Programmes Manager

About The Role

Working closely with another Programmes Manager you will lead the Taught Programme Team in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage and enhance the staff and student experience of programme administration within the Faculty.

This role will cover a breadth of policy and procedures related to academic quality and standards, student experience, and more generally the student lifecycle.

The Faculty offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses and research across diverse subjects such as economics, education, politics, languages, sport, psychology and social sciences.

Our professional services teams play a crucial role in supporting academic excellence and delivering an outstanding student experience.

You will combine leadership skills with energy, enthusiasm and strategic thinking to lead by example and support the team to provide an efficient professional service.

You should be able to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships with a range of colleagues of varying seniority and students.

With a large team and line management responsibilities, you should have excellent organisational skills, be a good team player and be able to manage your workload and stakeholder expectations.

We are looking for:

• Significant experience of programme administration and a general understanding of the HE sector.
• Experience of line-management.
• Leadership skills to support implementation of change and evolving policies and processes.
• Well-developed influence and relationship building skills.
• A willingness to embrace change and positivity.

This role is open-ended and offered on a full-time or part-time basis (0.8).

For an informal discussion, please contact the Assistant Registrar, Rachel Acres (e‑mail: ). However, please ensure your application is submitted via the University website.

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 are committed to gender equality and intersectionality with 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.

We maintain a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, and an 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.

• 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 to enjoy a positive work life balance.
• Wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, Linked In 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.

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Right to Work in the UK:
We do not assess immigration or right to work status until offer stage. Being invited to interview does not guarantee you are eligible for visa sponsorship and all offers are conditional on meeting right to work requirements. Further information is available on our application support webpage.

Anonymous shortlisting:
We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.