Commercial Administrative Assistant

Our growing department is seeking to hire a hands-on Commercial Administrative Assistant who will manage our hospitality and events bookings and liaise with key clients and stakeholders across the different organisations.

 

This is a varied role where you will be supporting a fast paced catering and hospitality team, you will need to be confident in dealing with customers, suppliers, invoicing, using different internal systems, whilst ensuring we put our customers and culture of continuous improvement at the centre of what we do.

 

As an employer of choice we can offer the successful candidate for this role a range of benefits, including:

  

Alongside these benefits we offer a first class working environment across our campuses with all the facilities you would expect from working across two leading Universities.

The successful candidate will have proven experience of working in fast-paced administrative roles, especially in catering, hospitality or events and have a high level of IT skills with particular competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

 

Alongside these key skills you will have a customer focused mind-set and strive to deliver and exceed students, staff and visitors’ expectations. You will have a flexible approach to hours and work and have experience of prioritising a substantial workload, whilst working accurately to challenging deadlines.

 

We are looking for candidates who also have the following skills/experience:

 

For full details of the skills/experience required, please see the job description above.

This position is offered on a permanent, part-time, 25 hours per week contract from 9.00 am until 2.00 pm (with some flexibility for start and finish times) across Monday to Friday.  There will be a very rare requirement for weekend working.

 

If you are looking to have an informal discussion about the vacancy ahead of applying please email [email protected].

 

The closing date for the position is Sunday 9 March 2025.

 

Falmouth Exeter Plus manages and delivers services at Falmouth, Penryn and Truro Campuses on behalf of Falmouth University and the University of Exeter. Working closely with the Falmouth & Exeter Students' Union (The SU) and the wider, universities partnership we support Higher Education learning and living, ensuring that the interests of all campus users are at the heart of everything we do.

It is a fast moving environment where agility and a positive approach to change and enhancement are central to our progress. Our mission is 'to deliver world-class shared professional services to help our partners achieve their global ambitions’.

Falmouth Exeter Plus welcomes and encourages job applications from people of all identities and backgrounds, particularly those under-represented and/or marginalised, as it is important we have a diverse range of candidates to consider.