Personal/Executive Assistant and Project Officer (Space and Sustainability) (CC

The University of Bath has established sustainability as one of its core values and is creating a Sustainability Plan to ensure that this value is embedded across its activities:

by delivering world class research in sustainability;ensuring that its graduates are future-ready to engage in more ethical and sustainability-minded businesses;and adopting sustainable principles across its business and operational practices.  

About the role

You will play a key part in helping to coordinate the activities of the Director of Sustainability & Space, and the team, providing admin support to the Director including the management of diaries, coordinating meetings, minuting Committees.

Outside of this, you will be expected to support on a number of specific tasks including:

the administration of the Sustainability Management System - coordinating and oversight of key templates and registersthe coordination of the annual submission to the higher education sustainability ranking schemes oversight of the team policies and the team diaryproject management of specific projects related to the Sustainability Plan. 

 You will also help with the day-to-day management of the team's budgets.

About you

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in a Personal/Executive Administration role - with a proven record in written and oral communications, data management and good organisational skills. You should be able to manage a high workload competently and effectively, and will also need to be comfortable handling sensitive information. 

Given the project focus, you should have proven experience of administering and delivering projects, and an understanding of sustainability and how this can support higher education institutes is desirable. 

Further information

Interviews are scheduled to take place on 14th and 15th January 2026.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Peter Phelps, Climate Action Project Lead at [email protected] or Jenny Davies, Executive Officer to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement) at [email protected]

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

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 AssuredCycle to work schemeElectric vehicle salary sacrifice schemeStaff discount at Team Bath gymStaff discounts on postgraduate tuition feesStaff discount on language coursesGenerous employer contributory pension schemesGenerous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balanceA wide range of personal and professional development opportunities including Apprenticeships, LinkedIn Learning and moreFree entry to the Holburne Museum in BathLocal discounts and moreA family-friendly workplace An excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforceRelocation allowance

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Closing Date: 07 Jan 2026

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £31,236 to £37,694