Courses Administrator - Postgraduate (Temporary Cover) (Part Time)

The Faculty of Music is seeking a part-time Courses Administrator (0.8FTE) to work collaboratively across our teaching programme, maintaining a particular focus and expertise on our postgraduate (PhD and MPhil) courses.  You will provide administrative and clerical support to the key academic officers in the Faculty (in particular the Director of Postgraduate Education and the Academic Secretary to the Degree Committee) and will help to coordinate teaching and assessment for all programmes, coordinating application processes and acting as the first point of contact for the Faculty's postgraduate students. You will also have the opportunity to support composition-focussed events and projects for with our students. At the heart of a vast network of musical study, research and practice, the Faculty of Music is made up of 20 academic and research staff, 20 affiliated lecturers and 16 support staff who work with around 200 undergraduates and 75 graduate students. As a world-leading centre of research the Faculty includes specialists in medieval and renaissance music, early modern music, nineteenth-century music, opera, popular music, ethnomusicology, performance studies, composition, and scientific approaches to music. The Faculty hosts the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies (CMPS) and the Centre for Music and Science (CMS). The Faculty facilities include a fully professional concert hall, a music library, a purpose-built studio and music computing facilities, as well as an impressive collection of historical instruments and a Javanese gamelan. The successful candidate will be a proactive problem-solver with excellent organisational and communication skills and relevant experience in an administrative role. Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University. Temporary cover: This post is fixed-term until November 2024 or the return of the post holder, whichever is the earlier. Further information about the Faculty of Music is available from www.mus.cam.ac.uk/. To apply online for this vacancy and to view further information about the role, please click on the 'Apply' button above. The closing date for applications is midnight GMT, on Tuesday 23rd January 2024. Interviews for this post are due to be held on Wednesday 31st January 2024, subject to confirmation and change. Informal enquiries are welcomed and should be directed to The Faculty Manager, Faculty of Music at facultymanager@mus.cam.ac.uk. If you have any queries regarding the application process please contact the School HR Team at MusicHR@admin.cam.ac.uk. Please quote reference GT40002 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.