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• Do you thrive in process-driven roles where accuracy, empathy and clear communication really matter?
• Do you enjoy being the person people turn to for answers – bringing calm, clarity and structure to complex situations?

 
 
TPP Recruitment is supporting an awarding and professional membership body to recruit a Student Services Officer.
 
This is an exciting opportunity to join a newly structured Education Directorate and play a central role in shaping the student experience. As Student Services Officer, you will be at the heart of a high-volume, process-driven environment – supporting learners throughout their qualification journey and ensuring services are delivered efficiently, fairly, and with care.
 
This role would suit candidates from education, administration, customer service or high-level PA backgrounds who enjoy structured processes, clear policies, and meaningful interactions with stakeholders.
 
 
Salary: £35,000 per annum
Employment type: Permanent
Working arrangements: Home based with mandatory attendance at company meetings
Working pattern: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Other benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Generous pension scheme (10% employer contribution)
• Life assurance and income protection cover
• Employee assistance programme and optional private medical insurance
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities

 

About the Organisation
 
This organisation is a well-established awarding and professional body with a strong reputation for delivering high-quality qualifications that support career development across a specialist sector.
 
With a clear commitment to accessibility, inclusivity, and continuous improvement, they are focused on delivering an excellent student experience while maintaining rigorous standards and regulatory compliance.
 
You will be joining during a period of growth, as a new team is established to strengthen student services and support evolving qualification delivery.

About the Role
 
As Student Services Officer, you will act as a key point of contact for students, supporting them throughout their journey and ensuring enquiries, requests, and processes are handled efficiently and professionally.
 
This is a varied role combining customer service, administration, and communication, with a strong emphasis on following structured processes and maintaining high levels of accuracy.
 
You will also contribute to student engagement through communications, website updates, and newsletters, helping to ensure students receive clear, timely, and helpful information.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Act as the first point of contact for student enquiries and complaints via phone and email
• Manage requests including deferrals, exemptions and cancellations
• Process applications for reasonable adjustments and special considerations in line with policies
• Liaise with exam platform providers to support exam delivery and resolve queries
• Support and administer misconduct and compliance-related processes
• Maintain accurate student records and ensure data is handled in line with requirements
• Produce and issue student newsletters (minimum six per year)
• Update website content and manage student-facing communications
• Support social media and engagement channels, including LinkedIn

 
 
Skills / Experience Required
 

• Experience in a process-driven administrative or customer-facing role (education experience beneficial but not essential)
• Strong attention to detail and ability to follow structured procedures consistently
• Experience reviewing applications or documentation and making decisions within clear frameworks
• Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear and accurate content
• Confident managing high volumes of enquiries while maintaining a professional and supportive tone
• Experience handling complaints, with the ability to take ownership and resolve issues end-to-end
• Ability to support individuals in sensitive situations with empathy, while adhering to policies
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple processes simultaneously
• Experience using systems and managing data; confidence updating websites or content platforms
• Able to adapt communication style across different audiences and formats

 
 
To Apply
 

• To apply for this Student Services Officer role, please submit your CV and a tailored cover letter outlining how your experience aligns with the role requirements.
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and early application is encouraged as the vacancy may close ahead of the advertised deadline.

 
 
Interview Process
 

• Two-stage process with assessment
• Mid-July 2026

 
 
Deadline
 

• Friday 26th June 2026

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.

Planning & Integration Manager - 12-month FTC

It starts with community – and so does everything we do at The National Lottery Community Fund (the Fund). As the UK's largest community funder, we will distribute over £4 billion by 2030 to projects that strengthen society and improve lives. Our UK-wide Communications & Engagement Team is at the heart of telling that story, and we're looking for an exceptional Planning and Integration Manager to join us on a 12-month maternity cover basis.

This is a genuinely exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in one of the most ambitious periods in the Fund's history. As we enter phase two of our It Starts With Community strategy, our communications are more important than ever – positioning the Fund as a credible, influential voice on community resilience, cohesion and change. You'll be the operational linchpin that turns our strategic ambitions into coordinated, measurable reality.

Role Expectations

Working closely with the Head of Communications Strategy and the wider communications leadership team, you'll bring together integrated plans for our media, marketing, digital and external affairs functions, ensuring clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and efficient use of resources. If you're energised by complexity, thrive on bringing order and clarity to busy teams, and care about the power of communications to make a difference, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing design and delivery of planning and project management tools and systems across the Communications & Engagement function.
• Acting as the central point of contact/traffic manager between Communications teams and the rest of the Fund, managing incoming requests and allocating resources effectively.
• Developing project dashboards and reporting tools that track delivery progress and highlight risks or dependencies to drive project decisions and provide business insights.
• Establishing, monitoring and evaluating integrated objectives and metrics across media, marketing, digital and external affairs, ensuring our campaigns are based on evidence and focused on outcomes.
• Managing a team of two Communications Assistants.​

Skills & Requirements

You'll bring a strong track record in planning and delivering integrated communications activities in a complex organisation, with proven experience in operational planning, resource management and building effective planning frameworks across multiple teams. You'll be confident using data and analytics to drive operational improvements, and skilled at working across and between teams in a matrix environment.

