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The OfS is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do so by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.
The higher education sector in England is complex and diverse and the OfS’s approach to regulation recognises this. Our new strategy signals a shift from an organisation in a start-up phase to an established regulator that understands its regulatory tools and how best to use them to shape incentives across the sector we regulate. We work to ensure that students in England enjoy higher education provision that is high quality; that their access to opportunity, success and progression is not limited by background, location or characteristics; and that providers are well and sustainably led.
As Head of Funding Policy and Operations, you will be accountable for the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the OfS’s approach to the delivery of its funding policy and funding operations. You will have responsibility for delivering effective funding in practice, implementing arrangements for effective decision-making on funding allocations, and leading the development of funding capabilities and agile working of the Funding team.
In discharging your responsibilities, you will ensure funding allocation decisions are taken on the basis set out in the OfS scheme of delegation and be able to translate the OfS’s approach to funding into effective operational systems as these relate to individual providers. You will also work collaboratively across the directorate to embed funding operations to achieve this aim.
Key to success in this role will be your ability to develop, lead and manage a team in a complex and changing environment, make reliable judgements about funding allocations at pace and have the ability to design, implement and communicate effective funding operations.
You will quickly adapt to working within the higher education sector and understand the key issues and challenges facing the sector. How we do things is as important to us as what we do and your approach will be underpinned by our values of Ambition, Openness, Learning and Diversity.
We are interested in hearing from candidates with experience of working in similar roles, who have significant experience of overseeing policy and turning it into deliverable funding operations, possibly from within the higher education sector, or those who have similar experience from other regulators, or similar public sector funding policy and/or delivery backgrounds at a senior level.
Working for us
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.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week.
This is an exciting time to join a rapidly transforming organisation that works to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. To find out more about the OfS, please visit our website.
To apply, please visit our website via the button below.
Closing date for applications is 23:55 on Sunday 15 December 2024.
We will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application after 6 January 2025.
Candidates through to the next stage will be tasked with a written exercise to be completed by 19 January 2025.
The final stage will be an interview either week beginning 27 January or 3 February 2025.
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