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Our client, a leading London University, is currently looking to recruit a full-time (35 hours per week) Senior Assessments and Faculty Liaison Officer. The post is to start as soon as possible and is a 1 year fixed-term contract. The post will be hybrid working of 1 day per week on site (Wednesday), and the rest remote.
Key responsibilities for this post will include:
- Collaborating with faculties and central teams to maintain accurate, up-to-date assessment records using the Student Records Management System (SITS)
- Importing student assessment data
- Liaising between faculties and central services to provide guidance on the university’s processes, procedures, and regulations
- Supporting the production and issue of all official university certificates and transcripts, and issue of all replacement certificates
- Managing the authentication of degree certificates and transcripts, and the HEDD (education verification) process
To be considered for this role you will have:
- Worked in a similar post previously, ideally from within a higher education setting
- Good working knowledge of the student management system SITS, and processes surrounding this, which can be from areas including: Programme Administration/Student Records/Assessments/Examinations.
- Excellent administrative skills
- Excellent IT skills, including MS Office suite of products and the ability to use bespoke systems
- Knowledge and understanding of GDPR practices regarding confidentiality of personal information
As this post is to start as soon as possible, preference will be for applications with immediate availability, or a short notice. If you are interested in finding out more information about this new opportunity, please register your interest and submit your CV by clicking 'apply now' below.
We are actively recruiting for an interim HR Advisor for an initial fixed term contract of 5 months for a large education organisation. You will be working with our HR Business Partners on Employee Relations cases, providing day to day generalist advice, reviewing some of our policies as well providing support on restructures.
This is a full time role that offer hybrid working of 3 days on site - location South London.
Ideally an ASAP start
Senior Finance Executive
Duration: 3-Months Temporary
Working Hours: 9am-5pm (35 per week)
Hybrid: 1 day per week in the office, due to upcoming office move, there will be weeks this role will be full remote.
Location: Fenchurch Street
Start: ASAP
Pay: £20 per hour plus £2.41 per hour holiday pay (Equivalent to annual salary of £36,400 FTE plus holiday pay)
Charity People are delighted to be working with a leading professional body. They provide globally recognised qualifications and training. Due to a busy period, there is an opportunity to join the Finance Team for a period of 3 months.
As a Senior Finance Executive, you will play a critical role in ensuring the accuracy and completeness of financial records during the year-end audit preparation process. This position requires strong analytical skills and strong attention to detail and ability to work effectively under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
Key Responsibilities:
* Prepare reconciliation schedules for accruals and pre-payments; reconciling deferred income; undertaking balance reconciliations and cash-flow forecasting.
* Reconcile the financial ledgers and ensure all accounting records are accurate and up to date.
* Assist with monthly bank reconciliations.
* Reconcile data between Sage 200 and other sources of information.
* Prepare supporting schedules in preparation for the year-end audit so that a first draft of the annual accounts can be prepared and reviewed with the Financial Controller.
* Prepare P11D's and PAYE Settlement Agreements, ensuring that the correct expenses are recorded and making payments where necessary to ensure compliance with HMRC regulations.
* Work closely with Finance Executive, Finance Assistant, and Finance Manager.
* Assist in additional tasks given by the Financial Controller.
Knowledge and Skills:
* The post holder must be part qualified accountant.
* Be proficient in the use of financial software packages (ideally Sage 200), customer relationship management databases, and Office.
* The post holder must be particularly skilled in the use of Excel - Vlookups, pivot tables, formulae including conditional formatting, tables, what if analysis, cell formatting.
* Have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Have excellent organisational and time management skills and be able to prioritise effectively.
* Have an analytical mindset with the ability to identify and resolve complex issues.
* Have a strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy in the work output.
* Have a strong understanding of accounting principles, financial reporting standards, and audit procedures (ideally experience of preparation of year-end supporting documents).
* Ideally, the post holder will have experience of preparing VAT returns for partially exempt organisations.
How to Apply
Please note we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis, so please apply as soon as possible.
