Academic Registry
Location:
Brighton - Falmer
Salary:
£27,319 to £30,378 per annum
Closing Date:
Sunday 23 November 2025
Interview Date:
Friday 05 December 2025
Reference:
AS
We are seeking to recruit a full-time Admissions Administrator to join our vital admissions department within Academic Services.
Bring your experience of customer facing administration to work in our busy admissions service where you will provide effective admissions support to applicants, academic schools and other important stakeholders. This is a highly responsible role where you will be processing undergraduate and postgraduate applications, making decisions consistently and fairly against pre-defined entry criteria. Your experience of administration, use of a range of software packages plus your customer facing communication skills will be essential to succeed in this role.
Key responsibilities include:
* Working with admissions colleagues to process applications in accordance with internal and external processes and regulations, referring complex issues to the Admissions Officer
* Being involved in organising selection events, interviews and a range of applicant day activities
* Responding to queries from applicants, academic colleagues and other internal and external stakeholders
* Offer making and support of the confirmation and clearing activities
To be effective in the role you will need:
* Good written and verbal communication skills
* Experience in an administrative and/or customer facing environment
* Good IT skills, including full working knowledge of MS Office
* Good attention to detail
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
This role is offered on a full-time hours per week), permanent basis. This role is also eligible for agile working, meaning you could work from home for part of the week, to be arranged with your manager and after your initial training.
**Please note, we may close the vacancy earlier than advertised, giving 24 hours notice to candidates with a pending application if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.**
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The University is committed to an inclusive environment which embraces equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment. We particularly encourage male applicants and all those from Minority Ethnic backgrounds. The university is underrepresented by these groups at this job grade.
For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee's home. It is the University's expectation that home working will take place within the UK.
Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.