Programme Assistant

Salary: £23,144 pro rata
FTE: 0.5 (17.5 hours/week)
Term: Fixed Term (Until 31.03.25)
Closing Date: 16/04/2024

We are the University of Strathclyde. Our vision is innovative and groundbreaking, placing us amongst the world’s leading international technological universities. We are vibrant, dynamic and passionate about solving the challenges facing society and industry through our cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research, education and knowledge-exchange with both local and global partners.

Glasgow is a vibrant city where the FinTech sector is growing at an unprecedented rate. Many large financial firms have established their product development centres in Glasgow: JP Morgan, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, Virgin Money, Tesco Bank and many more. With a highly skilled population and a growing tech start up scene, University of Strathclyde has prioritised the FinTech Cluster (one of six strategic clusters at the University of Strathclyde) as part of our plans to develop the next phase of the University’s Technology & Innovation Zone located within the Glasgow City Innovation District.

Through significant new investment from the UK Government’s Innovation Accelerator programme, a bid led by FinTech Scotland, in collaboration with the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow, has received funding to establish a Financial Regulation Innovation Lab (FRIL). FRIL, a first for the UK, builds on the FinTech Scotland Fintech Research & Innovation Roadmap, highlighting the opportunity for more research and innovation in financial regulation. This initiative aligns itself with the UK Government Science and Technology Framework published in March 2023 to put the UK at the forefront of global science and technology. This will be a unique environment bringing together FinTech entrepreneurs, large UK and global financial services firms and technology enterprises, regulators, universities and third sector bodies to drive financial innovation in addressing financial regulation opportunities and challenges.

FRIL seeks to appoint an enthusiastic individual to join the team in the role of Programme Assistant. You will have excellent organisational and administrative skills to work with FRIL Skills and Education colleagues to support the delivery of microcredential courses and smooth-running of stakeholder events. You will act as first point of contact for the FRIL skills team, supporting the day-to-day administration of short course delivery, as well as assisting in other activities essential to ensuring the delivery of excellent learning and engagement while striving for operational efficiency and effectiveness within the team. You will therefore be required to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to resolve stakeholder enquiries at a variety of organisational levels. In planning and prioritising your own workload, you will be able to act independently as well as part of a team to ensure that high service standards are met.

This role is part-time and we are happy to discuss flexible working patterns. If you wish to discuss any aspect of the role, please contact Christine Sinclair, Programme Director (christine.sinclair@strath.ac.uk; or 07581 028351).

Founded in 1948, the University of Strathclyde Business School is a pioneering, internationally renowned academic organisation that shapes and develops the business minds of tomorrow.

Strathclyde Business School is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and its subject departments and specialist units collaborate to provide a varied programme of specialist and cross-disciplinary courses. We have established international centres in Greece, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Singapore and Malaysia, where we offer degrees such as the Strathclyde MBA.

Strathclyde Business School has held triple accreditation from the three main business school accreditation bodies – AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB – since 2004 and we were the first business school in Scotland to achieve triple accreditation. We were also the first business school in Scotland to be awarded the Small Business Charter Award, which recognises our world-leading support for scaling Scottish firms through innovation, internationalisation and leadership.

Our departments and programmes also hold internationally recognised industry accreditations such as CIMA, ICAS, CMI and CIPD.

Informal enquiries about the post can be directed to Christine Sinclair, Programme Director (christine.sinclair@strath.ac.uk; 07581 028351 during working hours).

Formal interviews for this post will be held on 24/04/2024.