Residence Allocations Team Leader (KW12028)

Job title Residence Allocations Team Leader

Department Campus Services

Salary Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Tuesday 03 September 2024

Closing date Tuesday 17 September 2024

Interview date Thursday 26 September 2024

Reference KW12028

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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About the role

An exciting opportunity to join our Residence Experience Team. This team sits at the heart of how Campus Services delivers it's services to students and guests. It provides a central physical and virtual ‘hub' for managing the resident student experience journey from choosing to apply for study at Bath right through to moving into private sector accommodation in their second year.

This role is responsible to the Residence Experience Manager for a professional service being provided to students during the accommodation pre- applications, application and allocation processes through to arrival.. Providing leadership, supervision and guidance to the allocations team, and taking the lead role in ensuring that the student experience meets or exceeds expectation. Ensuring our bed stock of over 4,500 beds is best utilised to deliver user requirements, providing excellent student experience and achieving commercial objectives through the co-ordination and allocation of student accommodation within University managed, and nominations accommodation.

Key to this role is to lead on the development and configuration of our student bed stock management system, including e-portal configuration. Continually reviewing and evaluating existing systems and processes and consider, explore and research innovative alternatives to drive performance, financial sustainability and efficiencies.

This is a full time position, with the option of compressed hours and hybrid working (Minimum of 3 days per week on campus)

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

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, so we 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 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 such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.