Charity People actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion. We match charity needs with the skills and experience of candidates, irrespective of age, disability (including hidden disabilities), gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. We do this because we know greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the charities we work with.
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Role Overview:
The Talent Set is thrilled to be working with a fantastic membership organisation as they search for a Senior Sales and Marketing Executive to support them for an initial 2–3-month period.
This role is ideal for someone skilled in copywriting, data management/CRM, sales, and account management. Your main tasks will include collaborating with the Events, Marketing, and Membership teams to execute successful strategies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop effective sales and promotional email campaigns for 12-14 annual events, aiming for an annual event revenue of around £1m.
- Craft engaging marketing emails to boost engagement and increase ticket sales.
- Utilise email marketing best practices, such as A/B testing, segmentation, and personalised targeting.
- Proficiency in using email marketing platforms, with a preference for Dot Digital.
- Manage CRM systems to oversee sales pipelines and utilise external data sources and desk research.
- Develop and manage target lists for marketing campaigns.
- Strong administrative skills, particularly in Excel and Word, to manage ticket sales documentation.
- Assist in budgeting, financial mapping, and modelling exercises for ticket sales.
- Handle event bookings and related administration tasks.
- Analyse sales trends, feedback, and market trends, providing regular reports to colleagues and senior management.
- Foster relationships with both members and non-members, understanding their interests and needs to match with our events.
- Generate sales through various communication channels, including email, phone calls, and face-to-face meetings.
- Represent the organisation at events and network with members.
- Develop a high level of understanding of the organisation’s members and events to effectively target and sell events.
- Support the membership and commercial team with ad hoc project-based activities related to member relationship management.
Person Specification:
- Proficiency in CRM systems, particularly Microsoft Dynamics.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel for data management and analysis.
- Self-motivated with a positive attitude and strong work ethic.
- 3-5 years of marketing/sales experience preferred.
- Excellent copywriting skills and the ability to present ideas effectively.
- Organised, methodical, and able to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to influence at all levels.
- Professional and persuasive communication skills.
- Collaborative and consultative approach.
- Knowledge of private capital/financial services is an advantage, but not essential.
- Interest in or eagerness to learn about the private capital industry.
What’s On Offer:
- Immediate start in a full-time role
- Competitive day rate of £181.82 per-day + £22.63 daily holiday pay = total of £204.44 per-day PAYE.
- Hybrid working with just days per-week in Central London
- 2–3-month contract with possibility of extension or even going permanent.
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your CV demonstrating your suitability for this role.
Commitment to Diversity:
The Talent Set and our partner charity are committed to diverse and inclusive recruitment practices, ensuring equal opportunities for all applicants regardless of race, sexual orientation, disability, age, or gender. We actively encourage applications from a wide range of backgrounds and are always happy to make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair recruitment process.
University of Manchester Students’ Union
Associate Director of Student Engagement (Maternity Cover)
Salary: £40,950 - £47,250 (plus a cost of living award will be added from August)
Location: University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
Contract: Fixed-Term, ending on 31st July 2025
Hours: Full-Time, 35 hours per week (open to part time working requests of 0.6 FTE)
Do you love developing managers and leaders? Do you ask great questions and create space and safety for people to figure things out? Are you comfortable managing people who are more expert in things than you? Do you enjoy solving organisational/people puzzles and helping to guide and navigate teams to do the same? Do you value and seek co-leadership with beneficiaries (in our case, students)? If yes, this is the role for you!
About the Students’ Union
The Students’ Union is a registered charity and is independent from the University (although we work closely together). We are a student-led organisation and exist to help students make the most of their time at Manchester and get the best for their future. We’re the home of societies, volunteering, student media, advice, campaigns, student democracy and events.
About the role
We’re looking for an Associate Director to provide senior leadership to student facing teams in the students’ union. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a competent team and provide cross-organisational stewardship with a team of senior leaders. You’ll be getting up to speed with our culture, organisational approaches in your first month or so alongside the person going on maternity leave. You’ll have a clear roadmap of what’s coming up and be given the freedom to make good decisions to respond to the context as it changes. There is good support around our senior leaders from the director team, external coaching is available to anyone who requests it, and there are well developed people, finance and compliance functions. We have requisite knowledge around the role to make this suitable for someone with transferrable skills from outside Students’ Unions and if you’re from Students’ Unions, you’ll be working alongside great people to bounce ideas and thoughts off.
