Senior Consultant, Tertiary Education Insight

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Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries.

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Role

Lead global tertiary education research, insights, and engagement initiatives that strengthen partnerships and drive impact in higher education and skills development. Ensure high-quality programme delivery, foster strategic collaboration, and generate evidence-based insights that inform decision-making, support innovation, and create measurable value across global and country networks.

Role Accountabilities

- Leads smaller projects or key project workstreams, ensuring project plans, resource efficiency, and delivery of income, impact, profitability, and performance targets.
- Collaborates with country, tertiary education, and external stakeholders to agree quality, revenue, margin, volume, impact, time, and cost targets.
- Delivers and adapts team work plans in response to changing business and local contexts, ensuring global programme outputs.
- Manages the development of high-quality content with country teams and local stakeholders.
- Builds strong stakeholder relationships to understand needs and drive continuous improvement in service, programme, and product delivery.
- Leads key Research Insight and Policy Dialogue activities, supporting policy development, stakeholder engagement, and joint content delivery.
- Leads research publication, webinar development, and stakeholder engagement, promoting innovative research and delivering global programme outcomes.
- Embeds EDI across content and processes, identifies capability needs, and promotes EDI and anti-racism standards through development initiatives.
- Assesses and manages delivery risks, ensures contingency planning, investigates non-compliance, and implements corrective actions.
- Uses data, analysis, and operational insight to recommend improvements that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualification

Education

- Degree or equivalent experience

Role Specific Skills

- Understanding / knowledge of research development.
- Familiarity with statistical software and data visualisation tools.
- Applied knowledge and experience of UK and international higher education
- Demonstrates commitment to EDI and anti-racism through inclusive behaviours, decisions, and actions that support an inclusive culture, programmes, products, and services.

Role Specific Knowledge and Experience

Essential

- Strong capability of working across different cultures.
- Knowledge of the UK and international HE systems.
- Managing and understanding internal and external stakeholder needs and experience of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
- Demonstrable experience in data collection, analysis and insightful and research report writing
- Demonstrated experience of using technology effectively in the workplace and incorporating effective digital practices into project delivery
- Proficient with leading evaluation activities within projects, including lessons learnt exercises, and implementing change based on insights to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- Understands and promotes ethical conduct, and able to ensure that own behaviour and the behaviour of others is consistent with these standards and values of the British Council.

Desirable

- Association of Project Management (or equivalent) certification at practitioner level

- Demonstrated ability to manage teams and projects in line with Centre of Excellence Project Management Standards.

Important Information

Business Division: Education
Language requirement: Proficient written and spoken English
Pay Band: 8
Country/Location:  United Kingdom
Working Arrangement: Hybrid
Contract Type: Indefinite Contract (Permanent)
Contract Hours: Full time - 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Starting Annual Gross Salary: £40,179

Benefits for the UK include, but are not limited to:

- 32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays
- 3 days volunteering leave
- Career average defined benefit pension scheme
- An unrivalled opportunity for you to get to use all the experience you’ve built up working in and/or leading global organisations to support us in building trust across the world.

Closing Date: 19 October 2026 at 11:59 PM IST and 19 October 2026 at 07:29 PM BST

Background Checks:   Employment with the British Council is subject to satisfactory background checks, both before appointment and periodically during employment, as required. The nature and level of checks will depend on the role and applicable local laws.

Proof of Identity requirements/right to work in country: Candidates should ensure they have the pre-existing legal right to live and work in the country where the role is based. Mobility / relocation / visa sponsoring support will not be provided.

A connected and trusted UK in a more connected and trusted world.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Statement

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community as we believe that a diverse workforce gives added depth to our work. The British Council is a Disability Confident Employer. The Disability Confident scheme helps challenge attitudes, increase understanding of disability and ensure staff are drawn from the widest possible pool of talent. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the minimum role requirements. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

Safeguarding Statement

The British Council is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed in line with legal requirements and with the British Council’s Safeguarding policies for Adults and Children.

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