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Do you thrive in a dynamic and exciting working environment, supporting senior leaders in their realisation of strategic vision?

Are you interested in learning more about the role of universities in the global higher education landscape?

We are looking for a highly organised, professional and motivated personal assistant to join our Faculty Office team, supporting our Faculty’s Dean and other members of the executive leadership team, including administrative support for research activities.

About the role:

You will provide high level executive support to our Faculty’s senior management team and play a key role in enabling the delivery of the Faculty’s core strategic objectives.

This role is quite flexible, therefore we ask you to please state your preferred FTE at application stage between minimum .0.6 (21.9 hours per week) and 1.0 (36.5 hours per week). To confirm, the role is permanent but could be offered as a job share basis.

About you:

• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Good attention to detail
• Experience working busy environment
• Be able to prioritise workload

With proven experience of administration and an awareness of current initiatives and challenges in HE, you will demonstrate effective communication and excellent relationship building skills.

For an informal discussion, please contact Hannah Barnham (Operations & Projects Manager) on [email protected]

Please click here for more information about our Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences.

As a Faculty, we embrace change and provide a supportive environment in which to grow, offering professional development opportunities with a strong belief in the value of investing in our people and teams. We organise Faculty Away days, social events, book/craft clubs and are open to new and innovative ideas. We love to support our local community and charities through fundraising events.

The Faculty is currently operating a hybrid working pattern - more information can be found here https://www.bath.ac.uk/topics/future-ways-of-working-for-professional-services-staff/

What we can offer you:

• a very generous employer contributory pension scheme;
• generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance;
• we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements.;
• an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce;
• a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.
• a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

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 such as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and disabled people, 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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