ResLife Events and Engagement Coordinator

Job description

Are you passionate about creating vibrant communities, delivering engaging events and supporting students to thrive?

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the residential student experience at the University of Bath. Working closely with students and colleagues across the University, you will help create a welcoming, inclusive and supportive environment where students feel connected and part of a community.

As ResLife Events and Engagement Coordinator, you will:

Coordinate and deliver an engaging ResLife programme, including welcome events, wellbeing campaigns and community initiatives.

• Work with students to understand their experiences, gather feedback and identify opportunities to improve the residential experience.
• Use student insight, feedback and engagement data to inform activities and improve services.
• Create engaging communications and digital content across a range of channels to promote events, encourage participation and share key messages.
• Develop creative promotional materials and simple design assets to support campaigns and activities.
• Build positive relationships with students, colleagues and other stakeholders across the University.
• Support and coordinate a team of ResLife Ambassadors, providing guidance, training and day-to-day support.

About you
We're looking for someone who is:

• Passionate about student experience, wellbeing and community building.
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• Experienced in planning and delivering events or engagement activities.
• Confident in creating digital content and engaging communications.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Skilled at building positive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Data-informed, with the ability to use insight and feedback to improve services.
• Flexible and proactive, with a willingness to contribute to a dynamic and fast-paced team.

Further information
This role is offered on a permanent, full-time basis, 36.5 hours per week.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Louise Sansam, ResLife Marketing, Communications & Events Manager ( [email protected] ). However please ensure that you submit your application through 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 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:

• 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 .

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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.