About the role

You will support our doctoral training programme by making sure that sessions are scheduled and advertised to students, as well as supporting our trainers to make sure we are offering quality sessions to doctoral students. We have over 80 unique workshops so we need someone who is confident, organised and has attention to detail. You'll also be responsible for evaluating the programme, and preparing the next programme for 2026-27.

In addition to the training programme, you will take responsibility for managing our events and activities. You'll lead on some of our larger events such as our Doctoral Festival of Ideas and our Doctoral Research Celebration Evening. In addition, you'll also support our Three Minute Thesis competition, our writing retreats and other student development activities. No two days are the same. 

About you

To be successful in the role you will need to:

• enjoy working in a fast-paced and evolving and changing environment
• be open-minded and willing to try new things and new ways of working
• you will enjoy working with students and will be interested in their development and improving the student experience
• you will be an excellent planner, have strong communication skills and will be able to connect with people
• have excellent organisational skills as you will need to manage various projects and work to deadlines
• have previous experience either managing or supporting others

Further information

The role is full-time for a fixed-term period from January 2026 until August 2026 to cover for secondment.

You will be located in the Doctoral College where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days per week depending on work activities and on some occasions you may be required to work on campus more. 

Â鶹´«Ã½ employees may wish to consider this opportunity on a secondment basis, however, please discuss this with your line manager before applying. 

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oli Schofield, Head of Doctoral Researcher Development & Experience (os327@bath.ac.uk) or Shyeni Paul, Director of Operations (sp3052@bath.ac.uk). 

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

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Â鶹´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Closing Date: 15 Dec 2025

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £31,236 to £37,694

As our Administrator for Doctoral Development and Research Culture, you'll be right at the heart of supporting change – supporting a suite of development events and resources for the Doctoral College, supporting project plans, and finances that enable doctoral college research culture projects to realise their planned benefits. 

About the role

You'll have the chance to work with diverse groups of experts and stakeholders across the university and use your organisational skills to support initiatives that move the dial on the cultural changes that matter most to our community.

You'll largely be supporting our events and activities programme, as well as core research culture initiatives. To give you a flavour this includes but is not limited to:

• Doctoral Research Celebration Evening
• Doctoral Festival of Ideas
• Doctoral Discoveries: showcasing research impact through digital media
• Lighter Side of Research: comedy development programme
• Doctoral Recognition Awards

About you

You will: 

• have excellent organisational skills and are great at keeping projects on track 
• be a great team-worker with an eye for detail 
• have experience of an administrative/coordination support role,
• feel motivated by the idea of making a positive difference to the development of researchers, and to the culture that our research-related staff and students experience

Further information

The role is part-time working 21.9 hours per week (0.6FTE) for a fixed-term period until 31 July 2026.

Ideally we're looking for someone to do this across 3 days, or you may wish to spread this out over 4 or 5 days

You will be located in the Doctoral College where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work in the office 1-2 days per week depending on work activities.

Â鶹´«Ã½ employees may wish to consider this opportunity on a secondment basis, please do discuss this with your line manager before applying. As this is a fixed-term role, our ideal candidate will be able to start in early January 2026.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oli Schofield, Head of Doctoral Researcher Development & Experience (os327@bath.ac.uk) or Shyeni Paul, Director of Operations (sp3052@bath.ac.uk).

 

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

Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the Â鶹´«Ã½ a great place to work as well as following us and .

Closing Date: 03 Dec 2025

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £26,707 to £30,378 pro rata