Overview
HR Recruitment Administrator (CH13626) – Bath, BA2 7AY
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.
About the Role
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.
What a Typical Day Might Look Like
- Managing our shared inbox and responding to queries from hiring managers, external organisations, and employees.
- Updating and maintaining our in-house HR database.
- Collating and preparing information using Excel and MS Teams including relocation, visa and interview expense claims.
- Ensuring all required documentation is collected to satisfy immigration compliance.
- Supporting the Recruitment Team with a range of administrative tasks.
- Helping coordinate the University’s annual Work Experience Programme.
- Triaging general queries from hiring managers and HR colleagues.
This is a busy, varied role that would suit someone who enjoys a lively work environment, great staff benefits.
About You
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.
Key skills we’re looking for:
- Well-developed administrative and organisational skills
- Ability to follow processes and use your initiative
- A solutions-focused approach
- Confidence managing multiple tasks and priorities each day
Further Information
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.
What we can offer you
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:
- Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
- Generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance
- Generous employer contributory pension schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
- Staff discount at Team Bath gym
- Staff benefits include discounted postgraduate tuition and language courses, alongside a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities such as apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning, and more
- Local discounts, including free entry to the Holburne Museum in Bath
- 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
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.
Be Well at Bath
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:
- Staff support groups and networks
- A network of Staff Wellbeing Champions
- A suite of tools, resources and frameworks that enable you to be at your best and thrive
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
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