Widening Participation Officer

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham City University Full time

**Location**:

- City Centre Campus (Millennium Point)**Salary**:

- £30,102 to £32,721 per annum- Permanent**Post Type**:

- Full Time**Release Date**:

- 20 March 2024**Closing Date**:

- 23.59 hours BST on Wednesday 03 April 2024**Interview Date**:

- Tuesday 23 April 2024**Reference**:

- 032024-159Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to work, right in the heart of the UK’s second city. We have an exciting role to add to our Student Recruitment team, supporting with the delivery of our Widening Participation activity. This role will suit an individual with some experience of working within the area of Widening Participation.

You will be responsible for delivery and administration of the University’s Widening Participation projects, working within a small team of officers and assistants. The projects are diverse and exciting and involve working alongside young people of all ages, working to ensure that BCU is situated as a market leader in our Widening Participation (WP) recruitment activity. You will help to develop the position of BCU as “the University for Birmingham”.

You will support the WP and Partnerships Manager in delivering the WP and Partnerships strategy, ensuring that relationships with key partner organisations and initiatives align with the strategic objectives of the University and the department.
- Experience of working in WP or working with young people is desired.
- Experience of project delivery and working with key stakeholders
- Experience of delivering presentations and/or workshops
- Strong verbal and written communication skills

With around 24,000 students from 80 countries, Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student-focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state-of-the-art facilities, first-rate staff, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance is producing some of the country’s most employable graduates.

We have contributed £270 million into the regional economy and support thousands of jobs in the area. We're investing £260 million in our estate, including a major expansion of our city centre campus at Eastside, providing students with an enviable range of facilities. The Complete University Guide ranked us as a top 30 UK university for spending on facilities in 2015.

Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we will work with each other. Our core values are Excellence, People focused, Partnership working and Fairness and integrity.

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