Maintenance Administrator

Part-time, permanent

£13,169 – £14,979.50 plus £750 Oxford weighting

17.5 hours per week

Deadline: Tuesday 27 May 2025

The Maintenance Administrator provides administrative support to day-to-day maintenance activities across the College’s facilities. The role involves handling appropriate maintenance administration, monitoring and passing on maintenance requests, and communicating with students, academics and College staff about maintenance work. The post holder is also responsible for administrative work relating to health and safety for the department, and is the point of contact for external contractors – providing induction information to ensure they follow the College’s procedures and site protocols.

To be successful in your application, you will need to have previous experience in an administrative role, along with excellent organisational and prioritisation skills and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with a wide range of people. The successful candidate will be a proactive team player, with the ability to provide excellent customer service. Good IT skills, strong attention to detail, and a flexible and cooperative approach to the role will be essential.

St Antony’s College is a lively community of students, Fellows and staff, providing a sense of belonging, mutual support, shared knowledge, and a feeling of identity and place. The College is the normal place of work for all College staff. The Maintenance Team is pivotal to our service delivery for our community, including students and senior academic colleagues as well as operational and administrative staff. The team is based on the site at St Antony’s College, Woodstock Road, Oxford but also maintains other College properties (all currently adjacent to the main College site, or within less than 10 minutes’ walking distance).

Working at St Antony’s College

This is a part-time post (17.5 hours per week).

The Maintenance Administrator will be paid on the University grade 4 scale, currently £13,169 – £14,979.50 gross p.a. (£26,338 – £29,959 FTE) plus £750 Oxford weighting (£1,500 FTE). There is a probationary period of three months.

We offer excellent employee benefits, including:

21 days (41 days FTE) annual leave including bank/public holidays. It should be noted that holiday cannot normally be taken during term time and College staff work on bank holidays falling during term time
Membership of the OSPS pension scheme
Free meals in College during normal working hours and when the Hall is open
Access to a car parking space in the College’s grounds if one is available.

How to apply

Please send a completed application form by email to recruitment@sant.ox.ac.uk by 9am on Tuesday 27 May 2025. Interviews are expected to be held in the week commencing 2 June 2025.

Candidates will be shortlisted solely on the extent to which they meet the essential and desirable criteria of the person specification based on their application form. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

Any offer of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and the right to work in the UK.

St Antony’s College is an equal opportunities employer. Applicants will be asked to complete a confidential and anonymous online monitoring survey, which is not seen by the selection panel.

A privacy notice for applicants and information about how we use your data can be found at https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about-st-antonys/how-we-use-your-data

Published date: May 8, 2025