Vacancy I. D.: 039992 - Senior Administrator SETU Strategy Office - Grade VI (Permanent) Confined Competiton Contract: Permanent Whole-Time Salary: The gross salary scale applicable to the grade of Senior Staff Officer is €57,897 - €70,733 (rates effective 01/02/2026).
Confined Competition: This is a confined competition limited to the Education and Training Candidate Sector Pool i.e., eligible administration & library staff within SETU, Technological Universities, Institutes of Technology and Education & Training Boards at specific grades.
The SETU Strategy Office is involved in a number of core areas of institutional operations.
The Office overseas the development, publication, and implementation of the University strategic plan, along with reporting on that implementation to the SETU President, the Executive, the Governing Body, and other internal and external stakeholders.
The Strategy Office also oversees the development, revision, and implementation of the SETU Performance Agreement with the HEA, including annual Self Evaluation Reports and the management of associated processes.
The Strategy Office is the institutional contact point for the HEA with regard to institutional Performance.
The Strategy Office is the location of the University's institutional research function, CORDA, with ongoing responsibility for the University data governance framework, reporting to various University bodies on key SETU statistics, and the return to national agencies, including the HEA, of critical institutional data, including the RGAM return.
CORDA is a key enabler across the institution for management decision making.
Within Strategy is also the University's Change and Continuous Improvement function supporting units within SETU and the University as a whole to navigate the structural and organisational changes required to deliver on the University's core functions and strategic ambitions.
The Office also co-ordinates and manages a number of high impact cross-University projects (eg ROa D) and multi-partner sectoral projects (eg EDIP) and leads on behalf of SETU a number of national initiatives.
This broad range of increasingly complex activity requires the appointment of a senior administrator to provide core administrative support across all these areas.
Please be advised that this competition is confined to existing employees working in Technological Universities (TUs) and Education and Training Boards (ETBs).
Any candidate that is not employed in any of the aforementioned organisations is not eligible for consideration.
For further information please refer to Circular Letter 0007/2017 on Application Process: Applications must be made through the online recruitment system on SETU's Vacancies page on the website.
Please log onto SETU Vacancies for further details and to apply for this position.
Applications will not be accepted by email, any other third-party website or in any other format.
Garda Vetting may be required for particular posts.
SETU is an equal opportunities employer.
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