Vacancies

ACER is currently recruiting for the following vacancies. To apply, please send your CV to sarah.barnard-mitcham@acer.ac.uk together with the completed Equal Opportunities form (click here to download), or by post to ACER, Suite 1 Lancaster House, Meadow Lane, St Ives, Cambs PE27 4LG. If you have any queries please contact Sarah on 01480 468198.

Regional Procurement Manager

Location: Eastern Region

The primary focus of the role is to lead, manage and to further develop the regional procurement service for member further education colleges with the strategic aim of delivering demonstrable efficiency savings and improving quality of procurement throughout the region.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced procurement manager educated to degree level with a CIPS Diploma qualification, to manage and coordinate procurement contracts and tenders, as well as providing legislative and strategic procurement guidance for ACER’s member colleges.

Management responsibilities will include coordinating and leading on college procurement strategies and projects, as well as advising on procurement legislation and compliance, specifically with OJEU projects, either with individual or collaborative groups of colleges. Therefore knowledge and experience in this area, particularly within the Public Sector is an essential requirement of the post.

A large part of post holders responsibilities will lie in delivering regional support to the colleges, by way of encouraging best practice, securing links and negotiating with consortia and suppliers to benefit the procurement strategies within the region as well as ensuring colleges can measure their procurement effectiveness by means of the Efficiency Measurement model (EMMFE) and other KPI’s.

If you are an experienced senior procurement manager with a wide range and breadth of experience of different industries within private and public sectors, with knowledge and experience of public sector procurement legislation including experience of running OJEU tenders then we would be keen to hear from you.

For further information and to apply for the role, please send an up to date copy of your CV along with details of salary expectations to Katie Langham at Katie.langham@acer.ac.uk

Closing date: Friday 17th September

Consultants wanted

We are looking for high-quality consultants to join us to help support our expanding portfolio of professional development and consultancy work.

We require individuals who are passionate about improving quality and supporting the changes in the further education sector. You will need to be an expert in your subject, have recent experience of further education and excellent communication skills.

In particular, we would like to recruit consultants for the following areas to deliver programmes from September:

• Equality, Diversity and Disability
• Teaching and Learning reforms
• Student support, including child protection, every child matters, IAG
• Progression, distance travelled and value added
• MIS Data and funding expertise
• Inspection and quality improvement
• Personal and management development
• E-learning and high level IT skills
• HR - strategic and operational

In order to support our growing research agenda, we also require consultants with qualitative and quantitative research skills and experience.

This is an opportunity for self-employed consultants.

If you are interested in consultancy work at ACER, please forward your CV in electronic format, along with a completed electronic version of this form to Christine Stewart.