Statutory Returns Officer

3 weeks ago

Buckingham, United Kingdom University of Buckingham Full time

**DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Academic Compliance**

**JOB TITLE: Statutory Returns Officer**

**SALARY & HOURS: up to £30,528 - 35 hours per week**

The University of Buckingham has a unique atmosphere, unlike that of any other higher educational institution. Despite being the UK’s smallest university and the only independent university to hold a Royal Charter, Buckingham has staff from over 60 countries, making it a truly distinctive work environment. Whichever of our locations you find yourself working in, you will be sure to feel a part of our friendly community. Our size enables us to foster a very personalised, supportive, inclusive and collaborative environment, with lots of opportunity for development, something which we are very proud of.

The Corporate and Professional Services departments are the cornerstone of the University. They each provide essential and valuable support to both each other and the Academic departments, helping the University to function in the most efficient and productive way, ensuring that the students’ experience is second to none.

**Role Purpose**:
**JOB PURPOSE**

The Statutory Returns Officer is directly accountable to the Assistant Registrar (Academic Compliance) primarily for ensuring the accurate submission of the University’s statutory reporting and returns to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and the monthly Individual Learner Record (ILR) return to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). Post-holders will also support the team in the delivery of the operational aspects of planning, including both regular and ad-hoc internal and external data reporting, student feedback and keeping abreast of regulatory changes to the returns.

**Skills & Experience**:
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- To deliver accurate and timely statutory returns to the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
- To process the monthly ILR return.
- To support accurate and timely internal management reporting of student numbers and progress at University and Faculty level.
- Monitoring of Office for Students (OfS) data dashboard, producing internal reporting from published data sets.
- To support the University's student feedback mechanisms and report on national surveys such as the National Student Survey (NSS).

**EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**

Essential
- Confident Microsoft skills with minimum intermediate or advanced MS Excel
- Excellent attention to detail
- Confident communication and interpersonal skills
- A passion for data with a process-driven work ethic
- Approximately 3 years relevant work experience in a similar role (database, CRM, record management and reporting)

Desirable
- Previous experience of HESA or regulatory reporting and returns
- Knowledge of business analytic/database tools (Power BI, Tableau, Access etc)
- Awareness of the Higher Education sector
- What can we offer you?_

We might be small, but we can still offer plenty of perks In addition to an Aviva Pension scheme, we offer:

- Beautiful working environments across our campuses in Buckingham and Crewe, with plenty of space
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Christmas closure
- On-site gym and exercise classes
- On-site catering facilities
- University bookshop with staff discount (Buckingham)
- Free access to LinkedIn Learning courses
- Free on-site parking
- Excellent opportunities to network and continue learning across a variety of departments
- Nursery on-site at our Crewe campus
- Discount of courses for staff and their families

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