Job Introduction
Resource Planner
Here at BPP Education Group an opportunity has arisen for an organised and detail-orientated individual to join the School of Technology team as a Resource Planner. You will be responsible for ensuring resourcing needs for all programmes are identified and managed appropriately using BPP's resourcing system
What if you read the description and don't meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply anyway - we value diverse backgrounds and are committed to inclusivity!
Why work for BPP Education Group?
It is a great time to join BPP Education Group as we have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, offering a wealth of opportunities to our staff, students and clients. There are many more great reasons to join BPP Education Group such as:
- Brilliantly, you can study any of BPP’s courses for free – be it a professional qualification or full degree.
- With hybrid working available, you’ll be able to split your time between one of our centres and wherever you choose to call home.
- We also provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days, and there’s a rewards package that includes retail discounts and much more.
Other key benefits include our Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated private healthcare and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family
What you’ll be doing
In this role you will be responsible for the cost effective and efficient resourcing of BPP programmes. You will ensure that the resourcing needs for all programmes are identified and managed appropriately using BPP's resourcing system. You will also be responsible for the effective organisation of the school’s operational resource demands and for maintaining key relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Finally, you will be required to handle both professional and business information that is of a sensitive and/or confidential nature.
As such, you will be responsible for:
- Work with key stakeholders including the Academic Award Leaders, to identify and resource all programme activity involving faculty and associates through the resourcing system/QV.
- Collaborate with Head of Faculty to ensure fair and appropriate allocation of work
- Work with the scheduling team to schedule the required teaching and related activity
- Work with key stakeholders to allocate resource to business development and outreach activities
- Update the various schedules to ensure all changes are communicated to PSO team and faculty and associates.
- Work with Head of Faculty to ensure FEFs (Freelancer Engagement Forms) are updated and renewed as required.
- Pro-actively develop and manage the relationships with faculty
- Organise class cover in the event of tutor sickness and other faculty absence
- Work with Award Leaders and support teams to ensure efficient communication across teams to students and faculty regarding class/tutor changes
- Work with academic quality team to ensure new module development is resourced and managed within workloads
- Assist School with capacity management analysis to identify growing or reducing resource demands and identify expertise gaps
- Work with the Live online delivery team to manage programme adobe requirements and SLAs
What we’re looking for
To be successful in this role you will need to have a proven track record in the following areas:
Skills, experience & qualifications required - Essential
- Self-motivated with a proactive and creative approach to problem solving
- You must be capable of organising, time-management and taking ownership of your workload
- Able to consistently work to a high degree of accuracy and possess exceptional attention to detail
- A clear and professional communicator both verbally and in writing
- A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (specifically Word, Excel, Outlook and 365) is essential along with a high level of general digital literacy
- Strong negotiator with experience of managing stakeholder expectations and dealing with difficult conversations
- The ability to work well in a team and be collaborative
- Experience of building and maintaining strong relationships with key internal stakeholders
- Able to work on own initiative without daily supervision
- Agile mind-set with the ability to adapt to last minute changes
Skills, experience & qualifications required - Desirable
- A good level of education including excellent numeracy and literacy skills and the ability to apply logic
- A professional resource planning qualification
- Experience of working in a resourcing environment
- Experience of working with a resourcing system (e.g. Retain)
- Good knowledge of BPP's products
- Relevant experience of resource planning, ideally in an operational educational environment
- Knowledge of legislation regarding working time regulations, policies, terms and conditions of service and Health and Safety
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic DBS check.
BPP Education Group are proud to be a Disability Confident employer so if you need any reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please just let us know!
BPP Education Group actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. BPP will select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Please note that for those posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check in addition to BPP undertaking any necessary online searches. This is deemed appropriate and necessary from a safeguarding perspective, and in line with BPP’s safer recruitment practices
BPP Education Group reserves the right to amend or withdraw this advertisement at any time prior to the closing date, should we receive a high volume of applications or if business needs change.
