Administrator (Doctoral Programmes) (CC12317)

University of Bath
January 12, 2025
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Job title Administrator (Doctoral Programmes)

Department Doctoral College

Salary Starting from £26,038, rising to £29,659

Grade Grade 5

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Tuesday 17 December 2024

Closing date Sunday 12 January 2025

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CC12317

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The Doctoral College provides support to all prospective and current doctoral students to enable them to join and thrive in our research community, and we wish to appoint an Administrator to the team looking after current students.

About the role

This is a varied and demanding role which provides direct support to doctoral students, supervisors, Directors of Studies and others involved in supporting doctoral provision.

Working alongside colleagues within the Doctoral College, you will provide a professional administrative support service for all doctoral students within the departments/programmes for which you are responsible, ensuring their progression through the various milestones associated with their doctoral journey. You will be the main point of contact for these students, and their supervisors, and will help them with their induction, managing their progression, dealing with changes of circumstance, submitting for examination and anything else that they might need help with.

You will be responsible for administering all academic administrative processes associated with doctoral provision liaising as appropriate with Directors of Study, colleagues in the Doctoral College, Academic Registry, Finance and other professional services.

About you
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Demonstrate a good use of initiative
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Have the ability to multi-task
  • Be able to prioritise a high workload
  • Further information

    For an informal discussion about the role please contact Simon Gane, Head of PhD Student Administration ([email protected]) or Ceri Dibble, Doctoral Programmes Officer ([email protected]).

    What we can offer you
  • a very generous employer contributory pension scheme
  • generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
  • we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements
  • an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
  • a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities
  • 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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    Further details:
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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.

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