Widening Participation Officer

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and numerous place to work, proper within the coronary heart of the UK’s second metropolis. Now we have an thrilling function so as to add to our Pupil Recruitment staff, supporting with the supply of our Widening Participation exercise. This function will go well with a person with some expertise of working inside the space of Widening Participation.

You’ll be liable for supply and administration of the College’s Widening Participation tasks, working inside a small staff of officers and assistants. The tasks are numerous and thrilling and contain working alongside younger individuals of all ages, working to make sure that BCU is located as a market chief in our Widening Participation (WP) recruitment exercise. You’ll assist to develop the place of BCU as “the College for Birmingham”. 

You’ll help the WP and Partnerships Supervisor in delivering the WP and Partnerships technique, guaranteeing that relationships with key accomplice organisations and initiatives align with the strategic aims of the College and the division. 

Candidates needs to be educated to diploma degree (or equal) or maintain knowledgeable qualification reminiscent of IAG degree 4. 

With round 24,000 college students from 80 nations, Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and numerous place to check. We put college students on the coronary heart of the whole lot we do, giving them the perfect alternatives for future success. The College has an enviable repute for offering high quality, student-focused training in knowledgeable and pleasant atmosphere. Our excellent programs, state-of-the-art services, first-rate workers, and deal with sensible expertise {and professional} relevance is producing a number of the nation’s most employable graduates. 

Now we have contributed £270 million into the regional economic system and help 1000’s of jobs within the space. We’re investing £260 million in our property, together with a significant enlargement of our metropolis centre campus at Eastside, offering college students with an enviable vary of services. The Full College Information ranked us as a high 30 UK college for spending on services in 2015.

 Our workers and scholar neighborhood is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we’ll work with one another. Our core values are Excellence, Individuals targeted, Partnership working and Equity and integrity.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by our subsidiary firm BCU Assist Providers Restricted, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Birmingham Metropolis College. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who want to enter the LGPS scheme will probably be in a position to take action, and will probably be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College instantly

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an instructional STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re reworking the lives of scholars and their communities, and wish excellent individuals to hitch us in taking us on the subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by doing. They’re empowered all through their instructional journey, reaching vital instructional achieve and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to hitch us. Come and be a part of the subsequent thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to rework their lives and to realize their potential. Via our training and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on this planet, we not solely help people to rework their lives, however we additionally play an element in reworking society.

Positioned within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of creating, courting again to our origins in 1843 once we have been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by innovation and its utility by data change, and of artistic analysis and apply, in the present day finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our tutorial portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is residence to a wealthy and numerous vary of communities.  Our college students mirror this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to be sure that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college neighborhood. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and scholar neighborhood is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we predict otherwise, and we construct neighborhood. 

We’re dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion, constantly reviewing and enhancing our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all features of our operations. We consider that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we’ll empower one another to succeed in our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to enhancing employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is situated in one of the vital culturally wealthy and numerous Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encircling area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional boundaries that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside larger training.  To exhibit this, we have now signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to indicate our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the High 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Conscious Employer, which suggests we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our workers, and we have now additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by scholar psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger training and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for almost 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis stuffed with power and enthusiasm and is a superb place to dwell and work.

Based mostly within the coronary heart of England, town is well accessible by street, rail and air. Birmingham New Avenue station has lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new speedy rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Avenue Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and will probably be one of the vital environmentally pleasant stations on this planet.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation because the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is residence to an inter-disciplinary neighborhood of entrepreneurs, companies, tutorial researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to firms of all sizes to spice up development by innovation to handle industrial and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to lovely historic buildings and the long-lasting Library of Birmingham. It additionally has wonderful live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It is usually residence to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new residence for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many principal occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on town, and Birmingham Metropolis College workers and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene provides one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Avenue on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

Town additionally supplies an ideal place to buy, being residence the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous residence of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is residence to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Faculty of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the retailers in Birmingham provide a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in reaching the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the ideas that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.