Department Coordinator (CH11920R)

Job title Department Coordinator

Department Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Grade Grade 5

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Tuesday 08 October 2024

Closing date Tuesday 22 October 2024

Interview date Tuesday 05 November 2024

Reference CH11920R

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

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We are looking for an eager, motivated and resourceful individual to join our busy team. You will play a vital role, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the department office and providing advice, support and information.

Key elements of the role include providing administrative and executive-level support to the Head of Department for the Department for Health, with the responsibility for co-ordinating core Department activities including HR and finance matters and providing full secretarial support for a number of department committees.

This varied and interesting post also includes co-ordinating recruitment and staff induction activity, support for Faculty based teams, departmental events, enquiry management, overview and allocation of Departmental space and management of operational relationships with Professional Services colleagues across the University.

This position is available on a full-time (36. hours per week), permanent basis.

You will need to be able to communicate persuasively and tactfully with colleagues, with an approachable and friendly style but with the willingness to challenge people and situations when necessary. You will also have excellent organisational skills, demonstrate a good use of initiative and have the ability to multi-task and prioritise a high workload.

Please click here for more information about our Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and its departments

For informal discussions about the role please contact Hannah Dixey (Operations and Projects Manager) on [email protected]

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.