Discretionary Funds Officer

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and numerous place to work within the coronary heart of the town. We at the moment have an thrilling alternative for a Discretionary Funds Officer (Maternity Cowl) to hitch our small dynamic Monetary Help Fund group. 

The Monetary Help Fund group seeks to allow college students, by means of monetary and different help to attain success on the College. Reporting to the Monetary Help Fund Supervisor and dealing with the present Discretionary Funds Officer, the publish holder might be answerable for the administration of the hardship funds and applicable belief funds for college students. The group is a part of the broader Schooling Growth Service, which provides workers and scholar improvement providers throughout the College. As a part of the broader group, the publish holder may have the chance to have interaction with workers and college students throughout the College. 

This can be a maternity cowl publish for a interval of as much as 12 months. 

The publish holder might be anticipated to work on campus three days every week based mostly at our metropolis centre campus. 

 Earlier expertise of hardship funds evaluation or co-ordination, and data of scholar finance insurance policies and procedures, and welfare advantages is fascinating.

Beneficiant
employer pension contribution of as much as 16%, with life cowl and revenue
safety included.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by means of 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 might be ready to take action, and might be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College instantly

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 reworking the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent folks to hitch us in taking us on the subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by means of 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 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 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 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 an extended heritage of innovation and of creating, courting again to our origins in 1843 once we had been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by means of innovation and its utility by means of data change, and of artistic analysis and observe, as we speak 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 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 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 expect in another way, and we construct neighborhood. 

We’re dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion, repeatedly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all elements of our operations. We imagine that by working collectively, combining our many various 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 bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is positioned in probably the most 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 show this, we’ve got 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 by means of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Conscious Employer, which implies we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our workers, and we’ve got additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by scholar 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 larger 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 good place to reside and work.

Primarily based within the coronary heart of England, the town is definitely accessible by highway, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has lately undergone main redevelopment, whereas the town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new fast 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 probably the most 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 dwelling 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 by means of 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 enduring Library of Birmingham. It additionally has superb live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It is usually 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 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 Road on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

The town additionally gives an awesome 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 Faculty 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 attaining the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the rules that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.