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Head of MIS

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 team, building on their success in a collaborative and high-performance culture.

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Job Details

We are seeking an enthusiastic Head of MIS to provide strategic leadership and operational management of the College's Management Information Systems (MIS) function, ensuring the delivery of high quality, accurate and timely data services that support funding compliance, curriculum planning, learner success and strategic decision-making.

In this pivotal leadership role, you will drive the College’s MIS strategy, overseeing learner information systems, reporting infrastructure and data governance. Working closely with curriculum, quality, IT and senior leadership teams, you will champion digital innovation, system integration and smarter ways of working, helping to shape the future of data services across the organisation.

You will provide strategic oversight of funding compliance and audit readiness, ensuring the College meets all regulatory requirements while maximising opportunities through effective data analysis and insight. Leading a dedicated MIS team, you will foster a culture of collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement, whilst supporting the development of key systems including REMS, ProMonitor and ProAchieve.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the College’s digital transformation journey, helping to deliver sector-leading standards in data integrity, compliance and management information services.

 

The Assessment Centre for this role will be held on Thursday 30th July 2026.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Lead and develop the College’s MIS function and strategic direction.
  • Ensure excellence in data quality, funding compliance and audit readiness.
  • Drive innovation, automation and digital transformation initiatives.
  • Develop reporting and business intelligence solutions to support decision making.
  • Work in partnership with the Exams Manager to align learner data and examination processes.
  • Lead, motivate and develop a high-performing MIS team.
  • Support curriculum planning, funding strategy and organisational performance through data insight.

The right candidate will have:

  • Significant MIS leadership experience, ideally within Further Education.
  • Strong understanding of ESFA funding, ILR returns and compliance requirements.
  • Experience managing learner information systems and reporting platforms.
  • Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • A collaborative and proactive leadership style with a passion for continuous improvement.

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:

  • A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
  • Excellent pension provision
  • Annual Staff Awards
  • CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
  • Free onsite parking
  • Staff appreciation days
  • Eye care vouchers
  • Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
  • Well-being days & activities
  • Electric Vehicle Scheme*
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Hybrid Working available
  • Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
  • Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance

* 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.

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