Assistant Registrar (Exams)

We are seeking a highly skilled, experienced individual to join Academic Registry as an Assistant Registrar (Exams).

This fixed-term position is an exciting opportunity to lead a comprehensive review and transformation of our exams service, ensuring future-focused sustainability and excellence in delivery. 

You will be responsible for developing and implementing a new operating model for the University's exam services. You will manage the central exams service, ensuring seamless delivery of summative exams both in-person and remotely. This role requires innovative thinking, strong leadership, and the ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders across the University. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a comprehensive review of the current exams operating model. 
• Develop fully costed recommendations for a future-focused, responsive and sustainable exam delivery model. 
• Manage the central exams service, ensuring deadlines and budgets are met. 
• Collaborate with academic and professional services colleagues to enhance exam processes. 
• Maintain high standards of data quality and compliance with relevant regulations. 
• Provide leadership of the exams team and play a key role in the senior management team within Academic Registry. 

About you

You will have significant experience in operational or exam management, with a proven track record of leading change and improving service delivery. You will also possess:

• excellent business analysis skills
• the ability to engage with stakeholders at all levels
• a commitment to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion

Further information

This is a full-time role (36.5 hours per week) for a fixed-term period until 31 December 2026.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact:

James Arthur, Head of Registry Services, on ja226@bath.ac.uk.

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.

Find out more about our benefits.

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, so we 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 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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Further details:

• Job Description & Person Specification
• Terms and Conditions of Employment

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