School Manager

About these roles
The School Managers work collaboratively with academic and professional service teams supporting the student journey, helping students achieve success in their studies.  The successful candidates will contribute to Service and School-wide strategic planning, fostering a collaborative working environment that continues to enhance the performance of our portfolio and student experience.

One role is permanent, one a fixed term contract for a maternity cover, initially to September 2025 (or early return of the postholder) and the other fixed term role  will end April 2026. Please indicate which roles you are interested in being considered for on your application. These posts are full-time working 37 hours per week, and mainly campus based.  These posts are likely to be based on our lively Frenchay and Glenside campuses where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

About you
You are an experienced manager with a track record of leading teams to provide high quality, agile, customer-focused services. You combine expertise, knowledge and understanding of best practice in the design and delivery of administrative functions across the student journey, with a commitment to promoting innovation and continuous improvement of services. 

Motivated and resilient, you enjoy working at pace and are comfortable with complexity and uncertainty.  You have excellent communication and influencing skills and establish credibility quickly with staff at all levels. You are passionate about higher education and inspire your teams individually and collectively to deliver the best possible support for students. 

Why UWE Bristol?
We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian or racially minoritised candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information
If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Pete Campion-Spall, Head of Student Administration and Advice on pete.campion-spall@uwe.ac.uk.

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay campus early August 2024.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students, this role is therefore campus based for at least 60 percent of your time.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

We may be able to sponsor qualifying candidates for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. Please read our Skilled Worker Guidance to assess if you will be eligible to be sponsored under the criteria.

Please also refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable to prove your right to work in the UK.

Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.

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