Deputy Head Of Planning

An exciting opportunity has come available to help the University’s planning function as it transitions to a new operating model. The role is offered on a fixed-term basis. The Deputy Head of Planning will play a key role in meeting the university’s statutory reporting requirements and ensuring its student survey function is administered effectively with outputs appropriately analysed and disseminated. This is integral to supporting our students to succeed. The role will be expected to provide both hands-on capability and leadership in these areas as well as assisting where required and contributing positively to the culture of the directorate.  The role-holder will be expected to have experience in compiling, completing and data quality assurance checking higher education statutory returns such as HESA Student, the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) return and Unistats. Experience in working through the HESA Data Futures transformation within an institutional setting will be an advantage. The role is being offered on a full-time fixed-term basis until the end of October 2024 with a possible three-month extension on top of this. Part-time applications will be considered. The post will be expected to line manage at least one member of staff and will be based at the Greenwich campus (with flexible working offered).  The University of Greenwich is a fantastic and rewarding place to work having been established over 125 years ago and situated on three beautiful campuses at Greenwich, Avery Hill and Medway. The University boasts state-of-the-art facilities and an international student and staff community. Awarded Silver in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, the University has a growing reputation for teaching and learning, an attractive portfolio of academic programmes, and highly talented and motivated staff.  For an informal discussion about the post please contact Helen Miles, Head of Planning at h.l.miles@greenwich.ac.uk or Simon Lewis, Executive Director for Strategic Planning at s.lewis@greenwich.ac.uk Should you have any recruitment related queries please contact the People Directorate Operations Team on peopleoperations-cfo@greenwich.ac.uk  To apply, please visit the University of Greenwich vacancies page and complete all details, including the supporting statements (please note attached CVs and personal statements will not be seen by the recruitment panel at the application stage). Click 'Apply' above. 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.