Jobs at Bath | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

Assistant Registrar (ED13930)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

About the role

Are you an experienced higher education professional with a passion for academic quality, governance, and continuous improvement?

We are looking for a proactive and collaborative Faculty Assistant Registrar to play a key role in supporting the Faculty's academic governance and quality assurance activities. Working closely with senior academic leaders and Professional Services colleagues, you will provide expert advice on academic regulations, oversee programme lifecycle processes, support student casework, and ensure the effective operation of Faculty committees.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence the student experience, drive quality enhancement, and contribute to the strategic development of the Faculty.

What you'll be doing

Leading Faculty governance and committee administration
Providing expert guidance on academic regulations, quality assurance, and programme management
Supporting academic appeals, assessment offences, and student-related processes
Producing reports and analyses to support institutional quality and compliance requirements
Managing and developing the Faculty Taught Programmes Team
Working with academic and professional services colleagues to promote best practice and continuous improvement

About you

You will have significant experience in higher education administration, with a strong understanding of academic governance, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. You'll be an excellent communicator, confident in working with senior stakeholders, and skilled at managing complex processes in a dynamic environment.

Join us and help shape an outstanding academic experience for our students while supporting excellence in teaching, learning, and governance.

Additional information

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 equity 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:

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
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 Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses
Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the �鶹��ý a great place to work as well as following us and .

Be Well at Bath

We’re 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.

Closing Date: 30 Sep 2026

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £47,389 to £56,535

Student Support Officer (ED13938)

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences are seeking a Student Support Officer to cover a period of parental leave.

About the role

The Student Support Officer will play a key role in enhancing the taught student experience from induction through to graduation.

The Student Support Officer will work collaboratively with academic and professional services staff to contribute to an effective integrated student support system within a specific academic department (primarily the Department of Education), as well as help to identify students at risk of not succeeding, utilising the internal processes/services available.

The role will provide support for colleagues and processes supporting students through academic advising, course engagement monitoring, Disability Access Plans, Health, Wellbeing & Support for Study plans, Return to Study, and liaising with Student Support & Safeguarding.

The post-holder will foster and maintain excellent working relationships with colleagues in the academic department, the Faculty Student Support & Safeguarding and across the wider University.

About you

You will be pro-active and self-motivated, combining the use of your initiative with strategic thinking.

You will be able to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships with staff and students alike.

You should have excellent organisational skills, be able to interpret complex data and be able to successfully manage your workload, as well as stakeholder expectations.

Additional information

This role is offered on a part-time basis (21.9 hours per week). You can find out more about the �鶹��ý hybrid model here.

For more information about the Faculty, please visit .

For an informal discussion about this post please contact Annika Theilgaard (Student Engagement Manager – Humanities & Social Sciences) on act36@bath.ac.uk.