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Tertiary Education Director

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Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council Full time
Job Summary

The Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Chief Executive Officer to lead our organization in shaping the future of tertiary education in Scotland. As a key strategic leader, you will be responsible for driving our mission to sustain a world-leading system of tertiary education, research, and innovation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Strategic Leadership: Provide visionary leadership to our organization, setting a clear direction and inspiring a culture of collaborative leadership and teamwork.
  • Advice and Guidance: Offer high-quality advice and guidance to our Board to support good governance, effective oversight, and strategic direction-setting.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with government, funded bodies, and a range of partners, including employers and industry stakeholders, to secure change, reform, and impact.
  • Expertise and Authority: Establish our organization as the expert, authoritative source of information, insight, advice, and evidence to inform policy-making, funding, and budget decisions.
  • Culture and Values: Be a role model for our organization's ambition and values, leading and inspiring a culture of inclusive management, diversity, continuous improvement, good employee engagement, and union relations.
  • Change Management: Lead and manage change within our organization to shape and deliver the government's reform ambitions as outlined by the Post-school education and skills reform legislation consultation.
  • Accountability: Be accountable to the Scottish Parliament and the Board for our organization's expenditure, ensuring effective governance, systems, processes, and people are in place to demonstrate the effective stewardship of public funds.
  • Performance and Risk Management: Ensure robust performance and risk management arrangements are in place to support the achievement of our aims and objectives and facilitate comprehensive reporting to the Board, the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament, and the wider public.
Requirements
  • Leadership: You must be a confident and visible leader, with the ability to lead, motivate, build, and develop an organization with a significant budget and diverse range of functions, through a time of change, continually improving, delivering results, and with the capacity and capability to respond to new responsibilities.
  • Resource Management: Experience of being responsible for a large budget or distributing significant funds, while demonstrating sound governance arrangements to secure accountability and best value for public investment.
  • Influence, Authority, and Integrity: Excellent communication skills in a range of contexts and mediums, smart, with good personal impact and integrity, and the ability to develop trusted relationships with a range of partners and stakeholders, and upholding the principles and practice of good governance and high ethical standards.
  • Judgement and Political Astuteness: The ability to advise the Board and the Scottish Government on the key elements of our mission and alignment with government priorities with sound judgement, the ability to deploy good evidence, and a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities.
  • Personal Effectiveness and Delivery: Highly motivated to make a positive personal impact and secure results, able to handle a range of internal and external pressures, while acting as a role model and ambassador for the values of the organization.
  • Knowledge of the Education and Research Context: Strong understanding of the context in which Scottish further and higher education is operating and the role of education and research in driving social, cultural, and economic benefits.
  • Deep Personal Commitment to Advancing Diversity and Inclusion: At all levels within the organization and within the tertiary education system more broadly.
Benefits

Alongside your salary of £128,000, Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Council contributes £37,081 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Normal full-time hours of work are 35 per week. We will consider flexible working arrangements.

Annual leave entitlement of days pro-rata, rising to 30 days pro-rata after 2 years' continuous service. Public and privilege holiday entitlement of 13 days pro-rata.

Annual pay review: approved within the framework of the Scottish Government's Public Sector Pay Policy.

Eligibility to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with its low member contribution rates and generous employer contributions, giving you a secure, inflation-proof pension for life with no investment uncertainty.

Support for continuous professional development, including comprehensive support for learning and professional development, and access to the Civil Service-Learning curriculum.

Support for health and wellbeing, including generous occupational sick pay, free access to confidential advice and support through our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Special Leave (paid and unpaid), a contribution to learning outside work through our Lifelong Learning Fund, free winter flu vaccination, and access to occupational health support.

We provide support to SFC employees with Volunteering Days.

Support for travel to and from work, including a salary sacrifice cycle loan scheme, cycle storage and shower facilities, an interest-free loan for bus or rail season tickets, and free office car parking for employees on a first-come basis.