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Funding Manager

Funding Manager

City Lit

London

  • Expired
Salary:
£39,265-42,586 inclusive of London Weighting
Job type:
Full Time, Permanent
Apply by:
7 February 2018

Job overview

Funding Manager

17.18MR02

Location: Covent Garden, London

Salary: £39,265-42,586 inclusive of London Weighting

Unleash your potential

We’re looking for an organised and proactive Funding Manager to help us achieve our business goals through proactively reporting on the College’s funding position, highlighting opportunities and risks as appropriate and taking ownership for ensuring data accuracy and audit compliance of student and related data.

Play a vital role in our Business Systems and Support department

Our Business Systems and Support team ensure the central college management information system is appropriately developed and maintained in line with the needs of the organisation. The team manage the organisation’s capacity and capability to use Government funding as a key resource in the achievement of its strategic aims. Joining us as a Funding Manager, you will:

- Support the Head of BSS in proactively reporting on the College’s funding position, highlighting opportunities and risks as appropriate and to ensure data accuracy and audit compliance of student and related data.

- Develop and support the college management information system (CMIS) in respect of funding. 

- Provide management information to support the core business, including providing funding earnings estimates, advise on funding issues, funding audit and quality performance measures. 

Be part of our Community

City Lit is London's largest provider of learning for adults, inspiring over 30,000 students a year and offering more then 5,000 courses. As a leader in our field, we have a reputation for delivering a high quality student experience. However our reach and impact within London is far reaching and through the support of our Community Outreach department extends beyond our campus’s to bring City Lit’s teaching into the community. In this role, you’ll provide vital support that will make a huge impact on the success of our Business Systems and Support department and truly contribute to being part of our continued journey of where London learns.

What we are looking for:

- Have excellent IT Skills, including advanced Excel, Microsoft Access ODBC connections, pass-through queries and report writing. In addition to having knowledge of/willingness to learn reading and writing SQL scripts

- Have a sound knowledge of relational databases, including Further Education student record databases

- Proven numeracy and analytical skills with the ability to research and interrogate large quantities of complex data, in order to provide a wide range of datasets, analysis and statistics

- Have a good understanding or post 16 education funding methodologies, performance measures and Inspection framework

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Excellent organisational and planning skills with the ability to be flexible in your approach

Enjoy our vast array of benefits

As an employee at City Lit you will enjoy a generous holiday entitlement of 35 days plus bank holidays, automatic enrolment to a contributory workplace pension scheme, 85% discount on City Lit Courses and a season ticket loan facility. There is also a wide range of professional development opportunities to support your career path. 

To apply please send your CV to citylit.ac.uk  

Closing Date for completed applications: 23:59, Wednesday  7 February 2018

City Lit promotes and values equality and diversity

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About City Lit

  • City Lit
  • Keeley Street, Covent Garden
  • London
  • WC2B 4BA
  • United Kingdom
+44 20 7492 2600

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Goodbye boring. Hello Interesting

City Lit is where London learns.

Within our bright, modern, flagship building in the creative heart of Covent Garden, classes are taught by inspiring, enthusiastic teachers, many of whom are leading experts and practitioners in their field. It's no wonder that 98% of our learners rate their experience as ‘good’, ‘very good’ or ‘excellent’.

If you believe in bringing people together to enrich lives through learning, then City Lit could be the next step in your career; whether you are a tutor on one of our 5,000 daytime, evening and weekend courses, or part of the department teams behind the scenes that help make this happen… you can be a part of our ongoing success.

To hear about the impact we have had on our students hear it from them http://www.citylit.ac.uk/student-stories-2 

If you have any questions about our current recruitment opportunities please contact the HR team at HR@citylit.ac.uk 

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