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About British Council :

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognized qualifications. Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries.

In 2021–22 we reached 650 million people. A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Team leadership of about 50 people, with direct line-management responsibilities for 5-6 members of program management team.
• Ensuring successful delivery of the contract and that the KPIs are met or exceeded. Submitting regular progress reports to the FCDO.
• Stakeholder management, including main point of contact with FCDO relating to the programme, with the MACC and with a wider range of key stakeholders.
• Responsibility for monthly management control and compliance checks and ensuring risks and issues are actively managed and escalated for resolution where required.

• Financial management, ensuring that internal processes for payments of scholar stipends are accurate and timely, and that all reporting to FCDO, MACC and for internal financial compliance is carried out.

• Effective internal and external communication, in accordance with program requirements.

• Ensuring scholar welfare and well-being is appropriately supported, including safeguarding

• Ensuring and championing equality, diversity and inclusion.

Requirements of the role:

• Scholarship Management: Must have a proven track record of designing and/or delivering a significant scholarship management activity, ideally relating to international students studying in the UK.

• Knowledge and prior experience of delivering delivered project activities within a UK higher education setting or context.

• An understanding, based on experience, of international higher education, in particular student recruitment and marketing.

• EDI: A proven commitment to delivering activities and embedding EDI into program plans and delivery.

Further Information

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until 31st August 2025, with possible extension subject to renewal of contract with FCDO.

Location: London Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh or Belfast. (UK Only).

Salary: Competitive package (External) Closing Date: 14th August 2023 at 23:59 UK Time.

Benefits include, but are not limited to:

• 32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays

• 3 days volunteer leave

• Career average defined benefit pension scheme An unrivaled opportunity for you to get to use all the experience you've built up working in and/or leading global organizations to support us in building trust across the world.

Interviews will be held around the beginning of September 2023. Please Note that the post holder must be able to work physically from the British Council office in London (Stratford) regularly and travel frequently to central London for meetings with FCDO, MACC and other stakeholders.

This does not preclude the postholder being substantively located at one of the other British Council offices in the UK