HR Business Partner & IAAPS People Lead (CH13741)

This is an excellent opportunity to take on a HR Business Partner role in a part-time role, working in a supportive and respected team, in a vacancy which has arisen from the successful progression of the current postholder. 

As an HR Business Partner, you will have the key consultative and partnering role to specified client departments and services within the organisation. Your role will focus on strategic HR, providing resources, being accountable for service delivery and building relationships to enable the delivering mission and objectives set out by the organisation and developing the capability and culture. The HR Business Partner is a key member of senior leadership teams in the services that you will partner and contributes strongly to their organisational strategy, management and output.

As an HR Business Partner, you may, at any time, be expected to undertake the roles of strategic planner, facilitator, trainer, coach, expert advisor, project manager or critical friend, working very closely with other teams from across HR. This role includes providing the critical strategic HR input to the board of a sub-company to the University. 

Underpinned by strong employee relations expertise and interpersonal skills, you will need to be able to develop highly effective partnership relations with key staff, understand the business of the different services that you partner, and be able to identify and adapt the critical HR solutions to meet very different organisational needs and ensure their delivery. 

This role offered on a part time (21.9 hours per week) fixed term basis with an expected end date of 31/12/2027.

To find out more please contact Peter Eley, Deputy Director (HR Services) 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 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. 

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:

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

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.

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

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Closing Date: 03 Jul 2026

Department: Management, Specialist and Administration

Salary: £47,389 to £56,535 pro rota per annum

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