Timetable Co-Ordinator

USP College are looking to employ an enthusiastic Timetable Co-Ordinator to assist in the daily running of the College timetables.

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Job Details

Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about creating structure that empowers others? We’re looking for a Timetable Coordinator to join our dynamic team and play a vital role in ensuring every student and staff member starts their day on the right foot.

As Timetable Coordinator, you’ll lead the planning, development, and maintenance of timetables and course schedules across the College. Your work will ensure our teaching, learning, and support functions run smoothly helping staff and students get the most out of every day.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end creation and management of student and staff timetables.
  • Develop planning tools in partnership with Curriculum Directors.
  • Maintain and update course information within the College’s Management Information System (MIS).
  • Coordinate changes to student groups and timetables with minimal disruption.
  • Ensure accuracy across all course listings on internal and external platforms.
  • Track course funding eligibility and support audit readiness.
  • Monitor attendance systems and troubleshoot data-related issues.
  • Manage classroom allocations and ensure space is used efficiently.
  • Provide user support for MIS platforms and contribute to continuous process improvement.
  • Support wider college data entry tasks including enrolments, outcomes, and destinations.
  • Deliver excellent customer service to internal and external stakeholders.

Job Requirements:

Essential:

  • A high standard of education or equivalent substantial relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of timetabling processes and related data management.
  • Advanced Excel skills (e.g., formulas, lookups, pivot tables).
  • Strong organisational skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • A collaborative mindset and ability to lead cross-departmental tasks.
  • Attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.

Desirable:

  • Experience working in a Further Education (FE) setting.
  • Understanding of curriculum management and support systems.
  • Computer-related qualifications or formal training.

The right candidate will have:

  • High standards of communication and interpersonal skills.
  • The ability to work as a team.
  • A strong attention to detail.
  • The ability to work towards deadlines.
  • Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Excellent attendance and punctuality.

Why choose us?

Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.

What we offer:

* subject to terms & conditions

This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.  It is an offence to apply for the role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a self-declaration of their criminal record or information that would make them unsuitable to work with children. Self-declaration is subject to Ministry of Justice guidance on the disclosure of criminal records, further information can be found on GOV UK

USP College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, we therefore expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service, and any other checks that the role requires to ascertain suitability for working with children and/or vulnerable adults, which may include online searches.

We will hold and process any personal data, including sensitive (special category) personal data, relating to you in accordance with our legal obligations, in the manner set out in the Privacy Notice for staff and in accordance with our Data Protection Policy, which is set out on the College’s website, found here. You should familiarise yourself with our Data Protection Policy (and all other subsidiary policies to it) and comply with them at all times. Neither the Privacy Notice for Staff nor those policies form a part of your contract of employment.