Department
Human Resources
Salary
Starting from £26,707, rising to £30,378 pro rata per annum
Closing date
Sunday 08 March 2026
About The Role
Join our Workforce Development Team and help the University succeed through the excellence of its people. Youll provide high-quality, proactive administration that keeps our services running efficiently and adapting to change. Your specialist focus will be the Academic Career Progression system supporting senior managers and academic colleagues through probation and promotion processes, while also collaborating across the team on projects and service improvement.
Day-to-day, youll prepare papers for committee meetings, collate and validate information, maintain accurate digital and physical records, attend meetings to capture outcomes, and communicate decisions clearly and professionally. Youll manage enquiries from staff and managers, liaise with external stakeholders where needed, and help us deliver a smooth, well-governed process.
Youll also support broader workforce development activity, helping organise development programmes and events, updating web pages, monitoring shared inboxes, and contributing to projects (for example, staff surveys or systems changes). Confident with data, youll assist with extracting information from HR systems and producing straightforward statistical reports.
This is a busy, varied role that will suit someone who enjoys juggling deadlines, takes pride in accuracy, and communicates with tact and clarity at all levels. We offer a genuinely hybrid set-up; youll have significant discretion over where you work on any given day, balancing on-campus needs with focused time at home to get things done.
Essential
Strong administrative experience in a busy, deadline-driven environment, with excellent organisation, accuracy and attention to detail
Confident communicator (written and verbal) who can draft clear papers, take concise notes, and provide helpful guidance to colleagues at all levels
Customer-focused, collaborative approach; able to build positive relationships and handle sensitive information with discretion
Good digital skills: MS Word, Excel, email and web editing; comfortable working with databases/HR systems and producing basic statistical reports
Awareness of good data management practice (e.g., Data Protection/FoI)
Desirable
Experience in a general or specialist HR environment
Experience organising and supporting events; using database/reporting tools
What Youll Demonstrate
Commitment to high standards, inclusivity, and great service; a growth mindset and willingness to learn; resilience under pressure and changing priorities
Further Information
This role is offered on a part-time (22 hours per week) fixed-term basis with an expected end date of 06/11/2026.
If you would like an informal conversation to find out more, please contact Alice Tedds.
We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.
We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, and an autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
What We Can Offer You
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
Free counselling services through Health Assured
Cycle to work scheme
Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
Staff discount at Team Bath gym
Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
Staff discount on language courses
Generous employer contributory pension schemes
Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities, including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
Local discounts and more
A family-friendly workplace
An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
Relocation allowance
Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
Find out more about our benefits on our website and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us on X and LinkedIn.
Right to Work in the UK: We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship, and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.
Anonymous shortlisting: We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.
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