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Closing Date: 12/10/2021

Head of Data and Compliance
Permanent
Full-Time
West End, London
Circa £50-£55K per annum

About Fashion Retail Academy:

The Fashion Retail Academy (Ofsted outstanding) is a unique, industry led academy. Founded by retail giants, we offer a range of exclusive Fashion courses with unparalleled industry involvement to ensure our students gain the skills and contacts needed to successfully progress to employment.

Supported by and working closely with over 130 fashion brands from high street staples to digital giants and luxury brands, we offer a wide range of specialist fashion Diploma, Degree and Short courses, many of these exclusive to the FRA with start dates throughout the year.

Our courses are developed with industry partners to provide our students with a combination of in-depth Fashion Retail knowledge and unrivalled hands-on practical industry experience (which include high quality occupationally relevant work placements, industry masterclasses from the leading figures in industry, live commercial projects and our industry preparation enrichment). Our graduates leave with a wide range of skills and experience guaranteeing them the fastest route into work.

About the role:

We are seeking a pro-active and innovative Head of Data and Compliance to collaborate productively with our Quality and Enhancement, Business Intelligence, IT and Curriculum delivery teams.

The key responsibilities for this role will be to deliver a service meeting the FRA requirements for high quality, complete and timely student information and to uphold and enhance practices for collection, storage and processing of data.

The Head of Data and Compliance will actively participate in FRA strategic initiatives, work with the Senior Management Team, lead and mentor the Registry Manager to administer admissions, enrolment, data submissions and funding claims, loans and bursaries, exams, resource planning and timetabling.

We are looking for someone to advise, support and mentor staff in the use of technology to improve data quality and ensure FRA compliance with statutory requirements of external and internal stakeholders for data storage and Data Protection, audit, financial management and forecasting. You will therefore have detailed knowledge and understanding of funding methodology, in particular for post-compulsory 16-19 year old education.

You must be able to identify opportunities for improvement in use of existing applications (including REMS) to provide accurate, complete and up to date learner data and have a collaborative approach with peers to ensure FRA benefits from this work (through maximised funding opportunities, excellent external and internal audit assurance, reliable data for business intelligence and future strategic development).

For more information about us, visit our website and refer to the job description and person specification available to download.

If you are looking to further develop your career, then we would love to hear from you!

How to apply: Please create an account and click Start Application to submit an application.

Closing Date: On-going.

Please contact our Recruitment team at recruitment@fra.ac.uk for further information about this campaign.

 

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