Senior Student Funding Officer

Job title:

Senior Student Funding Officer

Company

University College London

Job description

About usStudent and Registry Services is one of the larger Professional Services divisions at UCL, providing essential services to UCL’s 50,000 students, 160,000 applicants and for supporting academic departments and administrative staff in delivering a high-quality student experience.The Student Funding Office (SFO) is responsible for coordinating the provision of funding support and advice to current and prospective UCL students. Through the various scholarship, bursary, and loan schemes on offer they process approximately 8000 applications each year and support awardees across more than 100 schemes. They are also responsible for maintaining the relationships with key funding partners and for the development of UCL’s financial support for students.About the roleThis is an exciting opportunity to join UCL’s Student Funding team as a Senior Student Funding Officer. Based in the Postgraduate Funding sub team, covering: scholarships; bursaries and loans for Research and Masters students and Initial Teacher Training; UCL’s Financial Assistance Fund; and US and Canadian loans, you will manage specific postgraduate Masters (PGT) award schemes as allocated by the Student Funding Manager, from promotion to payment of schemes, post award administration, running our PGT scholar community event programme and completing annual financial returns.The postholder will work closely with the Student Funding Manager to develop policy and to identify and implement process efficiencies using relevant data analysis. They will handle student and staff enquiries, participate in open day events and be proactive in building links with internal and external stakeholders.In addition to line managing one of the Student Funding Officers, you will be required to deputise for the Student Funding Manager when necessary.If you have any queries about the role, please contact Clare Hewitt at:About youApplicants must have experience of working in Higher Education in a busy student-facing administrative office environment and experience of running a scholarship award selection process, together with a working knowledge of student finance systems.To be successful in this role you will need to be proactive, able to work independently when necessary and have a practical approach to problem solving.You will have strong organisational skills and be able to meet targets and deadlines. You will have the ability to communicate complex information in various written formats and through presentations. You will also have excellent IT skills, including the ability to maintain databases and online content with accuracy.What we offerAs well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)

• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme

• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan

• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts

• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit to find out more.Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and InclusionAs London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; people with disabilities; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.Available documents

Expected salary

Location

North West London

Job date

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:46:31 GMT

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