Administrator (Doctoral Development and Research Culture)

The University of Bath is committed to an ambitious action plan to continually improve our research culture.

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.

University of Bath 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.

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