As an organisation, we’ve got a clear strategic framework, insight, people and values frameworks so your contribution will be to role model great behaviours and maintain excellent cross-directorate working. You’ll need to be able to pull different threads together and ensure our work is aligned to our strategy and values. You’ll be providing political advice to the elected student officers so being able to navigate complex stakeholder relationships and navigate others through it is important.
You do not have to have worked in education, Students’ Unions or the third sector before. The person specification is clear we’re looking for leadership development skills and a navigating complex environments orientation. This is because there is a lot of interest and scrutiny on what our organisation does, our influencing environment, relationships with the university and programmes develop and evolve quickly.
We recognise that we are looking for an experienced person (albeit without a sector knowledge requirement). If you have additional skills to bring to the role, we’d love to hear them. We’re open to discussing whether you want to work part time (minimum 0.6 FTE) alongside other freelancing work, so long as the outcomes and expectations are delivered to the required standard. We have a brilliant range of benefits which makes University of Manchester Students’ Union a very attractive place to work.
Key Dates:
Closing Date: 3pm on Monday 27th May 2024
Interviews: Tuesday 11th June 2024
How to Apply
Please click 'Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can download the Job Description and Person Specification and find details of how to apply.
For an informal conversation about the role and application process, please contact Anh Ly from Atkinson HR Consulting.
University of Manchester Students’ Union
Head of Advice - Service Transformation (Maternity Cover)
Salary: £34,650 - £38,850 (plus a cost of living award will be added from August)
Location: University of Manchester Students' Union, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PR
Contract: Fixed-Term, ending on 31st August 2025
Hours: Full-Time, 35 hours per week (open to part time working requests of 0.8 FTE)
Are you looking for a role in an information, advice or guidance setting?
If so, we are looking for you! We’re looking for a Head of Advice Service Transformation (Maternity Cover). Are you the kind of person that wants to make ‘the way things work’ better and have some experience of improving systems and processes in an advice or guidance team?
About the Students’ Union
The Students’ Union is a registered charity and is independent from the University (although we work closely together). We are a student-led organisation and exist to help students make the most of their time at Manchester and get the best for their future. We’re the home of societies, volunteering, student media, advice, campaigns, student democracy and events.
About the role
The University of Manchester Students’ Union Advice Service supports 50,000 students (3,100 service users a year) on a range of academic, housing, disciplinary and student finance issues. The advice service offers in person, over email and over video conference advice and this year we want to supercharge how able the service is to meet increasing student demand. We’re looking for someone who’ll review our processes and systems to deliver excellent customer service. We want someone who can support staff to develop into the more senior roles we’ve designed in our restructure.
This is a senior, Head of level role in our organisation, and we’re looking for someone who can work independently and bring their experience and knowledge to the role and connect in with other teams as well. This is a perfect role to go for if you’re interested in a secondment, looking for that next level up and you’ve got examples of where you’ve done some of the things in the job specification before, or if you’ve working in an information and guidance service and can see the transferable skills across to advice giving.
Key Dates:
Closing Date: 3pm on Sunday 26th May 2024
Interviews: Monday 10th June 2024
How to Apply
Please click 'Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can download the Job Description and Person Specification and find details of how to apply.
For an informal conversation about the role and application process, please contact Anh Ly at Atkinson HR Consulting.
Work setting: Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)
Salary: between £33,075 and £41,895 per annum
Hours: Full-time (36.5 hours per week)
Contract: 12-month FTC
Location: Midlands
Are you passionate about ensuring the integrity and compliance of External Quality Assurance processes within the education sector? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can lead, support, and implement strategies for continuous improvement?
TPP are recruiting an EQA Manager on behalf of our client, a highly respected awarding organisation dedicated to ensuring the safe and fair awarding of qualifications.
