Director of Operations (CH12239)

Job title Director of Operations

Department Department for Health

Salary Starting from £56,921, rising to £65,814

Grade Grade 9

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Wednesday 27 November 2024

Closing date Sunday 05 January 2025

Interview date Thursday 16 January 2025

Reference CH12239

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

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This is an opportunity to play a leading role shaping the new Research Centre for 21st Century Public Health at the University of Bath.

You will be heading a multi-disciplinary team spanning the Departments for Health, Social and Policy Sciences, Economics, Psychology and Management. The Centre builds on the ground-breaking work of the Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) to look at the harmful products and practices of major corporations at a global level. Bath's novel approaches to research, policy and practice within complex systems aims to drive effective action on 21st century public health challenges.

As the most senior non-academic member of the Centre you will be engaged in developing and promoting its strategic vision and managing priorities for activities. In particular you will seek new streams of research grant funding. You will manage the Centre's day-to-day operations, foster the team culture and lead on engagement with stakeholders. You will line manage a team of senior managers and work closely with researchers, knowledge exchange, communications and administration experts who are engaged across multiple grants in the Centre's portfolio.

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

You will be experienced in leading and managing a complex team working within a research theme complementary to the work of the Centre.

With a comprehensive knowledge of team leadership and experience of developing and operationalising strategies you will also have:

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.