Academic Officer – Professional Programmes in Health Sciences

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangor University; Bangor; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Bangor University’s School of Health Sciences invites an Academic Officer to support outreach, recruitment and selection for Health Education and Improvement Wales funded programmes. You will help integrate students onto professional programmes and coordinate with partners, ensuring a positive applicant and student experience.

The role requires an undergraduate degree, excellent communication, and the ability to work bilingually. Welsh language skills are desirable.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Knowledge of processes associated with recruitment and selection for higher education programmes and professional programmes.
• Project management or marketing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment and selection activities for Health Education Improvement Wales commissioned programmes.
• Deliver sessions to assist integration of students onto professional programmes.
• Lead on organising recruitment meetings and provide updates to programme leads.
• Develop marketing activities with college marketing to support a growing portfolio of programmes.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Welsh desirable

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent

Marketing or project management qualification

Tools

MS Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Academic Officer – Professional Programmes in Health Sciences

Job Number

BU04146

School/Department

School of Health Sciences

Grade

7

Contract Duration

Permanent

Responsible to

Head of School

Closing Date

27-11-2026

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the academic team in all outreach, recruitment and selection activities for a range of programmes commissioned by Health Education and Improvement Wales. The role will also involve the delivery of sessions to support the integration of students on to their professional programme.

The successful candidate will need to understand the roles of a variety of health professional careers and the requirements of our professional programmes that lead to registration with a regulatory body. They will also be an excellent communicator, able to enthuse and inspire prospective and current students, acting as an ambassador for the range of professions.

Candidates will hold an undergraduate degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.

This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

The successful candidate will be expected to commence as soon as possible.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post.

This role will be located on campus at Bangor. Through our Dynamic Working framework, there will also be the option to spend some time working remotely (although remaining in the UK) to support work life balance, which will be discussed further with candidates at interview.

Applications will also be considered to carry out this role on a part-time or job share basis.

Informal enquiries about all posts can be made to Professor Julie Green, Head of School e-mail: [e-mail].

Overview

The School of Health Sciences is an interprofessional school which sits within the College of Medicine and Health and provides medical, psychology, sports science, health and care education and research at Bangor University. The school offers a career-spanning portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and short courses for health and care and allied professionals. It comprises over 100 staff, delivering to more than 900 students from across the health professions including dentistry.

The school works in partnership with health, social and educational care providers through well-established links, this provides a clinical and academic experience for a range of professional programmes. Our portfolio of professional programmes continues to expand. We hold an Athena Swan Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture.

The School Mission Statement reflects our aims to champion and promote excellent health and social care science, research, scholarship, teaching and learning, quality and values with people who use services, practitioners, and stakeholders. To promote language and cultural competence relevant to local, national, and international partners, and to provide an inclusive culture and environment for staff and students within the school.

Bangor’s mission is for a research-led University of and for North Wales, providing transformative learning experiences and nurturing a positive impact on society regionally, nationally, and internationally (Strategy 2030). Across the University, research and teaching are closely inter-linked: almost all research academics teach, ensuring that our students benefit from the knowledge created by our research. In REF2021, 40% of our research is considered 4* or world-leading and 45% is 3* or internationally excellent. 77% of Bangor’s research was scored as 4* or 3* in the last REF in 2014. In REF2021 it has increased to 85%. In REF2021, Bangor is 41st for the proportion of our research environment judged to be world-leading and 46th (out of 129 - excluding six single-subject institutions) in the sector for research.

Here at the School of Health Sciences, we value the partnership we have with students and prioritise support and encouragement for all our students across their differing programmes. The school offers a supportive culture for our less experienced staff to develop their potential and you will be provided with an academic mentor. The successful candidate will also have opportunities to contribute to teaching and learning across the school’s portfolio, if appropriate, including in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Purpose of the Job

