Department Administrator

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (RBC) is without doubt one of the main performing arts greater schooling 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 shocking Grade II listed constructing in Bournville. Coaching gifted musicians and actors from everywhere in the world, RBC is an excellent artistic neighborhood inside which work, examine and analysis mix to excellent impact.

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

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

OUR VISION

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

Our college students study by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, reaching important academic acquire 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. By way of our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the earth, we not solely help people to rework their lives, however we additionally play an element in reworking society.

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

Our heritage of constructing by way of innovation and its software by way of data change, and of artistic analysis and follow, immediately 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 educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

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

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our employees. Our employees 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 otherwise, and we construct neighborhood. 

We’re dedicated to equality, range and inclusion, repeatedly reviewing and enhancing our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all elements of our operations. We consider that by working collectively, combining our many alternative backgrounds and life experiences, we are going to 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 situated in one of the crucial 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 limitations that our employees and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of employees and college students from all backgrounds inside greater schooling.  To reveal this, now we have 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 way of 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 employees, and now we have additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by pupil psychological well being charity Scholar 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 improvement and sustainability for technicians working in greater schooling 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 stuffed with vitality and enthusiasm and is a superb place to dwell and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, the town is well accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has just lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas the 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 Road Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and might be one of the crucial environmentally pleasant stations on the earth.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation for the reason that earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is dwelling to an inter-disciplinary neighborhood of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to firms of all sizes to spice up progress by way of innovation to deal with business 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 enduring 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.  Additionally it is dwelling to the Alexander Stadium, which is the gorgeous new dwelling for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many important occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on the town, and Birmingham Metropolis College employees and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

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

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

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to the town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets 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.