Head of MIS & Exams

Play a pivotal role in strengthening the College’s reputation for outstanding data management, compliance, and digital innovation, ensuring that every student journey is underpinned by high-quality information services. Inspire and elevate our MIS and Exams teams, building on their success in a collaborative and high-performance culture.

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Play a pivotal role in strengthening the College’s reputation for outstanding data management, compliance, and digital innovation, ensuring that every student journey is underpinned by high-quality information services. Inspire and elevate our MIS and Exams teams, building on their success in a collaborative and high-performance culture.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Lead and inspire high-performing MIS and Exams teams to deliver exceptional service.
  • Drive the development and integration of smart, agile information systems that empower staff and enhance learner outcomes.
  • Ensure full compliance with DfE, awarding bodies, and regulatory standards, delivering audit-ready data returns with confidence.
  • Use data and analytics to shape strategic decisions, curriculum planning, and funding optimisation.
  • Champion a culture of digital innovation, smarter working, and continuous improvement across college systems.
  • Collaborate cross College, influencing the future of information services, business planning, and digital transformation.

The right candidate will have:

  • Brings proven leadership in MIS, Exams, ILR compliance, or related functions.
  • Has strong expertise in funding methodologies, data governance, and system integration.
  • Is a strategic thinker with a passion for digital innovation and agile service development.
  • Can inspire teams, drive change, and maintain a relentless focus on accuracy, compliance, and service excellence.
  • Holds relevant qualifications or can demonstrate equivalent professional experience and growth.

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.