IQA Officer

Apprenticeships

Location: Greenwich Campus

Salary: £37,099 to £42,978 plus £5269 London weighting per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Reference: 4500-E

Apprenticeships play a key part in the University's 2030 strategy 'Education without Boundaries' and we have ambitious plans to grow our apprenticeship provision across all faculties. We are looking to appoint an experienced IQA Officer to joining our growing team.

This is a new role within the Apprenticeship hub that sits in the Directorate of Employability and Apprenticeships, and there is scope to develop new, and scale existing, standard operating procedures. This role will be responsible for quality performance and undertake Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) activities within our apprenticeship provisions to ensure colleagues adhere to the high standards of quality and compliance.

You will ensure that learners are adequately prepared for their End-Point Assessment (EPA) while meeting all regulatory requirements and be a key contributor to the self-assessment procedures, actively contributing to plans for enhancing quality to improve the overall learner experience and outcomes.

You will work with the programme leads and University Quality Assurance team to ensure that there are robust checks on apprenticeship learning, verifying, and confirming apprenticeship end-point assessment decisions, analysing learner outcomes to inform improvement activity, and undertaking quality assurance activity across all stages of the learner journey.

There will be close collaboration with apprenticeship skills coaches, providing guidance and advice and ensuring high-quality progress reviews, and standardisation in good practice across the programmes.

You need to be able to form good working relationships with a range of both internal and external stakeholders and be committed to maintaining up-to-date knowledge of any changes from the various regulatory bodies we work with.

Please note, there is a minimum requirement of 2 days a week working onsite, one of which will be a fixed day at the Greenwich Campus.

For an informal discussion about the post please contact Gianina Harvey-Brewin Associate Director Employability and Apprenticeships Or Anna McMenamin Associate Director Employability and Apprenticeships (job share)

Should you have any recruitment related queries please contact the People Directorate Operations Team on peopleoperations-

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To apply, please visit the University of Greenwich vacancies page and complete all details, including the supporting statements (please note attached CVs and personal statements will not be seen by the recruitment panel at the application stage).

Employment Visa: Under the UK Government Points Based System scheme this role does not meet the criteria to be sponsored for a Skilled Worker Route application.

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