Professional Placements Administrator - Internal Only

Brighton; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Brighton is seeking a permanent, full-time Professional Placements Administrator to join the College Office - Health, Education and Public Life. The role focuses on organising student placements with external providers, assessing suitability, and matching students to placements while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.

You will work within a supportive team, manage databases and Excel data, and adapt to a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

Qualifications

• The candidate must have strong customer service experience and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team, meeting frequent deadlines.
• Proven ability to build and maintain professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience handling administrative tasks in a complex, fast-paced organisation.
• Proficient IT skills with MS Office, with emphasis on Excel.

Responsibilities

• Organise and monitor student placements with external providers.
• Assess placement suitability and match students to placements appropriately.
• Maintain contact with students, staff and external providers to provide up-to-date placement data.
• Offer practical advice and support to ensure successful placement outcomes.
• Work flexibly as part of a large team and meet hard deadlines.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

Deadline driven

Teamwork

Initiative

MS Office/Excel

Job description

Professional Placements Administrator - Internal Only

College Office - Health, Education and Public Life

Location: Brighton - Falmer and Moulsecoomb

Salary: £27,319 to £30,378per annum

ClosingDate: 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.

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.