Lead IQA Children & Young People Level 4 & Level 5

Start date: as soon as possible

Location: home, peripatetic and office in Kent

Salary: £34,000 PA

Interviews: To be confirmed via Zoom

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Background and Context

ABM Training UK Ltd

ABM Training is an Apprenticeship provider funded through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). We train apprentices through the Apprenticeship Levy scheme with a focus on Health and Care, Early Years, Teacher and Teaching Assistant training, Customer Service, Business, Leadership and Management. Over the next five years our programme will expand to include Digital Marketing, Finance, and Insurance. We currently support a wide range of clients in Kent, Surrey, Southeast London, and the Midlands.

Where We’re Going

We are completely shaking up what we do and how we do it. We’ve been around for 11 years or so, but things have changed, and the world has changed too. We’re innovating and creating new and exciting ways to deliver apprenticeships and we have ambitious growth targets - more than doubling the size of our business in 18 months and then again in 36 months. We’re more like a start-up than an established business in the way we think and develop, and we’re very much focused on ed-tech.

Line Manager/responsible to: Curriculum Director

Responsible for: Children & Young People

Role Summary

The role comprises management of the IQA function, processes, and systems as well as IQA duties. To line manage three Skills Tutors to ensure effective delivery and quality assurance of all qualifications for full compliance with the requirements of external bodies - Awarding Organisations and EPAO. Conduct IQA sampling to support the IQA team.

Lead IQA Duties

Provide feedback and L&D support to IQAs to develop their practice to ensure systems and processes are being followed.
Monitor, support and co-ordinate the work of the IQA working group and/or trainee IQAs.
Ensure all Skills Tutor development observations and standardisations are planned and carried out in a timely manner to facilitate the development of a highly skilled and effective delivery team.
Work effectively with other IQAs to maximise the opportunity for ABM to achieve its aims.
Monitor and support the Skills Tutors and IQA team with any contribution to assessor performance reviews to facilitate the development of a highly skilled and effective delivery team.
Identify L&D needs of Skills Tutors to ensure that they have skills, knowledge, and competence to fulfil their role.
Monitor learner progression escalating any concerns.
Escalate any Skills Tutor / IQA concerns with the Curriculum Director.
Allocate IQAs to new Skills Tutors and ensure effective IQA support and mentoring for all new Skills Tutors.
Coordinate IQA standardisation meetings to ensure consistent practice throughout the IQA team including trainee IQAs.

IQA Duties

Sample qualifications in line with sampling plan, risk banding and IQA strategy.
Ensure all IQA documentation is completed adhering to Awarding Organisation and company standards.
Maintain the integrity of all programmes by reporting any suspected malpractice or maladministration are followed.
Provide feedback and advice to Skills Tutors to develop their assessment practices and ensure that trainee assessors' assessment decisions are countersigned.
Plan and conduct learner interviews in line with the IQA strategy to ensure quality of delivery.

Awarding Organisations

Liaise with Awarding Organisations (AO) to agree sampling timeline and lead on external Quality Assurance (EQA) visits.
Complete centre updates to inform AO of any changes to delivery team as and when required.

Continuous Improvement

Ensure that cross cutting themes are included in the curriculum and that activities are planned and implemented.
Contribute to the implementation, monitoring and development of the QIP and SAR Process.
Ensure information gathered during good practice groups is routinely disseminated and shared.
Monitor the impact of achievement rates working with the Curriculum Director to focus on areas of risk.
Lead on the planning and implementation of curriculum design to ensure learner resources are current and fit for purpose.

Line Managers Duties

Fully engage with your Line Manager communicating information and highlighting any support needs or concerns within the team and highlight areas of best practice.
Engage the team in decision making taking on board suggestions and ideas, ensuring the loop is closed when the final decision is made.
Regularly check the well-being of the team members whom you manage.
Ensure effective communication, by passing on information whilst being considerate of remote workers at all times.
Regularly review the departments staffing needs with the Curriculum Director, ensuring the department is appropriately staffed on an ongoing basis.

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