Student Support and Placement Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - The School of Information Risk Management

Description

At The School of Information and Risk Management (SIRM) we want to take a genuinely new approach to higher education, rooted in the value we can bring to students, businesses, and the community we serve.

• Deliver outstanding teaching, learning and a destinationfocused experience that will enable our students to succeed in the everchanging world of work.
• Work with employers to help them engage with and invest in talent development, in ways that will support the local and national economy.
• Serve as a genuine asset to the communities in which we operate.

To achieve this, we need the best people: colleagues with deep, practical experience of higher education and who share our passion for our students.

• Ensure that the daytoday welfare and support for students is available as and when needed
• Provide administrative support to the Curriculum Manager
• Support the administrative needs of the Placement Office
• Assist Curriculum Manager in ensuring that all administrative processes are compliant

• Assist all SIRM students with the placements.
• Assist in opendays and provide educational and career information, advice and guidance to students regarding placements.
• Assist with student inductions at work place, ensuring that SIRM policies and procedures are clearly communicated so that students' physical, emotional and educational needs are met.
• Develop links and assist curriculum manager with a robust record keeping of placements logs and documents.
• Develop and add to the database for the curriculum manager, setting up meetings and ensuring more placement and staffing targets are achieved for SIRM.
• Ensure student placement file is complete for each and every learner and that the information is accurate, signed and complete in accordance with the SIRM and awarding body policy.
• Ensure that student obtains a letter or other correspondence for the College that confirms that they are in a placement at the time of admission to SIRM, liaising with the admissions team.
• Meet/ speak with the appointed official/ Mentor at the placement and discuss this guide with them
• Obtain relevant information relating to the place of placement, such as policies, code of conduct and other expectations
• Ensure all observations are recorded on a standard Pearson form (Or whoever the awarding body is) provided by SIRM and reviewed by Program Lead and Curriculum Manager.
• Be responsible for the daytoday student queries and coordination with corporate networks.
• Assist with the organisation of student placements, collating data, correspondence with organisation/institutes, building student and employer data bank for placements.
• Act as first point of contact for faculty/staff/ learners' queries on placements.
• Arrange appointments between students and staff and the placement offices.
• Record keeping of all student Eportfolios (DET) and maintain log sheets for all placements at SIRM.
• Aid/ provide extra support for students with disabilities and learning difficulties
• Liaise with faculty and other staff to monitor progress, identify possible barriers to achievement and ensure appropriate intervention to help individual students to overcome any barrier to the effective learning
• Assist faculty with academic management activities, including but not limited to coordinating the assessment procedures, coordinating and recording internal verification processes, assisting with the preparation for external verification / assessment boards
• Work with Curriculum Manager to plan and implement appropriate interventions when concerns arise that could impact on achievement or progress
• Support Programme Lead and Curriculum Manager with preparation for and during visits from external agencies, coordination for guest speakers and corporate networking.
• Managing SIRM social media and digital engagement.
• Respond to internal enquiries relating to placement issues.
• Monitor completion of required hours and network for more positions and tracking documents for completion of placement data, including dealing with extension requests and extenuating circumstances.
• General typing, including letters, assessment related correspondence to students, agendas and minutes.
• Maintain accurate student records with details of supervision, tutorials, disciplinaries, assessments, extension's, withdrawals.
• Using information systems produce reports as required for data returns, assessment boards, the annual monitoring process, for internal and external use.
• Take part in departmental meetings.
• Keep up to date with the changes in the DET and any other program assigned.
• Undertake other tasks, as directed, to meet the needs of the business; working flexibly; and take personal responsibility for retaining and developing competence.
• Approach training centres for the DET qualification offer to their exi