Department Strategic Manager (Student Experience) in Bath

Enhancing the student experience and outcomes is a core strategic priority for the University of Bath and we are now seeking to appoint an experienced Department Strategic Manager (Student Experience). The Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering is ambitious and committed to further strengthening the quality, consistency and sustainability of the student experience. This role represents a targeted investment to support that ambition, ensuring that improvement activity is well coordinated, evidence‑based and capable of being sustained over the longer term.

About The Role

You will be embedded within the Department and will take a strategic lead in developing a clear, prioritised and realistic long‑term action plan to enhance the student experience. Working closely with academic and professional services colleagues, the role will focus on coordinating activity, aligning priorities and translating insight into practical and sustainable action. A key outcome of the appointment will be to ensure that the action plan is fully developed, clearly communicated and owned by the Department, so that it is ready to be taken forward by colleagues beyond the end of the fixed‑term period. This is a strategic and enabling role, designed to create the conditions, structures and shared understanding needed to support sustained improvement over the medium to long term.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyse student experience data and existing initiatives to identify key themes, risks and opportunities.
• Design and coordinate a coherent, evidence‑informed improvement programme that aligns with University strategy and regulatory expectations.
• Develop a practical, long‑term action plan with clear ownership, milestones and measures of success.
• Support colleagues to embed new ways of working and transition activity into business‑as‑usual delivery.
• Coordinate communication, reporting and engagement to ensure transparency and shared understanding across the Department.

Further Information

This role is offered on a part‑time basis, working 21.9 hours per week (0.6 FTE) for a fixed‑term period until July 2027. The hours can be over 3 or 4 days, however, due to the nature of the role you would need to be on campus at least two days per week.

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.

Benefits

• 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.
• Employee assistance services through Health Assured, including access to the Wisdom app.
• Relocation allowance.

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.

Further Details

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.