About The Role
Are you an experienced higher education professional with a passion for academic quality, governance, and continuous improvement?
Assistant Registrar
We are looking for a proactive and collaborative Faculty Assistant Registrar to play a key role in supporting the Faculty’s academic governance and quality assurance activities. Working closely with senior academic leaders and Professional Services colleagues, you will provide expert advice on academic regulations, oversee programme lifecycle processes, support student casework, and ensure the effective operation of Faculty committees.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence the student experience, drive quality enhancement, and contribute to the strategic development of the Faculty.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Leading Faculty governance and committee administration
- Providing expert guidance on academic regulations, quality assurance, and programme management
- Supporting academic appeals, assessment offences, and student-related processes
- Producing reports and analyses to support institutional quality and compliance requirements
- Managing and developing the Faculty Taught Programmes Team
- Working with academic and professional services colleagues to promote best practice and continuous improvement
About You
You will have significant experience in higher education administration, with a strong understanding of academic governance, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance. You’ll be an excellent communicator, confident in working with senior stakeholders, and skilled at managing complex processes in a dynamic environment.
Join us and help shape an outstanding academic experience for our students while supporting excellence in teaching, learning, and governance.
Additional Information
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.
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:
- 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
- Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app
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.
Further Details
- Job Description & Person Specification
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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