The Role:
As the EQA Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing external quality assurance processes and procedures, maintaining high standards and compliance with regulatory and awarding organisation requirements.
Main responsibilities:
- Manage all EQAs, including performance management processes.
- Lead recruitment efforts and ensuring appropriate training for EQAs.
- Ensure the smooth implementation of EQA processes and procedures to uphold regulatory compliance.
- Deliver annual budget reports to the Head of Access and Compliance, providing detailed forecasting and recommendations.
- Develop and execute annual training and development plans for centres, EQAs, and internal colleagues.
- Create centre-based training materials and handbooks.
- Supervise standardisation activities and materials for EQAs, both internally and externally.
- Offer recommendations to the Head of Access and Compliance regarding external quality assurance and ongoing improvement efforts.
- Assist the broader organisation in readiness for inspections, audits, and self-assessments.
- Coordinate and ensure EQAs allocation to carry out monitoring in line for CASS strategy.
Requirements:
- Project and line management experience.
- Knowledge of current education legislation.
- Knowledge of awarding body and regulatory structures.
- Experience in external quality assurance processes and report writing.
- Understanding of post-16 education and lifelong learning.
- Excellent organisational skills, diligence and integrity.
- Experience of networking with key stakeholders.
Additional information:
- Travel will be required in this role between the group's offices and nationally.
If this sounds like the role for you, then we would love to hear back. We are reviewing CVs as and when we are receiving them so, if you are keen to apply, then please do so today!
TPP are always keen to speak with candidates looking to work in the sector so if this role isn't quite right for you, please do check out our website and pop your CV over to us!
We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.
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MLC Partners are supporting a Central London based organisation within the Higher Education sector, to recruit a Finance Transformation Programme Officer on a 12-month fixed term contract. We are seeking an experienced Project Officer with a strong financial background to coordinate and deliver on various projects, contributing to the improvement and transformation of the Finance department.
This full-time position commences immediately, with hybrid working in Central London.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working closely with senior management to prepare comprehensive action plans, including resources, timeframes and budgets for projects
- To perform various coordinating tasks (scheduling and risk management), along with administrative duties, maintaining project documentation and handling financial queries
- Help prepare budgets, analyse risks and opportunities
- Support the creation and delivery of processes, policies, and procedures
- Ensure that all projects are completed on time, within budget and meet high quality standards
- Provide general administrative support to the Director of Finance as requested
Key skillset criteria:
- An understanding of financial principles, including accounting, budgeting, financial analysis, and reporting
- Proven experience in creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation, dashboard, plans, and reports
- An ability to prioritise workload and deadlines, collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate financial insights effectively
- Prince2 certification is highly desirable
- QBE/PQ/Q is highly desirable
Applications will be reviewed daily, and the role may close before this advert. Please contact Annabelle at MLC Partners to confidentially discuss your job search.
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MLC Partners are recruiting a Year End Accountant, 9 month fixed term contract within the Higher Education sector. The main objective of this position is to support timely delivery of financial reporting in compliance with the requirements of relevant regulatory bodies. In particular, the annual report and financial statements of the University and their individual subsidiaries.
Role responsibilities (but not limited to):
- Responsibility for successful delivery of Group’s annual financial statement audit
- Preparation of the Group Consolidation File
- Liaise and delivery of all audit deliverables
- Co-ordination and review of all Corporation Tax Computations
- Preparation / review of the Group and Subsidiary financial statements
- Manage the production of subsidiary Statutory Accounts for all legal entities
- Preparation and successful audit of the Annual Reports and Accounts that is in full compliance with IFRS, OfS, and any other regulatory disclosure requirements
Key skillset criteria:
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA)
- Extensive audit experience within audit practice
- Experience of completing and managing an annual accounts preparation
- Expertise in IFRS accounting standards and strong technical accounting knowledge
- Desirable experience within the Higher Education sector
- Desirable experience of Agresso/Unit4
If your skillset meets the criteria above, and you are available immediately – we want to hear from you! Please apply now as applicants are under constant review. For any additional questions, please reach out to Annabelle at MLC Partners.