As the Coordinator, you will play a pivotal role in the coordination, recruitment, event organization, and ongoing development of the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Chemical Technologies: A Systems Approach (CSCT). Working closely with the management team, you will provide administrative and financial support for the Centre's activities and students.

This role is full-time, office-based (with potential for occasional flexibility) and is funded until September 2032.

Key Responsibilities:

• Recruitment and Admissions: Manage the recruitment process, including advertising studentships, handling inquiries, processing applications, and coordinating interviews and open days.
• MRes and PhD Support: Act as first point of contact for CDT students, coordinate training courses, and ensure accurate record-keeping
• Financial Administration: Monitor budgets, manage accounts, process expenses, and liaise with finance offices and industrial partners.
• Project Coordination and Meetings: Organize board meetings, issue agendas and minutes, resolve issues, and contribute to reviews.
• Events and Marketing: Coordinate events, manage budgets, update marketing material, and liaise with stakeholders.

We are looking for a candidate who is:

• Highly organized with experience in project administration
• A confident communicator with both internal and external stakeholders, including students
• Comfortable with budgets, purchasing, and other financial processes
• Positive and conscientious in their approach to work, with a well-developed sense of responsibility
• A team-player who is also able to work autonomously

About us:

The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Sustainable Chemical Technologies: A Systems Approach (CSCT) is an EPSRC-funded centre at the ÀÙË¿ÊÓƵ that will train around 70 PhD students in five cohorts, hosted within the Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC). The CDT will operate in close partnership with our Swindon-based Innovation Centre for Applied Sustainable Technologies (iCAST), a £17M partnership for innovation and translation of research that has established a cluster of over 100 sustainable technology companies and will provide a dynamic innovation-focused context for PhD training in the region.

The Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change integrates physical, social and systems sciences at Bath and develops leaders in tackling critical sustainability issues. The Institute aims to deliver novel chemical technologies and robust behavioural solutions, brought together through whole system evaluation to reframe problems and create transformative innovation in sustainability and climate change.

Additional info:

For information enquiries about this role, please contact the CDT Manager, Ms Amanda Crowe, akc61@bath.ac.uk.

What we can offer you:

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, so we 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 commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• 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

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

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Closing Date: 06 Jul 2025

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £30,805 to £37,174

This role has responsibility for delivering technical support in the research group, working closely with two research associates delivering on the above projects, and ensuring that key deliverables are realised within the projects. This will include:

• Support with delivery of sampling campaigns at integrated constructed wetlands for collection of water, sediment and plant samples.
• Provision of general lab/fieldwork technical support within the project, including processing of wastewater (influent and effluent), solids (sludge, sediments, and plants), and river waters.
• Support with processing mass spectrometry data.
• Close collaboration with other members of staff in the centre, postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.

The Technical Specialist will join the , encompassing both research and doctoral training. Training will be provided.

About the Centre

We’re working to transform public and environmental health management, establishing the first WBE Urban Living Lab facility; a state-of-the-art digital water sensing platform, training base and ideas hub. The centre combines sensing, mathematical modelling, data analytics and informatics with epidemiology and public engagement tools to provide low-cost and real-time community-wide testing of population health and the environment. 

Our ambition is to provide a practical roadmap for an early-warning system platform, co-produced with regional and national stakeholders to serve as a sentinel and multi-generation testing site for research and innovation. This platform will enable testing of public health and environmental interventions focussed on increasing community resilience to disease, pollution and climate change impacts. 

Additional notes:

The position is available to start as soon as possible and is offered for a fixed term of two years.

The successful candidate will hold relevant qualifications at A level/degree level or experience working in a relevant field.

For informal enquiries contact Prof. Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern (b.kasprzyk-hordern@bath.ac.uk) or Franciszek Bydalek (fab52@bath.ac.uk)

What we can offer you:

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, so we 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 commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

• 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

We are committed to continually expanding our benefits to better support you and enhance your experience with us. Find out more about our benefits.

Find out from our staff what makes the ÀÙË¿ÊÓƵ a great place to work. Follow us and on X for more information.

Closing Date: 15 Jun 2025

Department: Technical & Experimental

Salary: £30,805 to £37,174