Job Description

Salary

24,484.92 - 25,674.36

Contractual hours

36.66

Basis

Full Time

Package

Excellent Benefits

Job category/type

Support Staff

Date posted

02/07/2025

Job reference

2020OC1097

We are looking for:

Bursary Advisor

24,484.92 - 25,674.36

The Role:

The Bursary Advisor is responsible for ensuring the accurate and efficient disbursement of various College bursary funds.



This role involves delivering high-quality administrative support while promoting equality of opportunity. The officer will serve as the primary point of contact for all bursary services offered at Oldham College, interacting with students and staff in person, by phone, or through email.



The role requires a commitment to providing excellent customer service and maintaining best practices in all interactions.

Requirements:

Experience of administrative financial work in a busy office environment. Experience of absorbing and summarising complex information and advising others on this. Experience of working under pressure and multi-tasking in a busy environment. Experience of working in a customer-centered environment and interacting with a wider range of people face to face, over the phone and via email. GCSE Maths and English Grade 4 or equivalent.

Joining our Journey:

When you join our college, not only will you benefit from an annual reviewed salary but have access to numerous benefits and facilities:
Generous Pension Scheme Fantastic Staff Benefits and Rewards platform Very generous holiday entitlement Employee Assistance Scheme Enhanced Maternity/Paternity provision Staff Development days/week (Jan, July, Aug) Free confidential counselling service Staff recognition awards Car Scheme Subsidised car parking On-site Day Nursery On-site hair and beauty salon

We are a local college with a reputation for dynamism and success and provide high level technical and vocational education and training.

We embrace and encourage all those who are driven to better themselves, achieve their goals and reach new heights. Excellent resources combined with exceptional tutors and student support means that whatever your ambition, we can help you to achieve it.

Inclusivity:

We are committed to inclusion which is reflected across our diverse student body. However, we still have work to do to ensure that our talented workforce fully reflects the diversity of our wider community. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply to join our team.

When you apply for a role, we'll ask you for some equality data. Your answers are kept strictly confidential at all times by HR. The data we collect helps us to identify any disproportionate outcomes for applicants and to target our positive actions that will address them.

We recognise that everybody has a life outside work; we're happy to discuss flexible working with you. Although we can't promise that we will be able to give you exactly what you want, we can promise that we will carefully consider your request and we certainly won't judge you for asking.

Requirements:

The role will require you to embed and work to the college's values; working with Integrity, having Ambition to help our learners succeed and being Inclusive to learners and colleagues alike.

Our ambition is to be "The Best Place to Learn and Work". We expect a lot from you, so we want ambitious, open minded candidates, who are ready to give their best. But we give a lot in return, from training to pensions, our own benefits package, and one of the best and most helpful group of colleagues you could ever wish to meet.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable laws, a pre-employment screening could include, employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the role.

Oldham College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.

Any appointments will be subject to enhanced DBS checks and a check of the DfE Barred List

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation Act 1974. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children and vulnerable adults.