Head of Student Pathways and Progression

2 weeks ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Office for Students Full time

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

- 228841**Salary**:

- £71,198 - £75,084- We are an ALB rather than Civil Service. If you join us from the Civil Service, your pension will travel with you but your continuous service and holiday accrual will not.**Grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Bristol, FiltonAbout the job

**Summary**:
The Office for Students is here to make sure every student, no matter what background they’re from, gets the opportunities in higher education they need and deserve.

We are responsible for ensuring universities and colleges are doing all they can to support learners from all backgrounds, especially the most disadvantaged, to access and succeed in higher education, and for making sure that the academic experience of students improves their knowledge and skills, allowing graduates to succeed in their chosen careers.

We need a dynamic and proactive team leader, who has a significant understanding of and engagement with the higher education sector, to lead on overseeing the OfS’s role in current and future systems of vocational training and other employment-orientated higher education.

**Job description**:

- Leading on policy on how the OfS’s regulation can enable graduates to contribute to local and national prosperity; OfS’s engagement with Further Education Colleges on “HE in FE”; and the entrance of mature students into higher education.
- Policy and regulation of the government’s policy on the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) and associated regulation.
- Being jointly responsible for a Core Regulation Team (CRT), responsible for all regulatory interactions with a specific group of providers, which includes regular monitoring and may include management of specific events related to those specified providers.

**Responsibilities**:

- This position, based in Bristol, will lead a team responsible for development and delivery of the OfS’s pathways and progression strategy and associated regulation.**Benefits**:

- 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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**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Selection process details**:

- ** You are resilient**

You can synthesise large volumes of complex evidence and public policy discussions to identify the most significant issues our organisation will need to be aware of and respond to, and you can provide both analysis and viable routes forward in a concise and accessible format to other experts and non-experts alike. You enjoy working in environments tackling the most demanding challenges and are willing to keep working at a difficult issue till it is cracked.
- ** You get things done**

You have excellent project and time management skills and the ability to deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment. In previous jobs, you have held responsibility for ensuring challenging projects are delivered on time and to a good standard. You’re very well organised, know how to assess and mitigate risks, and use project management systems that work for you. You’re good at spotting when things aren’t going to plan and can proactively solve problems effectively and efficiently.
- ** You win people over**

People tend to warm to you and respect you - you can build strong relationships internally and externally and share what we are doing, why we care about it, being open and transparent about what we know and what we don’t know. The OfS senior team will be able to rely on you to represent the organisation well on relevant areas of your brief at internal and external meetings, steering groups, committees and government interactions and with students, civil servants, charity leaders and staff, academics and practitioners.
- ** You also have**:

- expertise and experience in regulatory theory and practice, and strategic-level understanding of policy and practice related to higher education’s role in skills, training and wider economic policy.
- experience in the use of a systems approach to the design and delivery of services
- ability to manage, develop and motivate staff teams in a complex environment through a matrix structure
- strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience and interest in communicating research, policy and regulatory action to a variety of non-expert audience

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- re

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