Programmes Administrator

The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences is looking for two proactive and self-motivated Programmes Administrators to join our Taught Programmes Team in full time, fixed term posts. This is to cover two maternity leave posts, both starting in March 2024. One will end in December 2024 and the other in March 2025.

You will play a key role, working closely with other team members and academic staff to ensure the smooth and efficient administration and operation of our degree programmes within the Faculty. 

You will have previous experience of working in an administrative support role (preferably with experience of student administration) or equivalent experience working in a busy office in an administrative role.

• Day-to-day administrative support for degree programmes
• Student and staff enquiries
• Student data management
• Processing student assessments and results
• Arranging events like Open Days and Applicant Visit Days

• Accuracy and attention to detail 
• Ability to manage a busy workload
• Teamwork
• Effective communication skills are essential as you will work closely with your team, academic colleagues and students from across the world
• Strong digital literacy
• Taking the initiative and problem-solving
• Process improvement

We care about delivering excellent service, student and staff wellbeing, and University reputation. If this approach resonates with you and you are a great teammate who also enjoys working independently, we would love to receive an application from you.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact the Programmes Manager (Operations) Elise Whittleton on (01225) 386492 or email [email protected] however, please ensure your application is submitted via the University website. 

The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences brings together six departments with an excellent reputation for both teaching and research. More information regarding our courses may be found here: http://www.bath.ac.uk/departments/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences/

As a Faculty, we embrace change and provide a supportive environment in which to grow, offering professional development opportunities with a strong belief in the value of investing in our people and teams. We arrange Faculty Away days, social events, book/craft clubs and are open to new ideas. We love to support our local community and charities through fundraising events.

During 2023/24 we are offering hybrid working in the Faculty Professional Services Staff team. This means you must work part of the week on campus in the office and you may also work part of the week from home. 

What we can offer you:

We aim 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 .

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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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.