Student Funding Officer - Oxford, United Kingdom - University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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Oxford, United Kingdom

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Description

The University of Oxford is a stimulating work environment, which enjoys an international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence.

Our research plays a key role in tackling many global challenges, from reducing our carbon emissions to developing vaccines during a pandemic.

Department

The provision of scholarships for graduate students is an area of crucial importance for the University, ensuring that talented people can undertake their studies regardless of their financial circumstances.

The Student Fees and Funding (SFF) office assists in this by managing scholarship programmes and supporting other scholarship providers. SFF currently manages around 200 university scholarship programmes for over 1,300 students, worth around £44m per year.

This role offers the opportunity to deliver an exciting new scholarship scheme, working closely with colleges, and supporting existing schemes within the growing SFF portfolio.

The role is offered for a fixed term of 2 years.

What We Offer
As an employer, we genuinely care about our employees' wellbeing and this is reflected in the range of benefits that we offer including:

An excellent contributory pension scheme
38 days annual leave
A comprehensive range of childcare services
Family leave schemes
Cycle loan scheme
Discounted bus travel and Season Ticket travel loans
Membership to a variety of social and sports clubs

This role also offers the opportunity for hybrid working.

About the Role

In this role, you will support the delivery of a new matching funding programme for graduate scholarships, working closely with a group of Colleges and Permanent Private Halls to transform the funding and support opportunities available to their graduate students through creating new scholarships.

Alongside this you will manage a portfolio of existing graduate scholarships, including running selection processes, liaising with scholarship partners (such as colleges and academic departments), and supporting the scholars once they are on course.

This role directly supports the ambition of ensuring that academically outstanding students should be able to take up their places to study at Oxford regardless of their financial means or background.

About You
You will need to be innovative, well-organised, meticulous, and able to establish good working relationships with our partners.

You will draw on your numeracy and IT skills, pro-actively improving the administration of your scholarships and enabling them to keep on making a positive difference to our students' lives.

Application Process
**Interviews will take place during week commencing 31 July 2023.