The Faculty of Music is seeking to appoint an Administrative Assistant to provide efficient and effective office-based support. You will provide a reception service, dealing with day-to-day queries from staff and students, liaising with colleagues to provide support for meetings and office supplies as required. You will also support various aspects of the Faculty's teaching programme: administering the appointment and payment of additional teachers, collating student feedback, creating the termly teaching timetable and producing a yearly student handbook. In addition, you will administer the Faculty's Academic Visitors scheme and provide general clerical support to the Faculty Manager.

At the heart of a vast network of musical study, research and practice, the Faculty of Music is made up of 14 academic staff, 5 postdoctoral researchers, 10 affiliated lecturers and 18 support staff who work with around 200 undergraduates and 75 graduate students. As a world-leading centre of research the Faculty includes specialists in medieval and renaissance music, early modern music, nineteenth-century music, opera, popular music, ethnomusicology, performance studies, composition, and scientific approaches to music. The Faculty hosts the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies (CMPS) and the Centre for Music and Science (CMS). The Faculty facilities include a fully professional concert hall, a music library, a purpose-built studio and music computing facilities, as well as an impressive collection of historical instruments and a Javanese gamelan.

The successful candidate will have good organisational and communication skills and relevant experience in an administrative role.