Company: University of Bath
Location: Bath
Posted: May 13th, 2026
Are you an organised, proactive administrator with great communication skills?
Looking for a flexible role that fits into your day and offers a meaningful way to support people across the University? If so, we’d love to hear from you!
We’re excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly and supportive HR team, working a few hours each day within a busy, fast-paced recruitment environment.
In this varied role, you’ll be involved in tasks across the entire employee life cycle, helping us deliver an exceptional recruitment service. You’ll play a key part in ensuring our processes run smoothly, providing high-quality administrative support to both colleagues and candidates.
You’ll also have the opportunity to develop your HR knowledge and gain insight into good practice, all while working at the heart of a collaborative team.
This is a busy, varied role that would suit someone who enjoys a lively work environment, great staff benefits.
You’ll be someone who enjoys juggling multiple tasks, with strong interpersonal skills and a positive, professional approach. You’ll be confident dealing with colleagues at all levels and able to work independently when needed.
While HR experience isn’t essential, excellent IT skills and strong written and verbal communication are a must.
This post is part time, working 29.2 hours per week offered on a maternity cover fixed term basis until 03 May 2027 or the early return of the postholder.
We operate a hybrid working model where you can work flexibly from home and the office.
We are ideally looking for someone who is able to work a few hours each day, Monday to Friday. However, we are happy to be flexible where possible.
For an informal discussion about the role please email Charlotte Harris (HR Recruitment Team Leader) on crh70@Bath.ac.uk or Jess McGee (Talent Acquisition Manager) on jm4118@bath.ac.uk
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 equity 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 and 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're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant. an accredited Disability Confident Leader; autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:
Find out more about our benefits and watch the video to hear from our staff about what makes the University of Bath a great place to work as well as following us X and LinkedIn.
We’re committed to creating a health-supporting working environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best. We offer a range of resources to enable you to do that from your first day here, including:
Find out more about being at your best at Bath.
Closing Date: 26 May 2026
Department: Management, Specialist and Administration
Salary: £24,685 to £26,093 pro rota per annum