Doctoral Training and Events Officer in Bath

Job description

Doctoral Training and Events Officer

We are looking for an individual to join the Doctoral College us as Doctoral Training and Events Officer. You'll be part of a small team and central to our training and events offer to doctoral students.

About The Role

You will support our doctoral training programme by making sure that sessions are scheduled and advertised to students, as well as supporting our trainers to make sure we are offering quality sessions to doctoral students. We have over 80 unique workshops so we need someone who is confident, organised and has attention to detail. You'll also be responsible for evaluating the programme, and preparing the next programme for 2026-27.

In addition to the training programme, you will take responsibility for managing our

events and activities

. You'll lead on some of our larger events such as our

Doctoral Festival of Ideas

and our Doctoral Research Celebration Evening. In addition, you'll also support our Three Minute Thesis competition, our writing retreats and other student development activities. No two days are the same.

About You

To be successful in the role you will need to:

• enjoy working in a fast-paced and evolving and changing environment
• be open-minded and willing to try new things and new ways of working
• you will enjoy working with students and will be interested in their development and improving the student experience
• you will be an excellent planner, have strong communication skills and will be able to connect with people
• have excellent organisational skills as you will need to manage various projects and work to deadlines
• have previous experience either managing or supporting others
  
  

Further information

The role is full-time for a fixed-term period from January 2026 until August 2026 to cover for secondment.

You will be located in the Doctoral College where hybrid working is in operation. You will be expected to work in the office 2-3 days per week depending on work activities and on some occasions you may be required to work on campus more.

University of Bath employees may wish to consider this opportunity on a secondment basis, however, please discuss this with your line manager before applying.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Oli Schofield, Head of Doctoral Researcher Development & Experience (os327@bath.ac.uk) or Shyeni Paul, Director of Operations (sp3052@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

.

What we can offer you

Benefits

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:

• 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
  
  

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Terms and Conditions of Employment

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.

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Bath

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

11-12-2025

Profession type

Teaching / Instructors / Guides

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English