Company: University of Bath
Location: Bath
Posted: May 20th, 2026
Create meaningful connections. Support research with people. Help build better futures.
If you’re energised by bringing people together, curious about how research can change the world, and excited by the idea of helping a university connect more deeply with society, you’ll thrive here. We’re looking for someone who wants to grow, experiment, and make a real difference in a role where your ideas genuinely matter.
As our Public Engagement Officer, you’ll be at the heart of a team that champions engaged, responsible and socially connected research across the University of Bath. You’ll support researchers to build meaningful relationships with the public, amplify stories of excellent engagement, and support programmes that inspire dialogue, collaboration, and change.
You’ll play a key role in delivering our communications, increasing our digital presence, supporting events and grant schemes, and ensuring our programmes run smoothly. One day you might be producing content that celebrates engaged research, the next supporting a festival event, or helping academics shape ideas with communities through upstream engagement and responsible research and innovation.
What you’ll do:
This is a role where you’ll learn, lead small pieces of work, support others to grow, and see the impact of your contribution across the University.
You should be a confident communicator; written, visual, and verbal, who likes connecting with people and making processes better.
You’ll succeed if you are:
This is a part-time role, working 0.8 fte (29.2 hours per week).
If you're excited by the idea of helping shape the future of public engagement with research and want to grow your own expertise along the way - we’d love to hear from you.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Bentley Crudgington, Deputy Head of Public Engagement (bsc50@bath.ac.uk) or Helen Featherstone, Head of Public Engagement (hf362@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 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 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.
Closing Date: 08 Jun 2026
Department: Management, Specialist and Administration
Salary: £26,707 to £30,378 pro rata