INTERVIEW DATE: THURSDAY 15 MAY 2025.

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC), part of Birmingham City University, is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Administrative Officer to join its Principal’s Office team. The Principal’s Office is integral to supporting senior management across all functions at RBC.
In this role, you will oversee the day-to-day management of more than 300 hourly-paid tutors who are central to delivering teaching and learning in Music and Acting. Your responsibilities will include supporting tutor recruitment, induction, workload allocation, and processing pay claims. You will also administer the University’s Workload Allocation Model within the Conservatoire and play a key role in organizing Open Days, which regularly attract over 350 visitors. This involves collaboration with academic and administrative teams within RBC and the wider University, including HR, finance, and marketing.

ABOUT US

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the recruitment, induction, workload allocation, and pay claims for hourly-paid tutors.
• Administer the Workload Allocation Model.
• Play a lead role in the organization of RBC Open Days.
• Collaborate with academic and administrative teams across RBC and Birmingham City University.