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Cranfield University; Bedford; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

Cranfield University is seeking a Faculty Support Administrator to join the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The role provides pooled administrative support to academic and research staff, including processing purchase orders, booking travel, and managing emails and meetings.

Based at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, the post is 29.5 hours per week (hybrid: 3 days remote) with a permanent contract and a starting salary around £27,537 per annum pro rata.

Qualifications

• Provide administration support including raising orders for equipment and booking travel requests.
• Support academic staff, research staff and PhD researchers with processing purchase orders, travel bookings, emails, meetings, and records.

Responsibilities

• Process purchase orders, travel bookings and general enquiries to support the Theme and Administration Team.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, conferences and seminars and maintain up-to-date records.
• Prioritise and manage a varied workload with minimal supervision while maintaining accuracy.

Skills

Administrative experience

Microsoft Office

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Access

Job description

Faculty Support Administrator

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Faculty Support Administrator

Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £27,537 per annum, pro rata (29.5 hours per week)

Salary: from £27,537 a year, pro rata

Hours: Part-time

Location: Cranfield, Bedfordshire

Location: Bedford, MK43 0AL

Working pattern: Hybrid - 3 days remote

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 10 Sept 2026

Closing date: 4 Oct 2026

We welcome highly organised, self‑motivated people to join our team to provide administration support with things including, but not limited to, raising orders for equipment and booking travel requests.

About the Role

You will need to provide first‑class administrative support as part of a pooled resource to academic staff, research staff and PhD researchers within the Centres/Theme, which will include processing purchase orders, booking travel, managing emails and general enquiries, coordinating internal and external meetings, conferences and seminars, and maintaining up‑to‑date records on internal databases. This role ensures operational efficiency, professionalism and high standards of customer service, while proactively recommending improvements where appropriate.

The role is a key part of a flexible ‘pooled resource’ at the thematic level, coordinated by the Personal Assistant to the Director of Theme. Operating as a shared resource, the role will support major initiatives across the Theme and, where necessary, as directed by business needs and the Administration Team Lead, provide cover for the Faculty Administration Team and provide Faculty- and University‑wide support.

About You

Maintaining effective relationships is key to the job. You will therefore need to be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, including written and verbal communication skills, as you will be communicating with a wide network of staff and students within the Theme. You will be privy to confidential information in relation to staff, students and business decisions, and it is imperative that absolute discretion and confidentiality is shown, whilst contributing to the sense of professionalism with external contacts/clients and promoting the values of the organisation.

Using your experience in administrative work, you will have a thorough understanding of office systems, processes and databases, and a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.

You must have the ability to manage workload independently but also support the wider team and have knowledge and initiative to resolve both standard and non‑standard issues and queries, being proactive and taking the initiative to manage issues and find solutions promptly to ensure smooth and effective administrative support. You will be able to refer to the team for guidance as appropriate. The ability to prioritise and organise effectively a disparate range of tasks with minimal supervision, and the ability to work under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy, are important aspects of the role.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world‑class expertise, large‑scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential.

We are a Disability Confident Employer.

We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on‑site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 4 October 2026

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.