The primary purpose of this post is to increase the recruitment of students to the school’s professional programmes, ensuring that targets set by Health Education Improvement Wales and practice partners are achieved. The successful applicant will also work with colleagues to oversee the seamless transition from application to pre-induction and onboarding, ensuring that students have a positive experience throughout.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with the school leadership team and college marketing staff to support the generation of enquiries and conversions to increase the number of applications to the school’s professional programmes.
• Lead on the preparation of reports for internal leadership meetings and HEIW and BCUHB commissioning meetings
• Liaise with the university’s administration team to ensure that the recruitment and selection process is effective and adheres to policy and principles of equality and diversity.
• Organise and lead regular recruitment meetings with programme leads. This will involve providing updates on progress, identifying areas where action is required and supplying feedback from applicants to improve future recruitment initiatives.
• Develop, in partnership with the college marketing team, a range of marketing activities required for a growing and diversifying portfolio of programmes, ensuring that school level activity complements marketing activity at a college and institutional level and delivers a positive ROI.
• Prepare the School’s activities as part of the University Open Days, outreach events and UCAS offer holder days, including postgraduate open days.
• Identify and attend external student recruitment events, reviewing the value of attendance following each event and using this information to inform future activity.
• Act as the marketing lead for the school of health sciences. This will involve representing the school at the college recruitment and marketing task group and chairing/leading the school recruitment and marketing group.
• Work with the Directors of Student Engagement, Senior Tutor and programme leads to support the pre-induction processes, welcome week, and other onboarding activities, ensuring a seamless and high-quality student experience
• In conjunction with programme leads identify interventions which could reduce student attrition rates and implement as agreed.
• Highlight to prospective students the attraction of a career in healthcare.

Administrative and Wider Contribution duties will include:

• Undertake an active role in mentoring less experienced members of staff within the College/School.
• Undertake other administrative duties and responsibilities as directed by the Head of School (e.g. membership of School boards and task groups, addressing/supporting undergraduate and postgraduate student experience, contributing to community engagement).

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• To participate in performance review and developmental activities.
• To comply with the University’s equality policies and statements, Dignity at Work and Study Policy and the University’s Welsh Language Scheme.
• To maintain a general and legal duty of care in relation to health, safety and wellbeing and must take all reasonable steps to ensure a safe and healthy working environment for him/herself and for other members of staff, students and visitors affected by his/her actions or inactions.
• To comply with all applicable health and safety policies, procedures and risk assessments.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Knowledge of processes associated with recruitment and selection for higher education programmes and professional programmes.
• Project management or marketing qualification.

Experience/Knowledge

• A sound knowledge of contemporary policy and practice in professional regulation.
• Experience of developing and implementing promotional /recruitment campaigns.
• A willingness to incorporate innovative approaches to open day activities.
• An understanding and appreciation of the role of HEIW.

Skills/Abilities

• The ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines.
• The capability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with an ability to engage effectively and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• High level presentation skills.
• The ability to develop and maintain internal and external networks to facilitate the recruitment process.
• Demonstrable computer skills, including MS Office, PowerPoint, Excel. This could also include use of Blackboard and other on-line learning platforms.
• Ability to motivate and engender enthusiasm amongst potential applicants for a range of professional programmes.
• Commitment to the delivery of an excellent student experience.
• Experience of report writing.
• The ability to use a variety of social media platforms.

Other

• An appreciation of the bilingual context of healthcare delivery and University education across North Wales.
• Able to travel across north Wales to meet with education providers and our two campuses.
• The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If applicants are not able to speak / write in Welsh at present, there are many opportunities to learn if the successful candidate wishes to do so.
• Knowledge of the compulsory education, further education and higher education HE sectors and UCAS application system.

General

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds.

We strive to develop a workforce from all sections of the community regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, trans identity, relationship status, religion or belief, caring responsibilities, or age. We promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language through our progressive Welsh Language Policy. We comply with the Welsh Language Standards and are committed to equality of opportunity. You are welcome to apply for any job in English or Welsh and all applications submitted will be treated equally.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

We are a member of Advance HE's Athena SWAN Gender Equality charter and hold a Silver award in recognition of our commitment to and progress towards gender equality within the University's policies, practices, and culture. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

All members of staff have a duty to ensure their actions are in line with the overall environmental aims of the University and minimise their environmental impact.

All offers are made subject to proof of eligibility to work in the UK and receipt of satisfactory references.

We have a legal responsibility to ensure that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start working for us. When you apply for this post you will be required to explain the basis upon which you believe you will able to live and work in the UK legally on the commencement date of the role should your application be successful. If you do not have the right to work freely in any position in the UK already, any offer of employment we will make to you will be subject to you obtaining a right to work visa. The following link provides information on the various visa routes into employment and the eligibility requirements (including switching visa status where permissible) https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas . If you are successful in your application we will discuss visa options with you at the time of making the offer of employment.

Please note that, in the event of applications being received from candidates on the University's Redeployment Register with a reasonable skills match to the post specification, these applicants will be given prior consideration.

Disclosure & Barring Service

This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service check.

As Bangor University meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, all applicants who are offered employment will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) before the appointment is confirmed. This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. DBS checks will be updated every 3 years.

Candidates should note that the University uses an external Umbrella body to process DBS checks. As such you should be aware that, if successful in your application, your name and e-mail contact details will be shared with the Umbrella body in order that they may contact you to start the application process.