Placements Administrator

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our busy team within the Faculty Placements Office, supporting students from subjects including Health, Education, and Languages.

You will play a vital role in providing support to the Placements team, ensuring that services are efficient, effective and adapt to changing circumstances. You will act as a point of contact for undergraduate students, staff and employers, dealing with enquiries and providing guidance. You'll communicate persuasively and tactfully with academic staff, placement providers and students, ensuring compliance with milestones throughout the placement. 

This role may cover administration of both undergraduate and postgraduate placements, as well as that required for study abroad programmes. 

For more information, see the attached job description and person specification. For an informal chat please get in touch with Victoria Maskell, Partnerships Manager, at [email protected] or Martin Gore, Placements Manager at [email protected] . Please ensure you submit your application through our website.

This position is offered on a full time, fixed term basis (to cover maternity) until January 2025 or the early return of the post-holder. 

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop good working relationships with staff, students and members of the public
• Ability to coordinate resources other than oneself (arrange events)   
• A methodical and motivated approach to work    
• Ability to handle confidential information with tact and discretion    
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible and to learn new skills quickly      
• Excellent IT skills

The ability to demonstrate a good use of initiative, to multi-task and prioritise a high workload will also be highly valued.

Our teaching excellence and real-world experience encourage wider thinking. We help our students realise their potential and make a positive impact on society. We offer a diverse range of undergraduate courses covering economics, education, psychology, policy and languages. We also offer a variety of taught and research-based postgraduate courses, from master's to doctorate qualifications. Learn more about our Faculty and its programmes at http://www.bath.ac.uk/hss/.

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits .

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive 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, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams. 

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff .

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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 will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.