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Student Life Service Manager
Professional Services
Learning, Teaching and Student Experience
| Salary: |
£40,247 to £45,163
per annum
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Working Hours are from 08:45am - 17:00pm |
| Post Type: |
Full Time |
| Contract Type: |
Permanent |
| Closing Date: |
Wednesday 05 March 2025 |
| Interview Date: |
To be confirmed
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| Reference: |
HR0179482 |
University of Bradford
At the University of Bradford, our focus is on creating the conditions for social, cultural, and economic impact. We are committed to social inclusion. Our work to expand opportunity and enable students to reach their potential, has led to us topping the Social Mobility Index of English universities for the last two years. Our University Strategy sets out our ambitions for 2025, which we will achieve by using our proud heritage as a springboard and remaining steadfast in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Directorate
Our new Student Life Service brings together our existing MyBradford and Student Life teams to create a new front-line service where our students can access high quality advice, guidance, and support on a range of university, money, and welfare matters.
Alongside responding to general enquiries from students relating to a wide range of university issues, we will provide a wide range of financial advice including student funding, assessing applications for hardship support, and providing guidance on welfare benefits. The Service will also provide support with a range of pastoral issues such as domestic violence, forced marriage, homelessness, and other broader welfare issues.
What you will be doing:
- Leading our Student Life Specialist Advisers and our Student Life Generalist Advisers to ensure the team provides comprehensive and effective sector leading support to our students.
- Work closely with our Head of Student Life to oversee the disbursement of hardship and other discretionary support to students, ensuring fair and robust processes and procedures are implemented and monitored, along with the creation and delivery of the institution’s financial capability strategy, including specific cost of living initiatives.
- Oversee effective processes, procedures and wider initiatives pertaining to welfare support.
Qualifications/ experience:
- Level 6 (e.g. degree) or equivalent qualification or relevant experience
- Relevant experience of working in a student support role within higher or further education setting
In Return we Offer:
- 25 days holiday (Grade 8) and 13 statutory and customary days (taken at Easter and Christmas).
- Family-friendly policies
- Unique fitness centre
- Eye clinic
- Physiotherapy & sports rehabilitation,
- Counselling & mental health services
- On site nursery
- Generous employer contribution pension schemes - Universities Superannuation Scheme
- Generous benefit schemes, including car leasing, cycle to work, holiday purchase, home & technology scheme and shopping discounts
Find more information about the many other benefits, including salary sacrifice schemes and campus nursery.
Additional Information:
If you would like to find out more or are interested in applying, Informal enquiries prior to application can be made to Sarah Jones, Head of Student Life by email at s.jones22@bradford.ac.uk
Please note, as this role includes responsibility for our frontline student support team, the successful candidate will be required to work on campus for most of the working week with limited scope for working remotely.
Further details:
Confronting Inequality : Celebrating Diversity
At the University of Bradford we accept people for who they are regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation or socio-economic background and whether you’re pregnant or on maternity leave.
In line with the University’s commitment to equality charters including Athena Swan, Race Equality Charter, Disability Confident and Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme, we welcome applications from people identifying with these characteristics. The University has a number of staff networks which provide peer support and safe spaces for staff who hold these and other identities.