Professional Placements Administrator - Internal Only

University of Brighton; Brighton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Brighton is recruiting a permanent, full-time Professional Placements Administrator to join the College Office - Health, Education and Public Life. You will organise student placements with external providers and manage data and records, ensuring timely and accurate information across teams.

Excellent communication and customer service are essential, as is experience in a busy organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience building professional networks and maintaining relationships.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team to meet deadlines.
• Good customer service experience with clear communication.
• Administrative experience in a fast-paced, complex organisation.
• Strong IT skills with MS Office; Excel proficiency is important.

Responsibilities

• Organise and monitor the placement of students with external providers.
• Assess suitability of placements and match students accordingly.
• Maintain extensive contact with students, staff and providers.
• Provide practical placement data and up-to-date information.
• Plan workload and use databases and Excel confidently.

Skills

Communication skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Independent work

Problem solving

Tools

MS Office

Excel

Databases

Job description

College Office - Health, Education and Public Life

Location: Brighton - Falmer and Moulsecoomb Salary: £27,319 to £30,378 per annum Closing Date: Wednesday 21 October 2026 Reference: CH5016-26-223

We are seeking to recruit a permanent, full-time Professional Placements Administrator to join our vital placements team within the College of Health, Education and Public Life

This is a busy and highly responsible role working within a supportive and well-established team, and you will have responsibility for organising and monitoring the placement of students with a range of external placement providers. This will involve assessing the suitability of placements and matching students to placements appropriately. You will have extensive contact with students and staff at a variety of levels within the University, and external placement provider contacts, providing practical advice and up to date placement data, so your effective communication and customer service skills will be invaluable for building effective relationships.

As well as using your own initiative, you will need to be able to work flexibly and collaboratively as part of a large and friendly team. You must have the ability to work systematically to meet frequent hard deadlines and have the problem-solving abilities to proactively deal with unexpected change. The ability to plan and prioritise your own workload and to accurately and confidently work with databases and Excel is essential to this role.

To Be Successful, You Should Have

• The skills to be able to build professional networks and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team, using your own initiative to progress and meet frequent deadlines.
• Good customer service experience, which will include excellent communication skills.
• Administrative experience in a complex fast-paced organisation
• Good IT skills, including full working knowledge of MS Office programmes. Excel skills are of particular importance.

Experience of workingwithlarge databases and software platforms is required, and an understanding of University processes would also be of benefit, but by no means essential.

The role is eligible for agile working, to be arranged with your manager after your initial induction training has been satisfactorily completed and we welcome applications from candidates seeking to job share.

Further Details

Job Description

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.