Kendal College Hiring for Education & Training College Information Systems Co-Ordinator Job at Kendal, England Full Time

Are you an experienced Information Systems manager looking for a new challenge?
Have you always wanted to live and work within an area of natural beauty and vibrant culture?
An integral role in the MIS Team has arisen, where the delivery of an outstanding customer experience and the delivery of accurate, timely, high-quality data is expected, to support the College objectives.

Key Facts
Job Title: Education & Training College Information Systems Co-Ordinator
Full time Permanent Role (37 hours per week)
Pay Scale Band F: £25,923 to £28,024 depending upon qualifications and experience
Closing Date: 10th January 2022

You will lead a team of Data Administrators and Examination staff to deliver an outstanding service to stakeholders, ensuring a coherent and consistency level of service through the achievement of agreed service standards and key performance indicators.
You will provide support to the Vice Principal – Data, Funding and Information, to ensure a positive experience to service users. The role will include autonomous and directed project work on a variety of processes, including enrolment, examinations, loans, fees etc
To be responsible for ensuring that all aspects of student and course file data is accurate and credible, and is collected, input, cleansed and maintained to agreed quality and timescales.
Job Overview
To co-ordinate and develop information systems relating to all delivery excluding Work Based learning across the College ensuring efficient compliance with audit and regulatory requirements.
To assist in the role of providing accurate and timely ILR and other key data to on the college senior management team and other key stakeholders. Keeping up to date with policy and auditory changes and make recommendation for and, with agreement, implement, processes to ensure compliance within these.
To lead on the development of business processes associated with enrolment, ensuring the College has effective and efficient enrolment process for both full-time and part-time students. To have significant input into the College’s monthly ILR data returns, ensuring compliance with funding rules & audit, making sure they are accurate, timely and complete. Assist with the regular checking of data, using software tools to validate and ensure its accuracy and efficacy.
Assist and co-ordinate in the collection of evidence and data relating to full and part-time students for audits and OfSted. Liaise with college finance teams regarding all relevant fees, debtors and loans relating to full and part-time students, completing regular reconciliations to ensure the College has an effective timely system for collection of all outstanding fees. Coordination of the process to check the accuracy of timetabling of full-time provision, ensuring timetables reflect the course structure as set through Curriculum Planning, to ensure audit compliance and funding maximisation. To also ensure the creation of registers from timetables is timely to ensure all funded (and non-funded) students Curriculum delivery is evidenced to support audit.
To ensure the College have effective systems and processes used to collect full-time student data, including GCSE results, ULN’s etc. are effective and reviewed for suitability on an on-going basis. To research and review all available guidance in a timely fashion to ensure you become a focal point for knowledge relating to funding rules and audit for Education and Training provision, and pass on key information and changes to relevant staff on a regular basis through on-going training.
Overseeing the Examination function within CIS, ensuring that key exam deadlines are met in a timely manner. This will include the set-up of examination base data, managing student registrations, claims & examinations including invigilation.
To line manage the team of Education & Training Administrators, ensuring they have strong understanding of the funding and audit rules and requirements that apply to ESFA and AEB funded students.
All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
See Job description for full details.
Why Choose Us
Located next to the breath-taking UNESCO World Heritage site of the Lake District, Kendal College is an FE College that consistently punches above its weight on the national stage. Under the leadership of our Principal, Kelvin Nash, Kendal College is embarking on a series of bold steps to grow the College and remain a top-notch education provider for Cumbria and the North West region. Our students are focused on their learning, achieve high levels of attainment and consistently give us high satisfaction ratings. The College recognises the wellbeing of its staff as a priority, as well as ensuring that excellent work is appropriately recognised and that a healthy work-life balance is maintained.
What We Offer

• A generous holiday entitlement
• 7 efficiency days per year (pro rata) in addition to your hard-earned holiday allocation.
• A College that is committed to developing every student to reach their full potential, irrespective of their ability.
• Collaborative working within our departments and campuses to support our endeavours to work smarter and achieve an effective balance between home and work.
• A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn.
• Excellent CPD opportunities to grow and develop.
• A College that promotes and supports flexible working
• On-site canteens with locally sourced ingredients.
• A Cycle to Work scheme.
• Fantastic facilities to resource your ability to support your students.
• A comprehensive Staff awards, rewards and Wellbeing scheme.

Job Requirements – The Right Candidate will have:
Qualifications – Essential

• Education to Level 4

• GCSE Maths and English at grade A to C, or equivalent at level 2

Qualifications – Desirable

• Higher level qualifications

Experience – Essential

• Motivating and mentoring other staff

• Maintaining, sharing and auditing a large and complex data set

• Successful experience of managing a team in an education setting.

• Successful experience of setting, monitoring and achieving targets.

• Good knowledge of both HE and FE funding and eligibility guidelines

Excellent working knowledge of ProSolution
Knowledge/Skills – Essential

• Professional and friendly attitude

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to deal confidently with staff of all levels and with external organisations.

• Excellent Organisational skills

• GDPR an compliance with it

• System and data management and how this can be presented

A practical problem solver with the ability to work autonomously and flexibly with initiative.
Safeguarding Statement:
The College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at the College is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent