Senior Statutory Returns Manager
Birmingham City University – Planning and Performance Department
Location: Joseph Priestley Building
Closing Date: 23.59 hours BST on Sunday 14 April 2024
Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study right in the heart of the vibrant city. We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Statutory Returns Manager to join our dynamic team within the Planning and Performance Department.
About the Role:
The Senior Statutory Returns Manager is responsible for overseeing the delivery of student data returns, ensuring the accuracy of data and timely submission, whilst remaining compliant with statutory regulations. This role will be responsible for the student return process configuration and will manage a small team of data quality experts producing exception reports and diagnostic tools to identify data quality issues and advise on data compliance.
The post holder will contribute to the strategic development and enhancement of student record systems, ensuring statutory return requirements are accurately communicated and translated into formal requirement specifications by working collaboratively with developers.
What’s in it for you?
In return for your dedication and hard work, you will benefit from ongoing opportunities for personal and professional development, as well as the following key benefits:
- Opportunity for hybrid working.
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays and closure periods).
- An attractive direct contribution pension scheme, or the option to retain LGPS for existing and previous members.
- Wellbeing advice and support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Staff Benefits: Non-Pay Benefits: Birmingham City University (bcu.ac.uk).
- A supportive and collaborative culture and work environment, rooted in BCU’s values.
Main Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of data quality analysts with responsibility for ensuring that statutory student data returns are completed in a timely and accurate manner.
- Ensure all work is done in line with external requirements, including the Data Futures Student, Aggregate Offshore return, Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES), and contributing to Annual Financial Return and Transparent Approach to Costing.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to internal stakeholders regarding external data return impact on the University’s reported performance and ensuring that returned data is optimised as well as fully compliant.
- Oversee maintenance of the student return system configuration and parameters
- Compile statutory returns assurance reports and documentation in support of sign-off by Accountable Officer (VC).
- Work closely with other members of the Senior Team in PPD to design and deliver departmental strategy and promote team cohesion.
Key Requirements:
The successful candidate will have:
- Educated to a Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.
- Project Management Qualification would be desirable.
- Experience of managing small teams.
- Experience of managing quality assurance processes in a regulated industry.
- Experience of delivering statutory returns in Higher Education and configuring the statutory returns process in SITS student record system is highly desirable.
- Advanced data analysis capability of large complex datasets, including advanced Excel and SQL and/or other data extraction and analysis tools.
Interviews for this role will take place on Thursday 9 May and Friday 10 May.
The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.
Further details: Job Description
OUR VISION
Birmingham City University is growing in quality and standing, with an academic STEAM agenda at the heart of our ambitions. We are transforming the lives of students and their communities, and want outstanding people to join us in taking us on the next stage of our exciting journey.
Our students learn through doing. They are empowered throughout their educational journey, achieving significant educational gain and personal transformation.
There has never been a better time to join us. Come and be part of the next exciting stage of our journey.
ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY
At the heart of our 2025 Strategy is our mission is to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.
Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.
OUR STAFF COMMUNITY
Birmingham is home to a rich and diverse range of communities. Our students reflect this rich cultural mix, and we are continuing to work to make sure that this is also reflected in our broader university community.
Birmingham City University values the quality and diversity of our staff. Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we work with each other. Our core values are we create opportunity, we think differently, and we build community.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, continuously reviewing and improving our policies, practices, and procedures to ensure that we are promoting these in all aspects of our operations. We believe that by working together, combining our many different backgrounds and life experiences, we will empower each other to reach our full potential.
We hold an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our commitment to improving employment practices for the advancement of gender equality.
Our University is located in one of the most culturally rich and diverse Cities in the UK, and it is our ambition to be the University for Birmingham and the surrounding region. The events of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we are committed to removing the institutional barriers that our staff and students face and improve the representation, progression and success of staff and students from all backgrounds within higher education. To demonstrate this, we have signed up to the Race Equality Charter to show our commitment.
Birmingham City University has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award in the Stonewall Index and have entered the Top 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. Meanwhile, we are Disability Confident (Committed) and are on an exciting journey to advance our University to progress through the Disability Confident scheme.
We are also a Mindful Employer, which means we are committed to supporting the mental health and well-being of our staff, and we have also signed up to the Mental Health Charter led by student mental health charity Student Minds. Furthermore, we are signed up to The Technician Commitment - a university and research institution initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Foundation – aiming to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research.
WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM
The youngest city in Europe with under-25s accounting for nearly 40% of the population, Birmingham is a city full of energy and enthusiasm and is a great place to live and work.
Based in the heart of England, the city is easily accessible by road, rail and air. Birmingham New Street station has recently undergone major redevelopment, while the city is at the heart of the high-speed rail network, HS2. HS2 will provide new rapid rail travel connecting Birmingham City Centre to London and the rest of the network from the new Curzon Street Station – adjacent to Birmingham City University’s City Centre Campus – and will be one of the most environmentally friendly stations in the world.
The city’s appetite for progression is boundless, and it has been championing innovation since the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, reflected in Birmingham City University’s new STEAMhouse building which opened in October 2022 and is home to an inter-disciplinary community of entrepreneurs, businesses, academic researchers, and students offering a wealth of support to companies of all sizes to boost growth through innovation to address commercial and societal challenges.
Birmingham is brimming with great theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham City University Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, as well as beautiful historical buildings and the iconic Library of Birmingham. It also has amazing concert and sporting venues including Edgbaston Cricket ground, which Birmingham City University has a long-standing partnership with. It is also home to the Alexander Stadium, which is the stunning new home for Birmingham City University’s sport courses. The Stadium was one of the main event spaces for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022, which saw the eyes of the world on the city, and Birmingham City University staff and students played pivotal roles - including designing the official medals for winning athletes.
Birmingham’s vibrant dining scene offers something for all tastes, including Michelin star restaurants, Spiceal Street at the Bullring, the Chinese Quarter, and the famous Balti Triangle.
The city also provides a great place to shop, being home the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous home of British bling - the Jewellery Quarter, which is home to Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery.
From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the beautiful arcades and independents, to the city’s historic markets in Digbeth, the shops in Birmingham offer a plethora of choice.
BCU Values underpin how we work in achieving the ambitions set out in our Strategy and Priorities, and are the principles that unite the way we work together and for our students.
| Location: | Birmingham |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £50,321 to £54,699 per annum |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Placed On: | 25th March 2024 |
| Closes: | 14th April 2024 |
| Job Ref: | 032024-143 |
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