ResLife Events and Engagement Coordinator

About the role

Are you passionate about creating vibrant communities, delivering engaging events and supporting students to thrive?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the residential student experience at the University of Bath. Working closely with students and colleagues across the University, you will help create a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment where students feel connected and part of a community.

As ResLife Events and Engagement Coordinator, you will:

Coordinate and deliver an engaging ResLife programme, including welcome events, wellbeing campaigns and community initiatives.

• Work with students to understand their experiences, gather feedback and identify opportunities to improve the residential experience.
• Use student insight, feedback and engagement data to inform activities and improve services.
• Create engaging communications and digital content across a range of channels to promote events, encourage participation and share key messages.
• Develop creative promotional materials and simple design assets to support campaigns and activities.
• Build positive relationships with students, colleagues and other stakeholders across the University.
• Support and coordinate a team of ResLife Ambassadors, providing guidance, training and day-to-day support.

About you

We're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about student experience, wellbeing and community building.
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Experienced in planning and delivering events or engagement activities.
• Confident in creating digital content and engaging communications.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Skilled at building positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Data-informed, with the ability to use insight and feedback to improve services.
• Flexible and proactive, with a willingness to contribute to a dynamic and fast-paced team.

Further information

This role is offered on a permanent, full-time basis, 36.5 hours per week.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Louise Sansam, ResLife Marketing, Communications & Events Manager (lks40@bath.ac.uk). However please ensure that you submit your application through the University website.

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. 

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