Access & Participation Officer
4 days ago
Access & Participation Officer
Fixed term (minimum 12 months)
- Bristol
- £32,425 - £34,084
- Plus generous civil service defined benefit pension
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. We aim to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
These roles lie in the Access, Inclusion and Skills directorate (AIS) and we’re looking for skilled, committed people to develop and deliver project and policy work around our regulatory objective, ‘all students from all backgrounds, with the ability and potential to benefit from higher education, should be supported to access, succeed in and progress from higher education’.
With a new
- Director
at our helm and new
- Government guidance
in place, this is an exciting time to join the AIS. We are looking for people who want to use their skills to help drive forward changes in higher education providers by being able to contribute to the delivery of complex programmes of work and developing policy areas.
Although the primary regulatory function of AIS is to regulate
- Access and Participation Plans
(APPs), we also have teams focussing on the skills agenda; equality, diversity and inclusion; funding and school outreach. Once appointed your initial assignment will be within one of these areas, but opportunities exist to develop by working on a variety of projects across AIS and the OfS.
You will have your own designated work areas, taking responsibility for managing your own workload to deliver defined pieces of work whilst supporting more senior colleagues to deliver results. You’ll be involved in internal and external stakeholder management engagement, including liaison with higher education providers, key third sector organisations and colleagues across the OfS.
More information can be found in the AIS section at
- Careers - Office for Students
About you - person specification
Knowledge and Learning- Commitment to developing own knowledge and understanding of relevant work area and how this supports the delivery of wider organisational objectives and use this to contributes to discussions-
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to share intelligence in a particular area of expertise-
- Collate, understand, interpret and use data, information and research from a range of sources. Use this to ensure effective engagement with stakeholdersPlanning- Manages key processes and projects independently, often with competing pressures or challenging stakeholders-
- Ability to deliver discrete projects effectively, prioritising own workload and working flexibly to meet competing and changing demands, including implementing appropriate project methodologies (PB7)-
- Supports the delivery of key processes and projects independently, often with competing pressures or challenging stakeholders, proactively managing and organising your own workload-
- Improves and implements processes, supporting change to happenCommunications- Effective communication skills to develop high quality and professional relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders-
- Demonstrates written and verbal communication that is clear and succinct-
- Ability to synthesize complex information to produce clear, credible advice that reflects and supports Directorate and OfS goals.Relationships- Able to act as mentor for other colleagues, providing clear guidance on good working practices-
- Working in a team, supporting others to deliver as required-
- Develops and shares expertise and learns from expertise of others-
- Ability to build professional relationships with internal and external stakeholdersAt interview we will be looking for you to demonstrate:
- How you develop your knowledge of a new area of work-
- Improving and implement projects and processes, supporting change to happen-
- Evidence of working independently to deliver projects, involving all aspects of project lifecycle, often with competing pressures or challenging stakeholders-
- Using regulatory (or other) levers available to inform development and implementation of work, including judgements, assessments, and recommendation-
- A good understanding of current research, data, legislation, and broad data and information landscape for policy and practice areas relating to our work and/or Higher Education more generally-
- An ability to communicates clearly and fluently to a range of audiences using appropriate evidence, style and language including under a range of circumstancesJob Description for further information
Delivery and working in a team- Flexible, agile and collaborative working, including working with staff and teams in other directoratesPolicy development- Contribution to the development of (potentially complex) policy according to the strategic priorities and directorate context.-
- Contribution to the development and implementation of funding or asse
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