HR Recruitment Administrator
Apply promptly! A high volume of applicants is expected for the role as detailed below, do not wait to send your CV.
Department
Human Resources
Salary
Starting from £24,685, rising to £26,093 per annum (pro rata)
Contract Type
Part-Time, Fixed-Term
Closing Date
Tuesday 26 May 2026
Interview Date
Monday 15 June 2026
Are you an organised, proactive administrator with great communication skills?
Looking for a flexible role that fits into your day and offers a meaningful way to support people across the University? If so, wed love to hear from you!
Were excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly and supportive HR team, working a few hours each day within a busy, fast-paced recruitment environment.
About the Role
In this varied role, youll be involved in tasks across the entire employee lifecycle, helping us deliver an exceptional recruitment service. Youll play a key part in ensuring our processes run smoothly, providing high-quality administrative support to both colleagues and candidates.
Youll also have the opportunity to develop your HR knowledge and gain insight into good practice, all while working at the heart of a collaborative team.
What a Typical Day Might Look Like
- Managing our shared inbox and responding to queries from hiring managers, external organisations, and employees
- Updating and maintaining our in-house HR database
- Collating and preparing information using Excel and MS Teams, including relocation, visa and interview expense claims
- Ensuring all required documentation is collected to satisfy immigration compliance
- Supporting the Recruitment Team with a range of administrative tasks
- Helping coordinate the Universitys annual Work Experience Programme
- Triaging general queries from hiring managers and HR colleagues
This is a busy, varied role that would suit someone who enjoys a lively work environment and great staff benefits.
About You
Youll be someone who enjoys juggling multiple tasks, with strong interpersonal skills and a positive, professional approach. Youll be confident dealing with colleagues at all levels and able to work independently when needed.
While HR experience isnt essential, excellent IT skills and strong written and verbal communication are a must.
Key Skills Were Looking For:
- Well-developed administrative and organisational skills
- Ability to follow processes and use your initiative
- A solutions-focused approach
- Confidence in managing multiple tasks and priorities each day
Further Information
This post is part-time, working 29.2 hours per week, offered on a maternity cover fixed-term basis until 03 May 2027 or the early return of the postholder.
We operate a hybrid working model where you can work flexibly from home and the office.
We are ideally looking for someone who is able to work a few hours each day, Monday to Friday. However, we are happy to be flexible where possible.
For an informal discussion about the role, please email Charlotte Harris (HR Recruitment Team Leader) or Jess McGee (Talent Acquisition Manager).
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 underrepresented 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:
- Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work-life balance
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
- Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- A family-friendly workplace
- An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
- Relocation allowance
- Visa reimbursement and an 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.
Be Well at Bath
Were committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:
- Staff support groups and networks
- A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
- A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive
Find out more about being at your best at Bath on our website.
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. xsngvjr To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.