Experience in people management is essential, as is the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels. A background in communications or marketing agency planning would be an advantage, as would familiarity with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

We have a hybrid approach to working. Work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and Newtown. The role requires semi-frequent travel to other offices.

Interview details:

• Date: July 22nd and 23rd
• Format: Online
• Location: UK-wide

We will be hosting a briefing session on Thursday 18th June, 11am. To register for the session or for any questions about the recruitment process, please email the recruitment team.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact the recruitment team.

How to apply:

Upload your CV in word format and write a supporting statement (1000 words) with the following criteria, we will use this to score your application.

Essential Criteria

• Strong track record in planning and delivering integrated communications activities in a complex organisation to deliver against organisational KPIs.
• Experience in operational planning and resource management across multiple teams, with proven ability to build and maintain effective planning frameworks and processes.
• Success in stakeholder management and matrix working.
• Experience using data and analytics to improve operational effectiveness.
• Experience in people management and development.

 Desirable Criteria

• Background in communications or marketing agency planning.
• Relevant project management qualification.
• Understanding of the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion ​

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.  

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages. 

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.) 

This is a hands-on role that moves between two registers: structured qualitative research with proper analytical underpinning, and fast-turnaround reactive policy work. You will need to be genuinely comfortable in both able to run a multi-month thematic publication and turn around a tight briefing or consultation response within 48-72 hours when a policy window opens.

The role will lead The Difference's qualitative research and insight function, including research workstreams tied to the Difference Schools Partnership's annual thematic priorities, and our Harmful and Abusive Behaviours (HaB) workstream convening a sector council to build a shared framework for how schools understand and respond to peer-on-peer harm. You will produce briefings, evidence submissions and publications, manage external research partners, and work with the CEO, Head of Policy and Communications team to launch research with real impact. The role reports to the Head of Policy and works closely with colleagues across Strategy, Research and Programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead The Difference's qualitative research and insight function, running research workstreams tied to annual DSP thematic priorities and emerging strands on MAT inclusion and LA working
• Design and deliver qualitative research with schools, MATs and local authorities interviews, focus groups, school visits and thematic analysis  translating findings into evidence and policy recommendations
• Lead the Harmful and Abusive Behaviours research workstream, convening a sector council, producing briefing material and managing the route from convening to publication
• Produce timely, citable evidence for policy influence  including drafting briefings, consultation responses and evidence submissions on fast turnaround
• Project manage publication cycles from scoping through to launch, working with coalition and media partners to maximise reach and tracking policy traction post-launch
• Brief, manage and integrate the outputs of external research partners where commissioned (e.g. FFT Datalab, Pro Bono Economics)
• Capture and develop case studies from DSP schools and the wider Difference network

About The Difference

• Every day, the equivalent of 5,500 children are suspended from England's schools, doubling their likelihood of being NEET by 24. The Difference is a young education charity founded to change this story through whole school inclusion. We train school leaders, carry out our own research, and turn frontline insights into policy recommendations lobbying Ofsted and the Department for Education to improve funding and support for inclusion. Our vision is to see lost learning falling nationally by 2030.

About You

Essential

• Dual capability across reactive and structured research : comfortable producing tight briefings on a 48–72 hour turnaround and running multi-month qualitative publications
• Experience in education research, policy research or applied social research, with examples of published, commissioned or internally-influential work
• Strong qualitative research skills : interview and focus group design, thematic coding, framework development, synthesis across multiple sources
• Persuasive writing for mixed audiences : able to write clearly and concisely for policymakers, school leaders, the press and the sector, and comfortable ghost-writing for senior colleagues
• Project management discipline : able to run multiple workstreams in parallel, manage your own deadlines, and keep colleagues and external partners on track
• Comfortable working at pace in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift as policy windows open and close : self-directed, flexible and able to make good judgement calls under pressure
• Shared values with The Difference and personal commitment to improving life outcomes for young people

Desired

• Strong working understanding of UK education policy, particularly around inclusion, exclusion, SEND, accountability and school improvement
• Confident data literacy and basic quantitative analysis : comfortable interrogating population-level datasets and translating findings into accessible policy language
• Understanding of why language matters when writing about behaviour, exclusion and vulnerability, and the ability to frame behaviour as a signal of unmet need consistently across all work
• Lived experience or insight into the school experiences of marginalised young people
• Experience of working in or with schools, multi-academy trusts or local authorities
• Existing relationships in education research, policy or sector organisations

Please see the attached Job Description for full role details and person specification.

We are committed to building a diverse team and strongly encourage applications from under-represented groups in the charity sector. As part of our commitment to fairer recruitment, all applications will be assessed with names and protected characteristics redacted.