Access and Participation Officer

4 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Office for Students Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 310898**Salary**:

- £34,695 - £36,470- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Fixed Term**Length of employment**:

- Minimum 12 months**Business area**:

- Regulation, skills, equalities and funding**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

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About the job

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Location
- BS34 8SRAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Office for Students 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. We currently have opportunities with the Regulation Directorate, in an area where our focus is on improving equality of opportunity, a crucial part of the OfS’ role in driving up quality in the Higher Education sector.

Join us and you’ll have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills working in areas across the directorate including regulation, skills, equalities and funding. Collaborating and supporting colleagues to develop our Access and Participation policy, work on the assessment for funding programmes, engage with a spectrum of stakeholders and develop your project management skills whilst working on a range of activities.

**Job description**:
Identifying and promoting effective practice in relation to access, participation and outcomes, you’ll use information to prepare a range of formal and informal documents that will then be used to share best practice with our stakeholders.

Negotiating and influencing stakeholders to ensure team objectives are delivered, we’ll also expect you to work collaboratively and creatively with your colleagues to resolve a wide range of competing demands.

**Person specification**:
With the ability to think logically and use different types of information to relating to policy positions and strategy, you should be ready to make sound, balanced judgements based on evidence.

Capable of disseminating knowledge of Access and Participation activities throughout the Directorate, you will have confidence in sharing your area(s) of expertise while learning from others.

You demonstrate good awareness of internal and external factors which may affect your own areas of work, and possess a good understanding of links to other work areas and priorities.

Always ready to identify and manage risks to plans and delivery of your own and wider work plans, you are able to suggest solutions when issues arise.

Thriving in a fast-moving environment while consistently delivering to a high standard, you’ll have a confident and co-operative approach to everything you do and be ready to work effectively with people at all levels to build positive working relationships.

An influencer and communicator with good writing skills, your ability to synthesize information will allow you to produce clear, credible advice that reflects and supports our goals.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,695, Office for Students contributes £9,367 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).- Once thi

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