Senior Student Success Tutor (BSU)

GBS Global Applied Knowledge; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading higher education provider is seeking a Senior Student Success Tutor to manage a team of tutors, ensuring high-quality delivery of student services. You will respond to student needs, collaborate with faculty to enhance support, and ensure effective communication with students. The ideal candidate will possess strong supervisory skills and experience in student-focused roles. This role is based on-site in various locations across the UK.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus public holidays

Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work

Discretionary annual performance bonus

Qualifications

• Experience in directing academic student support functions.
• Proficient in MS Office applications like Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to work independently and supervise a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage Student Success Tutors and ensure high-quality student services.
• Collaborate with Faculty Manager and other colleagues for student support.
• Respond to complex student concerns in a timely manner.

Skills

Customer/student focused approach

Effective supervisory skills

Conflict management skills

Proficiency in MS Office

Organizational skills

Job description

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Location: Role holder can be located in East London, West London, Manchester, Birmingham, or Leeds (On-Site)

Type of Contract: Permanent

About Us: GBS is a higher education provider offering a range of sector-relevant courses across ten campuses in London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester. Working in partnership with several of the UK’s leading higher education providers, we deliver vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in finance, accounting, business, construction, tourism, healthcare – and more.

Our Vision: Changing Lives through Education

The Role: Senior Student Success Tutors (SSSTs) directly manage Student Success Tutors (SSTs) and ensure high quality delivery of timely student services across academic levels. To ensure that SST provide the highest levels of pastoral, learning and IT support to students, inside and outside of the classroom.

You will develop a strong relationship with our student retention team to support at risk students. Responsible for providing consistent, accurate and timely responses to student needs and enquiries. SSST are also required to take direct charge of students with complex needs and groups of concern. ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship!

Location

England

Appointment Type

Permanent

Department

Student Support

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full-time

Hours

40

Competitive

Entity

GBS UK

Ref No

5097

Main Responsibilities

What the Role Involves:

• To line manage SST’s in their duties to support student success
• Collaborate with the Faculty Manager to ensure SSTs are scheduled for the appropriate ratio of in-class support sessions and individual Moodle appointments
• Timely completion of complex team queries, such as assessment submissions, action logs, withdrawals and authorised absences
• Collaborating with the Associate Dean – Student Success who has dotted line management (direct or indirect), to support and advance student success initiatives
• Respond to complex student concerns in timely manner and check shared data and live trackers are updated and accurate
• To collaborate with GBS colleagues on workshops, events, career fairs, and other student events, to enhance the student experience
• To collaborate with Associate Deans and Level Leaders to ensure communication with students is timely, accurate and effective, employing a range of digital and in person methods

Requirements

About You:

• Experience of directing and overseeing academic student support functions and coaching with a strong sense of service delivery and a customer/student focused approach
• Proficiency in MS Office applications such as Excel, Word, Outlook Mail. Experience of working in a widening participation environment
• Ability to work independently and supervise as part of a team. Effective supervisory and people skills (active listening, excellent written & verbal communication and line management skills) with remarkable organisational and conflict management skills
• Ability to supervise the handling of sensitive and personal information with tact and confidentiality and use initiative and judgement to resolve line management matters. Maintain working relationships with appropriate boundaries
• Ability to be flexible to work days, evenings and weekends as required.
• Evidence of a professional approach in a student or customer focused service
• Be committed to working as part of a team, be responsive to changing student and business needs
• Evidence of a proactive outlook to work in an agile environment, and work under pressure to meet deadlines

Other Information

What we offer:

• 25 days annual leave, plus 8 public holidays
• 1-day extra leave per year of service, up to a maximum of 5 days
• Flexible Benefits: Cycle to Work, Workplace Nursery, Techscheme and much more
• Reward and recognition programme
• £500 award employee referral scheme
• Discretionary annual performance bonus

“GBS has been a good place for professional growth. I have received great support from managers and colleagues who have encouraged me to develop new skills and take on more senior roles. Their mentorship has been invaluable to help me advance in my career.”

GBS is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and providing a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities. We take our core values seriously and work hard to create an environment where everyone feels welcomed.