Head of Procurement and Contracts

22 hours per week, 52 weeks per year

Contract type part-time, permanent

Salary range: £36,244.10 - £39,657.80 (FTE £60,956 - £66,607)

Join us and play a key role in our brilliant journey

“We are passionate about changing lives through education. Further education provides choice like never before and choice is everything, it represents true independence and freedom.”
Katy Quinn, Principal and CEO

These are exciting times at City of Portsmouth College. Thanks to the merger of Highbury and Portsmouth colleges in 2021, we offer hundreds of academic, vocational, technical and blended courses at our four campuses across the city.

Here we believe that learning should be fun. We delight in seeing our students flourish, rediscovering their passions and finding their brilliance.

We’re well on our way to making City of Portsmouth College a unique place to learn and work through a personalised approach to education, an unrivalled quality of learning and an extensive investment programme.

Procurement and contracts are critical to helping us achieve our goals and we love to welcome team members who share our vision, who are keen to make a genuine difference to the lives of school leavers and adult learners alike.

Join us and play a key role in our brilliant journey.

Head of Procurement & Contracts

We’re now looking for an experienced and dynamic Head of Procurement and Contracts to join our friendly, professional and welcoming team. This is a key senior role for the College which is all about getting the best value from the College's purchasing power at the same time as minimising operational risks.

What would I do?*

As Head of Procurement & Contracts you will:

• Be the professional lead for all procurement-related matters. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, you will ensure that all recommendations are compliant with our policies and strategic priorities, as well as consistently delivering outstanding value for money. 

• Carry out process and compliance audits, identifying improvement opportunities as issues arise or as the legislative, funding or regulatory framework changes.
• Develop, maintain, update and implement our procurement and contract management policies, ensuring compliance with our financial regulations, UK legislation, funding and regulatory requirements.
• Focus of making our procurement and contract policies lean, clean and consitently fit for purpose.
• Lead on high value procurement activities, working closely with senior management, heads of department, budget holders, the COO, and the Director of Finance identifying the most cost effective and efficent procurement routes.
• Deliver our expecations on cost, time and quality, ensuring complaince with legislative, funding or regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain external professional networks, working closely with professional partners, including frameworks, ensuring that all learning is shared with us for maximum benefits.

And what’s in it for me?

• 32 days’ annual leave, plus eight bank holidays and two weeks off over Christmas and the New Year.

• A Local Government Pension Scheme to die (or at least retire) for.

• Free courses to sign up to from our Community Adult Education Department.

• An online discount site, offering cut-price days out, entertainment, travel and holidays.

• Bargain hair, barbering and beauty treatments as well as half-price sports centre membership.

• Further fabulous savings online through Unidays, Student Beans and Totum.

• Free car parking across all our sites.

• Access to College facilities with discounted rates for staff Including sports halls and gyms, on-site Nursery, coffee shops and canteens.

• Excellent work-life balance.

Fantastic! How do I apply?

Simply click ‘Apply’ to begin the process of joining us and becoming a part of our brilliant journey.

Please note the closing date for applications listed above. We will only be accepting applications via our job portal.

We reserve the right to withdraw the advert early. In the event of any issues during the application process, please email [email protected].

City of Portsmouth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.  The successful candidate will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS, online and reference check. The College celebrates diversity and aims to recruit a diverse range of staff.

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