Procurement Officer

Job details

**Salary**

£31,165 - £34,063

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Job category/type**

Permanent

**Date posted**

21/07/2025

**Job reference**

RR01485

**Contract: Permanent, Full Time**

At City of Bristol College, we deliver transformative education in inclusive and dynamic learning environments and for our employees, this is no different so why not come and join us? With recent investments in our already outstanding facilities, the College has a great deal on offer for you.

One of our key strategic aims is our unrelenting focus on our people-first culture, ensuring you feel valued, empowered, and recognised for your individual contributions and expertise whether that be in a teaching capacity or a professional services team. All colleagues within the College contribute to the success of our students and we actively work to eliminate any barriers at work, ensuring you have the opportunity to thrive.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Officer to join our college community.

**What we offer**:
Our people-first ethos provides a highly supportive, flexible approach to enable you to excel within your role and to reach your full potential. In return, you can expect the following:

- Two-week paid Christmas close down and additional paid time off over Easter on top of a generous holiday entitlement of 26 holiday days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part time roles).
- Membership to the Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 18.0 %
- Paid Volunteering leave (3 days a year)
- Family friendly policies including paid fertility and foster friendly policy
- A menopause policy outlining support available
- A person-centred annual appraisal focusing on your wellbeing and CPD
- Access to a benefits portal including shopping discounts and cycle to work scheme plus lots more
- The 'Right to Disconnect' from work outside of your normal working hours
- A supportive, highly utilised hybrid and flexible working policy
- An Aspiring Leaders programme open to all plus our Management Academy for all management roles covering management skill and internal processes
- Welfare Rooms at all our sites for professional breakout and relaxation spaces
- A bespoke programme of recognition, reward and celebration for colleagues throughout the year to recognise your hard work.

You can have a look here at our Employee Benefits Booklet for even more.

**About your role**:
You will provide support to the Procurement Manager to embed the Procurement Strategy, to deliver sustainable, value for money goods and services from new and existing contracts, whilst remaining compliant with relevant public procurement legislation.

You will support or lead tenders (as appropriate) across a broad range of categories from Facilities, Estates and IT to department/curriculum specific requirements.

You will take responsibility for day-to-day administrative tasks within Procurement.

**Contact us**:
If you would like to find out more about this role, please contact Alastair Jack, the recruiting manager on 0117 3125182 who will be happy to discuss the role in more detail.

**About us**:
We have four main sites across the city with state-of-the-art facilities. Further future investment in our estates is now allowing us to provide the best possible outcomes for our students and local communities, delivered by our fantastic community of colleagues.

At City of Bristol College, we have one goal: to help our students succeed. We offer the widest range of academic and vocational qualifications in the area, with more than 1,000 courses available from entry to degree level and we provide education and training to approximately 10,000 students each year.

More information about the College can be found on our website.

Please see our Job Description, Person Specification, Conditions of Service and Applicant Information for more information about the role and what it’s like to be part of our team.

**A few points to note**:
If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our processes, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best - please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

**Don’t meet every single requirement?**
- We do not engage with recruitment agencies for this role. Any CVs received from agencies will be considered as unsolicited and the property of the City of Bristol College, with no obligation to pay agency fees._

**Closing date: 04 August 2025**

**Interview date: 14 August 2025