Knowledge and Information Management Senior Officer
Salary or salary range: £51,846 – £56,662 + generous defined benefits Civil Service Pension
Contract type: Full-time
Location of position: Bristol
Application deadline: 7 July 2024
About us
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England – we regulate higher education on behalf of all students. Our mission is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
We’re proud of our people, our culture, and the benefits we offer. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination.
We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people.
About the role:
As a senior officer within the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) team, you’ll lead on a wide range of activities to ensure there is robust information governance in place across the organisation.
This is a dynamic and flexible role within a supportive team which oversees a varied and interesting portfolio of KIM activities.
Your key responsibilities will include:
• providing expert KIM advice to all OfS business areas;
• delivering reports, papers and briefings to senior management on KIM-related activities;
• ensuring the creation and adoption of robust KIM practices throughout the OfS; and
• line management of team members.
You will be expected to work flexibly across the full breadth of the team's activities, with the opportunity to lead on the provision of advice and policies in relation to one or more areas of KIM, including:
• ensuring that information is managed in compliance with all relevant information governance legislation, including complying with information rights requests under the Freedom of Information Act and data protection legislation;
• ensuring that the OfS’s records are managed in accordance with legislation and best practice, including the application of appropriate retentions, disposal of documents, and the transfer of records to The National Archives;
• managing core data protection and information assurance activities, including ensuring a culture of data protection compliance throughout the organisation;
• improving the management of knowledge across the organisation, including sharing best practice.
About you
The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:
• substantial experience of working within a KIM or information rights role and suitably qualified e.g. Practitioner’s Certificate;
• ability to provide pragmatic, risk-based advice on compliance with legal obligations, as well an appreciation of the wider implications of KIM-related policies/decisions on the organisation’s strategic objectives;
• strong communication skills, including ability to communicate specialist knowledge clearly to non-specialists; and
• creates new and imaginative approaches to work-related issues.
Working for us
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working, apply to this role.
Closing date for applications: 7 July 2024
Interviews: From 15 July 2024