Strategic Planning

Location: Greenwich Campus
Salary: £44,263 to £54,395 plus £5400 London weighting per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Friday 01 November 2024
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Reference: 4641-E

The Strategic Planning Directorate’s goal is to achieve better decision-making across the institution from the analysis, advice and insight we provide, to the trusted relationships we build with stakeholders and the data quality, governance and infrastructure that underpins it.

Recently reconfigured and expanded, now is a great time to join the Directorate as we look to enhance our contributions to delivering the University Strategy.

We are seeking an outstanding candidate to the lead the University’s approach to student number reporting and modelling. Managing a small team, they will combine leadership and hands-on delivery in developing and providing reporting on all stages of the student journey from forecasting and budgeting, to recruitment, enrolment and continuation reporting.

This is a critical role to the University and the successful candidate will be expected to proactively engage with a range of internal stakeholders such as Marketing and External Relations and Finance, empowering them with meaningful analysis and insight and working with them to build shared understanding on what drives trends in data and whether interventions are having measurable impacts. Within the Directorate they will ensure alignment with the Statutory Returns and Data Governance team and provide accurate and timely students numbers for use across a range of other internal processes such as Academic Workload Planning.

Externally the role-holder will be expected to develop and maintain positive working relationships, stay up-to-speed with sector developments and horizon scan within and beyond the sector for business intelligence trends that may present opportunities or risks to the University.

We are a diverse and inclusive team of dedicated professionals who are committed and passionate about what we do. Our main office is on the Greenwich campus with occasional travel to our Avery Hill and Medway campuses required. We have actively embraced hybrid working with most of our staff splitting their time between the workplace and remote working.

We are seeking a dedicated and passionate professional with a shared commitment to our values of inclusivity, collaboration and impact. If you think this describes you and you want to make a difference, please apply.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Simon Lewis on s.lewis@greenwich.ac.uk

Should you have any queries regarding the application process please contact the People Directorate Team on peopleoperations-cfo@greenwich.ac.uk

Further details of the fantastic benefits and what we offer can be found here: Our benefits - what we offer | Jobs and careers | University of Greenwich and information on the university’s working principles: Working Principles and Guidelines | Documents | University of Greenwich

To apply, please visit the University of Greenwich vacancies page and complete all details, including the supporting statements: Current Vacancies - Jobs at Greenwich

We are looking for people who can help us deliver our mission of transforming lives through inspired teaching and research, through our values.

We are committed to building a strong, diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We particularly encourage applications from [protected characteristic(s)], who are currently under-represented within the University of Greenwich at these levels/within these areas.

We do this through taking positive action such as encouraging applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Time to Change Employer Pledge/Mentally Healthy Universities, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff, and removing barriers to improve inclusion.

We encourage applicants to disclose experience of mental health problems so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Any information disclosed will be kept confidential and separate from the job application form. 

We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.