Funding & Data Officer (HMP Huntercombe)

Hours: 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

HMP Huntercombe currently have a vacancy for a full time Funding and Data Officer to work within our education administration team at the prison. This role would suit a highly organised professional, with an excellent eye for detail and a methodical approach to daily tasks.

As a successful Funding and Data Officer, you will be responsible for providing analysis on student recruitment, retention and success data as well as providing accurate end of month data and funding returns to the main college. You will also carry out general administrative tasks throughout the department, ensuring efficient working practices are maintained and enhanced.

The ideal candidate will be:

Highly proficient in using MS Office packages and be able to analyse and produce data charts using spreadsheets.

Be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, ensuring a high quality service, to ensure successful external audits.

More about the rewards:

25 days annual leave, 3 additional days leave for Christmas to New Year closure and UK Bank Holidays

Amazing discounts with NUS card or Blue Light Card , ranging from Eating Out, Shopping and Fashion, Health and Fitness, Music, Technology, Travel and Entertainment

Access to an employee wellbeing platform with options to book free activities such as yoga, relaxation, boot camp, personal training and a health and wellbeing news hub

Access to Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contributions

Busy Bee’s childcare vouchers can save working parents up to £933 per year in a variety of registered childcare, such as Nurseries, Nannies, after school activities, Summer Camps and Breakfast Clubs up the age of 15.

Access to Continued Professional Development, including professional qualifications and a variety of training courses

Save up to 32% off all bikes through our Cycle To Work Scheme

24 hours per day, 365 days per year Employee Assistant Support Programme

Plus many more…

About HMP Huntercombe:

HMP Huntercombe opened as a prison in 1946, the site was originally built as an internment camp during the last war, when for a short period it held Rudolf Hess, on his way south after he famously parachuted into Scotland. Extensive redevelopment has taken place over the last twenty years and there is little left of the wartime buildings.

Currently Huntercombe is a Category C adult male establishment holding a solely foreign national population in order to support government priorities on the deportation of foreign national offenders. Courses delivered within the prison include: P&D, Barbering, Multi-Skills, Hospitality, Business, PSD, Mentoring, Money Management, Art and ESOL. Also Functional Skills based courses including English, Maths and ITQ.

The education department working day is from 7.50am – 4.40pm Monday – Thursday & 7.50am-1.30pm Friday

As a successful candidate, you will:

Good basic general education including GCSE (or) equivalent) in Maths and English at Grade C or above.

Experience of working with and analysing data.

Application of advanced Excel skills in previous roles.

Confident and efficient in the collation of data reports.

Accuracy and precision in data compilation and presentation.

Sensitive to the complexities of prisons or closed institutions and have the ability to work positively within the inherent restraints.Excellent people skills to enable you to deal with learner queries

Able to work independently and to use own initiative.

Work well under pressure and be able to prioritise your workload to meet deadlines.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to problem solve effectively.

Good organisational skills.

The requirement of this role is to work across the whole prison estate, on all wings where education is delivered.

More about the College:

Milton Keynes College is proud to be an open and inclusive general Further Education College welcoming learners of all levels and delivering an exceptional educational experience. The College offers a broad range of qualifications with more than 3,000 16 – 18-year-old full-time students studying traditional A Levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships and Higher Education. In addition, the College delivers employability and key skills training programmes to 3,000 people in local community learning centres and is one of the largest providers of Offender Learning in England, working with 27 prisons across the East Midlands, South Central and West Midlands.

Milton Keynes College is a committed safer recruitment employer. We take extreme care in ensuring the safety and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All positions therefore undergo a stringent vetting process to include DBS for all positions.