About the job

Job summary

Knowledge and Information Management Senior Officer

Bristol

£51,846 - £56,662 + generous defined benefits Civil Service Pension

 

About us

 

The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England – we regulate higher education on behalf of all students.  Our mission is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.

We’re proud of our people, our culture, and the benefits we offer. At the OfS we want to create a welcoming and engaging working environment which is free from discrimination.

We’re looking for skilled, committed people who care about students and their experience of higher education. Join us and you’ll be part of an energetic, forward-looking organisation with high ambitions and big opportunities for our people.

Job description

About the role:

As a senior officer within the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) team, you’ll lead on a wide range of activities to ensure there is robust information governance in place across the organisation.

This is a dynamic and flexible role within a supportive team which oversees a varied and interesting portfolio of KIM activities.

 

Your key responsibilities will include:

• providing expert KIM advice to all OfS business areas;
• delivering reports, papers and briefings to senior management on KIM-related activities;
• ensuring the creation and adoption of robust KIM practices throughout the OfS; and

• line management of team members.

 

You will be expected to work flexibly across the full breadth of the team's activities, with the opportunity to lead on the provision of advice and policies in relation to one or more areas of KIM, including:

• ensuring that information is managed in compliance with all relevant information governance legislation, including complying with information rights requests under the Freedom of Information Act and data protection legislation;
• ensuring that the OfS’s records are managed in accordance with legislation and best practice, including the application of appropriate retentions, disposal of documents, and the transfer of records to The National Archives;
• managing core data protection and information assurance activities, including ensuring a culture of data protection compliance throughout the organisation;
• improving the management of knowledge across the organisation, including sharing best practice.

Person specification

About you

The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:

• substantial experience of working within a KIM or information rights role and suitably qualifiedg. Practitioner’s Certificate;
• ability to provide pragmatic, risk-based advice on compliance with legal obligations, as well an appreciation of the wider implications of KIM-related policies/decisions on the organisation’s strategic objectives;
• strong communication skills, including ability to communicate specialist knowledge clearly to non-specialists; and
• creates new and imaginative approaches to work-related issues.

 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,846, Office for Students contributes £14,050 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Working for us

 

The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.

 

We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.

 

To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part time working, apply to this role.

 

Closing date for applications: 7 July 2024

Interviews: From 15 July 2024

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.