Careers at Middlesex

Our staff make a difference to our students and to society as a whole. Whatever your role at Middlesex, you'll help take students on journeys that transform their lives.

Employee benefits

When you work here, you'll become part of an inclusive environment with an excellent employee benefits packages. Our staff can make the most of flexible hours, discounts on courses and support with childcare.

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Key benefits

There’s so much on offer for staff at Middlesex University. Take a look at the many benefits available to employees.

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Your health and wellbeing

Our aim is to foster an environment which helps staff and students fulfil their potential and thrive in the workplace and in their studies.

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Equality, diversity and inclusion

We firmly believe that the talents, skills, insights and experiences of our diverse community make us who we are.

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Our story

We are proud to be a global university, delivering outstanding education informed by our research and knowledge exchange.

International applicants

Middlesex is a diverse, inclusive and international university which values its staff and students who come from across the globe, enriching its community and campus life. We wish to nurture the diversity of our University by continuing to attract people from across the world.

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Our charters and memberships

We have signed up to the Race at Work Charter, are a member of Advance HE's Race Equality Charter (REC) and have been awarded a REC Bronze Award, which demonstrate our commitment to improving the representation, progression and success of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students within higher education.

We aspire to increasing diversity and inclusion at all levels in the University and a priority is to ensure that the University Executive are listening, learning and acting. Our Reverse Mentoring Framework is part of this process.

Middlesex University is a member of the Barnet Multi Faith Forum, which is widely represented by the 12 faith groups within Barnet and works to promote the value of faith groups within our community and the contribution they make to a peaceful, caring society.

We are also a member of the Inter Faith Network (IFN) for the UK, which works to promote understanding, cooperation and good relations between organisations and persons of different faiths in the UK.

The University is committed to flexible and family-friendly business practices. We are a member of Working Families, the UK’s work-life balance charity which leads the way in helping organisations and employees build enabling and flexible environments that enhance productivity, creativity and wellbeing so that work works for everyone.

We are also a member of Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident organisation, and have gained the highest Disability Confident Leader (level 3) status.

We have been awarded a Bronze Award by the Athena Swan Charter, which recognises that the University has a solid foundation for eliminating gender bias and developing an inclusive culture that values all staff.

Middlesex received a Gold Award and secured a place in the Top 100 list for leading LGBTQ+ inclusive employers in the workplace in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2023. We also ranked 58th out of 268 institutions in the overall ranking, and came 8th out of the 30 higher education institutions that took part this year. This is a significant achievement for the University and our community, substantially building upon our previous Bronze status and climbing up 45 places from 2022.

Stonewall LGBTQ+ inclusive employer Top 100 2023.

Stonewall is Europe’s largest charity for LGBTQ+ rights. The Top Employers list is compiled from submissions to the Workplace Equality Index, a powerful benchmarking tool used by employers to assess their achievements and progress on LGBT equality in the workplace.

We have been awarded the highest level, Excellence, of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard accreditation, which sets the benchmark for the best employment standards and recognises best practice across fair pay and conditions, workplace wellbeing, skills and progression, and diversity and recruitment. This is an important recognition of our commitment to our people, and also reflects the many ways in which we are striving for the best possible working conditions for our employees.

Middlesex is rated excellent by the GLA’s Healthy Workplace Charter Scheme and is an active member of the Healthy Universities network. Our work is to prevent work-related illness and injury and to assist staff to return to work after sickness absence.

Careers at Middlesex University