Workforce Development Coordinator
About the role
Join our Workforce Development Team and help the University succeed through the excellence of its people. You'll 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, you'll 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. You'll manage enquiries from staff and managers, liaise with external stakeholders where needed, and help us deliver a smooth, well-governed process.
You'll 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, you'll 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; you'll 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 you'll 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; 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
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