Job title Research Support Administrator

Department School of Management

Salary Starting from £25,138, rising to £28,759

Grade Grade 5

Placed on Thursday 16 November 2023

Closing date Thursday 30 November 2023

Interview date See advert

Reference KW11198

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The University of Bath School of Management is looking to appoint an Administrator to support the smooth running of the busy and expanding Research Office.

The Research Office is run by the Head of Research Operations who will provide line management, however, you will also receive guidance from the Associate Dean for Research and will work closely with all members of the research office team.

You will operate as first point of contact for the Research Office, so will deal with a wide range of queries, either answering them yourself or forwarding on to the appropriate team member. You will become an integral contact point for faculty members within the School.

The role involves managing the School Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee and the various responsibilities which fall within this structure, including:

You will also assist in organising research seminars and events, updating event webpages and liaising with various stakeholders throughout the School and wider University on Research matters.

This is a busy and varied role involving daily communication with academic staff, other School and University teams, and our Visiting Academics.

We are looking for someone who is proactive and confident speaking to a variety of people, who has excellent organisational skills, who can manage their own workload and effectively prioritise and multi-task. The ability to learn quickly and to form effective working relationships in the School are also key pre-requisites of the post.

We are one of the UK's leading business schools and have recently been named the University of the Year by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023. We're ranked 1st in the country for Marketing, and Top 5 for both Accounting and Finance, and Business and Management Studies (The Complete University Guide 2023). We offer a range of business and finance degrees at undergraduate, Master's and doctoral levels. We're also a leading centre for research. In the latest Research Excellence Framework, 56% of our submissions met the 4 standard (the highest possible).

This is a full-time open-ended position of 36.5 hours (1fte) per week.

Interviews are expected to take place on Monday 11 December.

Informal enquiries about the post may be directed to Amanda Willmott, Head of Research Operations ([email protected]), however, please ensure that you submit your application through the University of Bath website.

We aim to be an inclusive 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 our teams.

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 will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.