Job Posting Title : Executive Assistant
Grade and Salary : Grade 5
FTE and working pattern : Full-time
Reports to : Senior Executive Assistant – Dubai Campus
About the role :
The Executive Assistant to the Deputy Principal Education & Student Life will provide essential administrative support, including managing appointments, coordinating schedules, arranging travel, maintaining records, preparing reports, and handling correspondence. This role calls for a proactive, dynamic individual who excels in a fast-paced environment, offering forward-thinking solutions. You will ensure that the Deputy Principal is well-prepared and that tasks are completed efficiently and to a high standard.
You will also work closely with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders ensuring professional and timely service delivery.
The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate with colleagues across campuses to achieve shared goals.
As part of the Administration unit, you will report to the Senior Executive Assistant at the Edinburgh Campus actively contributing to transformation and operational excellence.
Summary of Key Duties and Responsibilities :
Please note that this job description is not exhaustive, and the role holder may be required to undertake other relevant duties commensurate with the level of the post and its general responsibilities. Activities may be subject to amendment over time as the role develops and / or priorities and requirements evolve.
Education, Qualifications & Experience :
Essential
Desirable
Heriot-Watt University Values
With a history dating back to 1821, Heriot-Watt University has established a reputation for world-class teaching and professionally relevant, leading-edge research, which has made it one of the top UK universities for business and industry.
We are a vibrant, forward-looking university, well known for the quality of our degrees with employers actively seeking out our graduates. Heriot-Watt is also Scotland’s international university with an unsurpassed international in-country presence. We deliver degree programmes to circa 30,000 students in 143 countries around the world, have a further overseas campus in Dubai and boast the largest international student cohort in Scotland.
At Heriot-Watt we’ve created an environment that nurtures innovation and leadership - where our researchers, staff and students can realise their potential and develop their ambitions.
We are proud of our collegiate atmosphere and integrated teaching and research approach which has helped to build a community of committed academics and highly motivated students. Our focus on careers delivers results and we’ve an excellent reputation for graduate employability.
In addition to the Edinburgh campus, we currently have campuses in the Scottish Borders, Orkney, Dubai and Malaysia. For all of our campuses we aim to provide stimulating, supportive environments conducive to effective learning and research, where staff and students can excel. At Heriot-Watt, we have an established set of values that help us to nurture innovation and leadership, and show our commitment to continuous improvement and development in all our activities.
Our values describe our deeply held beliefs and our community spirit. They characterise not only how we are as a higher education institution but also frame how we want to be.
Our values are :As learning, living and working institution, we use our values as the building blocks of how we go about doing our work and how we each conduct ourselves as members of Heriot-Watt University. They represent what binds us together as a University community and help us to become the best at what we do.
Executive Assistant • United Arab Emirates