Location: SAMS, Oban Contract Type: Fixed Term – up to 31st December 2026 Working Pattern: Part Time - 26 hrs per week – preferred work pattern Tues-Fri, however, open to discussing other options. Happy to consider a blend of home/onsite working. Salary Range: £26,444.000 - £29,605.00 per annum (FTE). Closing date: Sunday 23rd November 2025 The Role As the post is short term, the role will mainly focus in the following HR areas: Recruitment, onboarding and probationary processes. Advertising jobs, organising sifts and interviews including HR participation on interview panels. You will also carry out all inductions for new staff and monitor probationary reports. You will also assist with requests for casual employment and student internship enquiries. Maintaining HR records. You will carry out data entry and run reports on our HR database as well as support other software systems requiring data input and maintenance. You will also calculate and update annual leave records for staff. Payroll – Run a small monthly payroll. HR administration/support – prepare contracts of employment, letters, documents, assist with employee benefits, HR queries, purchase orders, student intern requests, update training records, ordering stationery. Support other areas of SAMS – new HR projects, reception break cover (on occasion), visitor centre cover one day a week in our Ocean Explorer Centre (Fri). There is also scope, where time allows, to learn additional HR tasks which are of interest and support your career goals. Our Ideal Candidate We are looking for a versatile individual who has either HR work experience, just completed an HR degree or CIPD Level 3 qualification or an administrator looking to upskill and increase their knowledge base and gain further work experience. Ideally, you will have experience of recruitment and general HR admin, possess excellent customer service and communication skills and be able to work in a small team environment. You will also be conversant with Microsoft applications – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and OneDrive. The successful candidate must be able to start work by 1st February 2026. This is to allow time for a handover of work tasks. Employee Benefits Our relatively small, caring community is an ideal environment for making friends, forming collaborations, and supporting each other to do the work that we really care about. Oban and surrounding areas provide a fantastic base to live and work, and we offer a wide range of employee benefits, support and inclusive culture, making SAMS a great place to work. Our employees are the heart of our business. Recruiting and retaining the right people is the key to our success. Rewarding our employees is therefore an important component of our employment package and we have a wide range of benefits on offer to staff to support your work and lifestyle. We are proud to provide a wide variety of benefits year-round, offering options to best support our staff, such as: flexible & hybrid working options, purchase of additional annual leave, shopping discounts, Cycle 2 Work scheme, purchases of technology through salary sacrifice, Payroll Giving, Pensions Plus, access to portals to support health and wellbeing, a sabbatical scheme, free car parking with access to electronic charging points as well as access to a number of training & development courses. Additionally, SAMS encourages and recognises excellence among staff through various recognition and reward arrangements. We are striving to constantly develop and expand the benefits and offers for our colleagues. Interested? We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to HR@sams.ac.uk Applications must include CV and Cover Letter and should be sent electronically to recruitment@sams.ac.uk quoting Job Ref. ‘D14/25.KC in the subject heading. Closing date for application is 23rd November 2025 - Interviews to be held on 2nd December 2025 on-site at SAMS. Please note, we are unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Full details can be found here: www.sams.ac.uk/vacancies We are a Disability Confident Employer. Where a candidate requires reasonable adjustments as part of the application process, we encourage you to let us know. Where applicants with a disability meet the essential criteria for the job, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your skills, talent and abilities at interview. SAMS’ commitment to gender equality has been recognised, as our institute was presented with an Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Bronze Award and is currently working towards Investors in Diversity accreditation. SAMS follows Fair Work Practices. SAMS Group is committed to being an equal and open organisation. Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we strive to remove any barriers that may prevent people from applying to join us. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and from all who share our values and can help us to broaden our knowledge and range of ideas.