The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop the Society’s activities with a particular focus on membership and research funding.
- Job Title: Membership and Office Administrator (part-time)
- Contract: 0.8 FTE (4 days a week). Fixed Term. 12 months in the first instance, with potential for extension to permanent
- Salary: UCL Non-clinical pay scale: spine point 16, currently £31,904 including London weighting at full time, pro-rated to £25,523 at 0.8FTE
- Location: Hybrid – remote and with some attendance in the RHS Office (UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT).
- Application closing date: 23:59 BST, Monday 8 September 2025
- Start Date: As soon as possible after interviews; interviews are expected to take place in week commencing Monday 6 October 2025
Further details of the Membership and Office Administrator role are available here, with applications made via the RHS Jobs Portal.
About the Royal Historical Society
The Society is the UK’s foremost learned society and membership organisation for the support and promotion of historians and historical research and teaching in higher education and related sectors. As a registered charity, founded in 1868 and now with more than 6,500 Fellows and Members, the Society champions the discipline of history within higher education and well beyond. Our remit is to support historians of all kinds to undertake and encourage historical research and understanding; to advocate for history and its practitioners; to represent history as a discipline and historians as a group; and to promote greater equality and representation within historical practice.
The Society is governed by its Council, led by the RHS President, with day-to-day operations undertaken by a small professional Office staff, based at University College London. Other members of RHS Office staff include: the Director; Membership and Programmes Manager (line manager for this role); Governance and Finance Officer; and an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (currently being recruited).
About this role
We seek a highly capable Membership and Office Administrator to support the work of the Society’s professional Office based at University College London. The role will focus primarily on supporting and communicating with the Society’s extensive membership, which largely comprises practising historians in higher education and other sectors, as well as prospective members, applicants for the Society’s extensive research funding programme, and members of the public.
The role holder will report to the Membership and Programmes Manager and will also assist in the running of the Society’s research funding schemes. This is a hybrid position which supports home / remote working as the predominant model. As part of a small Office team, the post holder will in addition assist with the administration and efficient running of the Office on a daily basis. The Society offers an employer contributor pension of 12% and a friendly, supportive and highly professional working environment.
Further details and making an application
Having read the Job Description and Specifications, please submit your application via the RHS Jobs Portal by the closing date: 23:59 GMT on Monday 8 September 2025.