General information

Close Date

05/02/2021

Vacancy details

Job Profile

Administration - Scheduling

Title

Resource Planner

Contract Type

Permanent

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with key stakeholders including the Academic Programme leads, to identify and resource all programme activity involving faculty and associates through the resourcing system
• Collaborate with Heads of Faculty to ensure fair and appropriate allocation of work
• Work with the scheduling team to schedule the required teaching and related activity
• Work with key stakeholders to allocate resource to business development and outreach activities
• Pro-actively develop and manage the relationships with faculty and associate staff
• Organise class cover in the event of tutor sickness and other faculty absence
• Review and authorise/reject faculty holiday requests
• Work with academic programme and support teams to ensure efficient communication across teams to students and faculty regarding class/tutor changes
• Coordinate personal tutor allocations and teaching activity
• Support the freelance payment claims and faculty overtime payments process
• Pro-actively manage student re-sit support provision
• Work with academic quality team to ensure new module development is resourced and managed within workloads
• Work with Faculty Training leads to ensure associate and employed faculty receive adequate training
• Assist Schools with capacity management analysis to identify growing or reducing resource demands and identify expertise gaps
• Work with the Live online delivery team to manage programme adobe requirements and SLAs

Department

Planning and Scheduling

Vacancy location

Location

UK, Nationwide, Nationwide

Candidate criteria

Candidate Criteria

Essential:

• Self-motivated with a proactive and creative approach to problem solving

• You must be capable of organising, time-management and taking ownership of your workload

• Able to consistently work to a high degree of accuracy and possess exceptional attention to detail

• A clear and professional communicator both verbally and in writing

• A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (specifically Word, Excel, Outlook and 365) is essential along with a high level of general digital literacy

• Strong negotiator with experience of managing stakeholder expectations and dealing with difficult conversations

• The ability to work well in a team and be collaborative

• Experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with key internal stakeholders

• Able to work on own initiative without daily supervision

• Agile mind-set with the ability to adapt to last minute changes

Desirable:

• A good level of education including excellent numeracy and literacy skills and the ability to apply logic

• A professional resource planning qualification

• Experience of working in a resourcing environment

• Experience of working with a resourcing system (e.g. Retain)

• Good knowledge of BPP's products

• Relevant experience of resource planning, ideally in an operational educational environment

• Knowledge of legislation regarding working time regulations, policies, terms and conditions of service and Health and Safety

Employment Details

Contract Hours

37.50

FTE

1.00

Salary

28500