Disability in Higher Education - Bristol, United Kingdom - Office for Students

Office for Students
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Office for Students Disability in Higher Education Advisory Panel -committee members

  • Location
  • Remote working attendance of committee meetings in person (London, Bristol, UK) and online
  • Salary
  • An attendance fee of £300 is paid for meetings (including preparation time).
  • Closing date
  • 2 January 202 Contract
  • Fixed term until June 202
  • Hours
  • Part time
  • Industry
  • Higher education
  • Job level
  • Member of committee
We are seeking to appoint expert committee members to join the OfS Disability in Higher Education Advisory Panel. We are looking to appoint up to five independent members to the committee to start in March 2024.

About the OfS

  • The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England. Our primary aim is delivering positive outcomes for students past, present, and future.
  • Our objectives are to ensure that all students, from all backgrounds:
  • Are supported to access, succeed in, and progress from, higher education-
  • Receive high quality academic experience and their interests are protected while they study or in the event of provider, campus or course closure-
  • Are able to progress into employment, further study, and lead fulfilling lives, in which their qualifications hold their value over time.-
  • Receive value for money
  • About the committee
  • The Office for Students (OfS) established the Disability in Higher Education Advisory Panel (DHEAP) as a committee of the OfS board to provide expert advice on enhancing disabled students' experiences in higher education. It will consider and review how universities and colleges currently support disabled students, drawing on evidence, research and analysis from the sector to make recommendations on how to support their educational experience.
  • About you
  • We are looking for committee members who bring extensive experience of being a senior leader at a higher education provider or in a leadership position in disability policy in public, private or third sector organisations.
  • You will have experience of developing and implementing evidencebased effective practice to support equality of opportunity for disabled students. This could be through driving institutional change in inclusive practice; developing and implementing resources to support inclusive practice in teaching and learning; or evaluating inclusive practice.
  • You will be an excellent communicator with experience of influencing decision makers and you will have the ability to collaborate and build coalitions to achieve strategic objectives.
  • Please see the person specification below for a full list of criteria.
  • Skills and experience
  • Essential
To have significant experience, at senior level, of either:

  • a) providing higher education on behalf of an English higher education provider or being responsible for the provision of higher education by such a provider; or
- b) leadership in disability policy in public, private or third sector organisations or
- c) graduate recruitment and employability

  • 2.
Significant experience of developing and implementing evidence-based effective practice to support equality of opportunity for disabled students, in one or more of the following areas:

- a)Driving institutional change in inclusive practice;
- b) Contributed to the knowledge base in this area;
- c) Developing and implementing resources to support inclusive practice in teaching and learning;
- d) Evaluating inclusive practice.

  • 3. Proven ability to communicate complex information with clarity and credibility.
  • 4, Demonstrable experience influencing decision makers and/or practitioners.
  • 5. Ability to use evidence and data to make persuasive arguments and achieve stakeholders buyin.
  • 6. Demonstrable ability to collaborate and build coalitions to achieve strategic objectives.
  • Desirable
  • 7. To be currently engaged in
- a) the provision of higher education or in being responsible for such provision; or
- b) graduate recruitment or
- c) developing disability policy within a private, public or third sector organisation.

  • 8. Demonstrable understanding of disabled students' perspectives on their experience of higher education and/or graduate employability.
  • 9. Demonstrable understanding of access, success and progression students' issues for underrepresented groups.
  • 10. Personal experience of living with a disability.
  • Availability
  • Able to take an active part in the work of the Panel, both in meetings and online and able to attend other relevant events on an ad hoc basis.
Terms of appointment

  • We are appointing members to DHEAP for the duration of the initial term of the committee (until June Members are appointed as individuals and, if they are unable to attend, representatives may not stand in.
  • Members are expected to conform to the standards set out in the OfS members'
- code of conduct

  • Members must also register any relevant personal
- interests.

  • Meeting arrangements and remuneration
  • Members are exp
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