Department Administrator

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) is among the main performing arts increased training institutes within the UK. A part of Birmingham Metropolis College, the Conservatoire boasts a £57million world-class, purpose-built premises throughout the Metropolis Centre Campus of the College, together with a surprising Grade II listed constructing in Bournville. Coaching gifted musicians and actors from everywhere in the world, RBC is a superb inventive neighborhood inside which work, examine and analysis mix to excellent impact.

Candidates ought to please observe that each one interviews shall be held in-person on college campus. Anticipated interview date is Tuesday 16 April.

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

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent folks to affix us in taking us on the following stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students study via doing. They’re empowered all through their instructional journey, attaining important instructional achieve and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to affix us. Come and be a part of the following 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 remodel their lives and to attain their potential. By way of our training and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the earth, we not solely help people to remodel their lives, however we additionally play an element in remodeling society.

Positioned within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with an extended heritage of innovation and of constructing, courting again to our origins in 1843 once we had been based because the Birmingham Authorities College of Design.  

Our heritage of constructing via innovation and its software via information trade, and of inventive analysis and follow, at the moment 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 house to a wealthy and numerous vary of communities.  Our college students replicate this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to guarantee that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college neighborhood. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and pupil 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 expect in another way, 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 imagine that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we’ll empower one another to achieve 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 positioned in one of the culturally wealthy and numerous Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encompassing 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 increased training.  To display 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 Prime 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 via 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 pupil 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 increased training and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

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

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, town is well accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Avenue station has not too long ago 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 shall be one of the environmentally pleasant stations on the earth.

The 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 house 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 progress via innovation to deal with 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’s also house to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new house 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.

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

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the gorgeous arcades and independents, to town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham supply a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in attaining 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.