health, now and in the future. Our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching is delivered through Edinburgh Medical School and the Royal (Dick) School of Medical Studies with contributions from all six schools.