Personal Assistant

About the role

The University of Bath is a prestigious institution dedicated to academic excellence and innovation. Under the leadership of our new Vice-Chancellor, the Executive Team is being strengthened and enhanced to deliver against our strategic objectives.

We are seeking to appoint highly organised, proactive and professional Personal Assistants to support our new Deputy Vice-Chancellor, our new Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global) and our Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) in the fulfilment of their international, national, regional and institutional duties.

Working as part of a team, the successful candidates will provide key administrative and secretarial responsibilities including complex diary management, supporting meetings, commissioning briefing materials, and dealing with travel arrangements and financial tasks as well as high-profile visits and events. 

About you

With a successful track record as a Personal Assistant or in a similar administrative role, you will have exceptional organisational, confidential and time-management skills, strong written and verbal communication abilities, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), excellent IT skills and the ability to engage effectively with people at all levels. Most importantly, you will thrive in a busy and fast-paced environment and enjoy working with others to achieve success.

Further information

We are offering both full-time and part-time (0.5) opportunities. Hybrid working is available by negotiation, taking into account the support needs of our Senior Managers as well as the need to provide office cover as part of a team of Personal Assistants.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Suzanne Maxwell (Head of the Vice-Chancellor’s Office) via s.j.maxwell@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you

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.

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes
• Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
• A wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and more
• Free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
• Local discounts and more
• A family-friendly workplace 
• An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce
• Relocation allowance
• Visa reimbursement and Interest-Free Loan to help with the cost of some immigration expenses

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. 

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