Administrator (Doctoral Development and Research Culture)
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,707 to £30,378 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 December 2025 |
| Location: | Bath, Bath & N E Somerset |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | University of Bath |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | CC13198 |
Summary
The University of Bath is committed to an ambitious action plan to continually improve our research culture.
As our Administrator for Doctoral Development and Research Culture, you'll be right at the heart of supporting change – supporting a suite of development events and resources for the Doctoral College, supporting project plans, and finances that enable doctoral college research culture projects to realise their planned benefits.
About the role
You'll have the chance to work with diverse groups of experts and stakeholders across the university and use your organisational skills to support initiatives that move the dial on the cultural changes that matter most to our community.
You'll largely be supporting our events and activities programme, as well as core research culture initiatives. To give you a flavour this includes but is not limited to:
* Doctoral Research Celebration Evening
* Doctoral Festival of Ideas
* Doctoral Discoveries: showcasing research impact through digital media
* Lighter Side of Research: comedy development programme
* Doctoral Recognition Awards
About you
You will:
* have excellent organisational skills and are great at keeping projects on track
* be a great team-worker with an eye for detail
* have experience of an administrative/coordination support role,
* feel motivated by the idea of making a positive difference to the development of researchers, and to the culture that our research-related staff and students experience
Further information
The role is part-time working 21.9 hours per week (0.6FTE) for a fixed-term period until 31 July 2026.
Ideally we're looking for someone to do this across 3 days, or you may wish to spread this out over 4 or 5 days
You will be located in the Doctoral College where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work in the office 1-2 days per week depending on work activities.
University of Bath employees may wish to consider this opportunity on a secondment basis, please do discuss this with your line manager before applying. As this is a fixed-term role, our ideal candidate will be able to start in early January 2026.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oli Schofield, Head of Doctoral Researcher Development & Experience (os327@bath.ac.uk) or Shyeni Paul, Director of Operations (sp3052@bath.ac.uk).
As our Administrator for Doctoral Development and Research Culture, you'll be right at the heart of supporting change – supporting a suite of development events and resources for the Doctoral College, supporting project plans, and finances that enable doctoral college research culture projects to realise their planned benefits.
About the role
You'll have the chance to work with diverse groups of experts and stakeholders across the university and use your organisational skills to support initiatives that move the dial on the cultural changes that matter most to our community.
You'll largely be supporting our events and activities programme, as well as core research culture initiatives. To give you a flavour this includes but is not limited to:
* Doctoral Research Celebration Evening
* Doctoral Festival of Ideas
* Doctoral Discoveries: showcasing research impact through digital media
* Lighter Side of Research: comedy development programme
* Doctoral Recognition Awards
About you
You will:
* have excellent organisational skills and are great at keeping projects on track
* be a great team-worker with an eye for detail
* have experience of an administrative/coordination support role,
* feel motivated by the idea of making a positive difference to the development of researchers, and to the culture that our research-related staff and students experience
Further information
The role is part-time working 21.9 hours per week (0.6FTE) for a fixed-term period until 31 July 2026.
Ideally we're looking for someone to do this across 3 days, or you may wish to spread this out over 4 or 5 days
You will be located in the Doctoral College where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work in the office 1-2 days per week depending on work activities.
University of Bath employees may wish to consider this opportunity on a secondment basis, please do discuss this with your line manager before applying. As this is a fixed-term role, our ideal candidate will be able to start in early January 2026.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oli Schofield, Head of Doctoral Researcher Development & Experience (os327@bath.ac.uk) or Shyeni Paul, Director of Operations (sp3052@bath.ac.uk).
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