Ref: 1559
Posted: 09/06/2023 Start Date: TBA
Interview Date: 27/06/2023
Pay: £32,621
Close Date: 20/06/2023 at 17:00
About The Role
EKC Group are seeking a College Services Manager to join the Group. As a College Services Manager, you will lead and manage the Admissions, College Reception, Central Administration Team, Marketing, Careers and Enrichment in providing an efficient responsive customer orientated service within College Services.
Working at EKC Group is extremely rewarding with excellent benefits, such as, competitive holiday entitlement, access to a range of discounts on many high street stores and a generous pension scheme.
About You
We are seeking to appoint and enthusiastic and customer focused person with effective communication skills, coupled with experience of leading and managing a team. The ideal candidate will have experience in administration within and office environment and demonstrate the drive and enthusiasm to develop the function. Managing both the Admissions and College Reception Team, good organisational skills and effective leadership will be required along with an attention to detail.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate good levels of data validation, ideally within an educational setting and proven IT skills will be required to develop and enhance the student experience through the admissions and enrolment process.
The successful candidate will hold Administration/Office skills at Level 3 and IT qualifications at Level 2 or be working towards these qualifications. This will be a desirable skill set for this position to support the online admissions process as well as the student data.
About Us
East Kent Colleges Group is an Ofsted Outstanding rated provider. It is proud to be the first General Further Education college organisation in the country to have received the Outstanding grade against each of the strands under the new Ofsted inspection framework. An inclusive provider, our colleagues place our students and the communities we serve at the heart of everything they do across EKC Group and this is illustrated in our ‘Strong’ skills grading by Ofsted.
Commitment to Safeguarding
EKC Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and we ensure that all staff are aware of their responsibilities for upholding these principles. The Group’s designation as a ‘designated establishment’ means that all posts within EKC Group are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974. We therefore have an obligation to carry out robust checks to ensure that staff are suitable to work with children and vulnerable adults; applicants are therefore advised that appropriate safeguarding checks (including an enhanced DBS check) will be undertaken on all successful applicants; job offers will be made on the basis of satisfactory DBS and other checks, including the receipt of two references. If you are successful in obtaining an interview, your suitability to work with children and vulnerable adults will be explored as part of the interview process. Applicants should note that it is a criminal offence to apply for a post which involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to children if you are barred from doing so. All applicants are required to complete and submit a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children and vulnerable adults.
Commitment to Equal Opportunities
EKC Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of our communities. We are particularly keen to increase the diversity of our staff body and encourage applications from candidates where there is underrepresentation in our workforce. We are proud to hold the Positive About Disability Award; this confirms our commitment to interviewing all applicants who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification. Similarly, our commitment to Care Leavers means that we will interview applicants who meet the minimum criteria and who have declared on their application that they are a Care Leaver.
We welcome applications from anyone wishing to work flexibly and those considering a return to work from a career break.
Telephone: 01843605011
Email: kate.nanou@eastkent.ac.uk
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