Apprenticeship Manager Construction & Healthcare
We are seeking an experienced Apprenticeship Manager to provide effective leadership for Work Based Tutors (WBT) and support the apprenticeship area to help the college achieve its goal of becoming an outstanding, innovative, customer‑focused provider, improving recruitment and ensuring service excellence for all.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage Work Based Tutors to ensure efficient delivery of apprenticeship standards that meet the needs of apprentices and employers.
- Lead and support curriculum innovation to meet learners and employers’ needs in line with national, regional and local government agendas.
- Promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development, and innovation, and facilitate sharing of best practice.
- Support the Apprenticeship Director in ensuring high-performing teams via effective use of the college’s performance management system, including monthly 1‑1 review meetings and annual appraisals.
- Lead, motivate and support the teams so that they can make a full and valued contribution to the development of the programme area.
- Coordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the college’s exams team.
- Support the Apprenticeship Quality Practitioner ensuring OFSTED requirements are consistently met for the quality delivery of apprenticeship programmes.
- Support the Data and Compliance Manager ensuring compliance with ESFA requirements and internal systems and processes.
- Effectively manage the programme teams to ensure all aspects of the college’s quality assurance processes are fully implemented.
- Support the Director of Apprenticeships with the production of a robust self‑assessment report engaging work‑based tutors.
- Support and lead the team to fully prepare for external/internal inspection.
- Support the Apprenticeship Quality and Compliance Manager to ensure OneFile and Maytas audits, work‑based tutor and peer observations, are carried out to meet college quality priorities.
- Ensure the coordination of all end‑point assessments (EPA) for apprenticeships is timely.
- Work with marketing and other partners to raise the profile of the provision and subsequent growth.
- Support the development of commercial courses and apprenticeships, both in‑house and virtual, that meet the needs of employers when required.
- Ensure data information (e.g. projected achievements) is provided timely for the Apprenticeship Operational Group meeting.
- Be an active member of the College Wider Management Group.
- Ensure continuous development and improvement of professional knowledge.
- Any other duties of a similar level of responsibility as may be required.
Skills & Expertise
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Capable of representing the college in a professional manner with external agencies and stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational and prioritising skills.
- The ability to lead a team and also work as part of a team.
- Knowledge of the principles of data protection.
- Ability to use technology to generate information and improve efficiency.
Qualifications
- Essential Criteria
- Level 3 qualification in a related apprenticeship area.
- Desirable Criteria
- Degree and/or relevant professional qualification.
- Strong IT skills.
- Level 4 Internal Quality Assurance.
Experience
- Essential Criteria
- Recent experience in apprenticeship delivery.
- Academic/industrial/commercial experience in one of the areas of the standards.
- Experience of using college‑wide systems, including OneFile/Maytas.
- Excellent IT skills with experience using databases that assist in the management and monitoring of apprenticeship delivery.
- Working with apprenticeship and curriculum teams.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills.
- Ability to multi‑task to ensure deadlines are met and work under pressure.
- Desirable Criteria
- Management experience including responsibility for quality, staff and apprenticeship delivery.
Specialist Knowledge
- Knowledge of funding rules within apprenticeships.
- Good understanding of End‑Point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs).
IT Skills
- Advanced user of Microsoft applications.
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function and Industry
Management and Manufacturing; Building Construction
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