Senior Timetabling Officer
Company
Location
Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£33,951 - £37,694 a year
Job Highlights
- Lead the delivery of accurate academic timetables and manage module selection processes for sites outside Bath, ensuring efficiency and quality service.
- Ideal candidates should possess strong organisational skills, experience in timetabling or similar roles, and the ability to analyse complex data effectively.
- This full-time position is based in Bath BA2 9BN, with opportunities for process improvement and collaboration with various academic stakeholders.
Job Requirements/Description
Join our Timetabling and Module Selection team as a Senior Timetabling Officer, taking a lead role in delivering accurate, effective academic timetables and module selection processes across our sites outside of Bath.
You’ll work with academic and professional services colleagues to solve complex scheduling challenges, improve processes and help shape how we deliver a consistent, high-quality service across our growing network of locations.
Salary Grade 6 - Starting from £33,951 rising to £37,694 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Additional information
Interview Date - Friday 16th October 2026
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Description
Join our Timetabling and Module Selection team as a Senior Timetabling Officer, taking a lead role in delivering accurate, effective academic timetables and module selection processes across our sites outside of Bath.
You’ll work with academic and professional services colleagues to solve complex scheduling challenges, improve processes and help shape how we deliver a consistent, high-quality service across our growing network of locations.
About the Role
- Lead academic timetabling for sites outside Bath, creating accurate, clash-free timetables and making effective use of available teaching space.
- Manage module selection and student data, ensuring module records, diets and student allocations are accurate and support registration, assessment, progression and fee processes.
- Resolve complex timetabling and module allocation issues, including non-standard cases such as progression, reassessment, appeals and trailing modules.
- Work closely with stakeholders across academic departments, Estates, partner sites and professional services to gather requirements, resolve competing priorities and deliver effective outcomes.
- Improve and standardise processes, helping to integrate sites outside Bath into central University timetabling and module selection systems and identifying opportunities for greater efficiency. Provide specialist advice and support, responding to timetabling and module-related enquiries and developing guidance, training and knowledge resources. Support and manage team members, including providing day-to-day guidance to the Timetabling Support Officer and contributing to workload planning.
- Analyse data and produce reports to support decision-making, service improvement and the ongoing development of timetabling and module selection processes.
About You
- Experience of academic timetabling, particularly within a Higher Education environment.
- Experience of using timetabling software, ideally TimeEdit or a similar system.
- Experience of working with databases and/or student record systems, ideally SITS or similar
- Experience of contributing to process improvement or implementing new systems and processes within a changing operational environment.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to investigate issues, interpret information and identify effective solutions.
- Experience of delivering training, guidance or support to staff and stakeholders in relation to systems, processes or services.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of working effectively with a range of stakeholders, including at senior level.
- Strong organisational, planning and prioritisation skills, with excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage competing demands in a busy environment.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, demonstrating initiative, flexibility and a proactive approach to improving processes and delivering a high-quality service
For further information on the essential and desirable skills we’re looking for, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Additional Information
Salary Grade 6 - Starting from £33,951 rising to £37,694 per annum
The salary range shows the potential maximum pay progression in addition to any annual inflationary increase to your pay. Please note that our default position is to appoint into the lower end of the range, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
Additional information
- Some out of hours working will be occasionally required, including some evenings and specific weekends during the academic year (such as Graduation and Registration)
- Opportunities for taking annual leave during peak times of year (especially September/October) will be limited, and leave at other times will need to be assessed across the team so that service provision is not impacted
Interview Date - Friday 16th October 2026
Staff Benefits
We offer a wide range of great benefits at BSU, including
- Generous pension scheme (Local Government Pension Scheme/Teacher's Pension Scheme). This is a defined benefit pension scheme which pays members a secure income for life, post-retirement
- Enhanced paid leave - 41 - 46 days depending on the role (Full Time) - more details here: https://apphub.bathspa.ac.uk/StaffBenefits
- Family friendly policies including hybrid working, flexible work environment, on-site nursery, and a sector-leading enhanced maternity scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme which offers access to on-demand GP appointments, wellbeing support and advice, and access to counselling
- Transport schemes including Electric Vehicle Scheme and Cycle to Work
- Wide range of discounts and financial benefits, accessed through and easy-to-use app
For further details about all our staff benefits, have a look at our rewards page: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/work-at-bath-spa/rewards-and-benefits/
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
About Bath Spa University
At Bath Spa University, we believe in the power of education to break down barriers to opportunity and to transform lives. We are the Professionally Creative for the future. Professional Creativity transcends subject disciplines, and is just as important for our sciences, education, business and law subjects as it is for our sector leading creative industries provision. We connect learners, staff and external partners with applied research and innovation. We power inclusive growth through skills development and practice based, innovation – intensive learning for all.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
Our main Newton park campus is based in stunning countryside just a few minutes from a World Heritage City. We are also proud to offer courses to students at our other campuses around Bath, and in London at our Canary Wharf and Hackney sites.
An impressive 84% of our staff said they would recommend the University to a friend as a good place to work.
We are a community of colleagues, striving for excellence to ensure students thrive. Our values are:
- Respect
- Inclusivity
- Collaboration
- Sustainability
We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community. We foster inclusivity, celebrating and respecting differences. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and genders. We consider our recruitment practices to be comprehensive and unbiased; ensuring fairness, transparency, and equal opportunity for all.
Information about visa sponsorship
Information about visa sponsorship
Under the 2006 Immigration, Nationality and Asylum Act the University has a duty to prevent illegal working by carrying out document checks on all potential employees to confirm that a person has the right to work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
Please note that the University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are entitled to live and work in the UK.
For some vacancies (those requiring specific specialist skills or in shortage occupations) we may be able to obtain a certificate of sponsorship for a suitably qualified applicant. Due to the limited availability of sponsorship resources, not all vacancies in this category will be eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship. Sponsorship eligibility will be assessed on a role-by-role basis and is normally limited to positions that meet the University's workforce and immigration criteria.
In light of this, for most vacancies it will be unlikely that permission to work in the UK would be granted.
For further information please click here to visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Company
Location
Bath BA2 9BN
Employment Hours
New Jobs
Salary
£33,951 - £37,694 a year