Widening Participation Officer

Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and various place to work, proper within the coronary heart of the UK’s second metropolis. We’ve an thrilling position so as to add to our Scholar Recruitment workforce, supporting with the supply of our Widening Participation exercise. This position will go well with a person with some expertise of working inside the space of Widening Participation.

You’ll be accountable for supply and administration of the College’s Widening Participation initiatives, working inside a small workforce of officers and assistants. The initiatives are various and thrilling and contain working alongside younger folks 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, making certain that relationships with key accomplice organisations and initiatives align with the strategic goals of the College and the division. 

Candidates needs to be educated to diploma stage (or equal) or maintain knowledgeable qualification akin to IAG stage 4. 

With round 24,000 college students from 80 international locations, Birmingham Metropolis College is a big and various place to review. We put college students on the coronary heart of all the things we do, giving them the perfect alternatives for future success. The College has an enviable fame for offering high quality, student-focused schooling in knowledgeable and pleasant surroundings. Our very good programs, state-of-the-art amenities, first-rate workers, and give attention to sensible abilities {and professional} relevance is producing among the nation’s most employable graduates. 

We’ve 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 serious enlargement of our metropolis centre campus at Eastside, offering college students with an enviable vary of amenities. The Full College Information ranked us as a prime 30 UK college for spending on amenities in 2015.

 Our workers and pupil 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 centered, Partnership working and Equity and integrity.

The appointed candidate will usually be employed by way 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 a tutorial STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and need excellent folks to hitch us in taking us on the following stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by way of doing. They’re empowered all through their academic journey, attaining 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 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 schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the planet, we not solely help people to remodel their lives, however we additionally play a component in remodeling 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 had been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of creating by way of innovation and its software by way of data trade, and of artistic analysis and apply, 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 educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is residence to a wealthy and various 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 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 points 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 situated in probably the most culturally wealthy and various 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 obstacles that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside larger schooling.  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 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 Aware Employer, which implies 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 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 growth and sustainability for technicians working in larger schooling 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 vitality and enthusiasm and is a superb place to reside and work.

Based mostly within the coronary heart of England, the town is well accessible by street, 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 planet.

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 residence to an inter-disciplinary neighborhood of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of help to corporations of all sizes to spice up development by way 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 stunning 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 beautiful new residence for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many predominant 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 successful 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 supplies a fantastic 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 the town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the retailers 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 ideas that unite the best way we work collectively and for our college students.