Receptionist
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Role Overview & Responsibilities
Applications are invited for the post of Receptionist. The successful candidate will join the front of house team at the Department of Engineering's site in Trumpington Street.
Playing a key role in providing a professional welcome to all visitors, you will be the first point of contact for telephone and in-person enquiries to the Department. You will also be responsible for carrying out mailroom duties.
The role requires the ability to interact effectively with a wide range of people, both in person and over the telephone, so you will need excellent customer-facing skills, as well as a high level of professionalism and tact. In addition to this, the ability to manage a diverse range of activities, often under pressure, is essential.
Benefits of working at Cambridge include:
- Competitive rates of pay with automatic service related pay progression and annual cost of living increases;
- Generous annual leave allowance of 40.5 days paid leave (including bank holidays);
- Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family friendly schemes (e.g. workplace nurseries and salary exchange schemes for childcare);
- An auto-enrolment pension scheme, with a generous employer contribution;
- Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.
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If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering (hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk, 01223 332615).
Please quote reference NM35243 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.
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