Student Success Adviser (Scholarships) (CC12451)

Job title Student Success Adviser (Scholarships)

Department Student Support and Safeguarding

Salary Starting from £30,505, rising to £36,924 pro rata

Grade Grade 6

Contract Type Part Time, Open Ended

Placed on Thursday 13 February 2025

Closing date Thursday 27 February 2025

Interview date Thursday 20 March 2025

Reference CC12451

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

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Join the friendly and dynamic Scholarships and Bursaries team, where you will play a key role in the organisation and delivery of the University's undergraduate scholarship and bursary programmes, enhancing the University experience for a wide range of students.

Our programmes provide financial support and an enriching programme of activities to University of Bath students from less advantaged backgrounds and to those with exceptional artistic talent.

The Gold Scholarship Programme and Claverton Scholarship Programme support students from under-represented backgrounds to maximise their Bath experience and to successfully transition to the next stage of their career/studies. Scholars attend key events during the year and complete employability experiences and personal development opportunities.

The Arts Scholarships provide financial support, mentorship and skills development to the Arts Scholars.

As one of the main points of contact for scholars, your role will include:

This would be a great opportunity for someone who enjoys organising events, communicating with a wide variety of people and relishes making a difference. Find out more about the difference these scholarships make to our students: https: // www. bath.ac.uk/guides/the-gold-scholarship-programme-from-2024-entry- onwards/#scholar-stories

You will need to have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively and sympathetically. Our ideal applicant will:

Our programmes make use of a variety of IT systems and tools, including Microsoft Sharepoint, Teams, Zoom, PowerApps and more – and therefore experience in using relevant systems and in improving systems or business processes, or a keenness to learn, will be an advantage.

This is a permanent, part-time role working between 18.25 hours - 21.9 hours per week (0.5 fte/0.6FTE).

Willingness to travel externally is required, and a moderate amount of evening and weekend work is necessary for which time in lieu is provided. In order to support key activities and events, you will also need to be available on a number of fixed dates through the year, which will be agreed annually for the September-September period.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Liz Simmons on [email protected], 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 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.

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on X for more information.

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.