Head of Funding Policy and Operations
Posted by: Office For Students
Employed By: Office For Students
Job Title: Head of Funding Policy and Operations
Salary: £79,498 - £83,299 Plus generous Civil Service defined benefit pension
Contract: Full time
Location: Bristol/London
Application Deadline: 15 December 2024 at 23:55
The OfS is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do so by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.
The higher education sector in England is complex and diverse and the OfS’s approach to regulation recognises this. Our new strategy signals a shift from an organisation in a start-up phase to an established regulator that understands its regulatory tools and how best to use them to shape incentives across the sector we regulate. We work to ensure that students in England enjoy higher education provision that is high quality; that their access to opportunity, success and progression is not limited by background, location or characteristics; and that providers are well and sustainably led.
As Head of Funding Policy and Operations, you will be accountable for the development, implementation and continuous improvement of the OfS’s approach to the delivery of its funding policy and funding operations. You will have responsibility for delivering effective funding in practice, implementing arrangements for effective decision-making on funding allocations, and leading the development of funding capabilities and agile working of the Funding team.
In discharging your responsibilities, you will ensure funding allocation decisions are taken on the basis set out in the OfS scheme of delegation and be able to translate the OfS’s approach to funding into effective operational systems as these relate to individual providers. You will also work collaboratively across the directorate to embed funding operations to achieve this aim.
Key to success in this role will be your ability to develop, lead and manage a team in a complex and changing environment, make reliable judgements about funding allocations at pace and have the ability to design, implement and communicate effective funding operations.
Click the link ‘Apply’ below to view more about the role and apply via the OFS website.
We will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application after 6 January 2025.
Candidates through to the next stage will be tasked with a written exercise to be completed by 19 January 2025.
The final stage will be an interview either week beginning 27 January or 3 February 2025.