Head of Apprenticeships and Employer Skills

3 days ago


Darlington, United Kingdom RECRUITMENTiQ Full time

RECRUITMENTiQ are delighted to be working with a Government body who are seeking a Head Of Apprenticeships And Employer Skills to be based out of Darlington.
**Working Pattern**:
This post is available on a full time, part time or job share basis, and flexible working hours can be accommodated
**Location**
Darlington
**About the Role**:
This is an exciting and stretching role requiring strategic thinking, strong policy judgement, and excellent leadership skills The role holder will be responsible for spending and policy advice on apprenticeships and employer engagement in skills.
This will require them to become the agencies knowledge expert on the policy area and funding systems, and develop strong working relationships across the Treasury, Department for Education (DfE), wider government and externally. This would suit someone withan interest in education policy and/or public spending. There is significant Ministerial interest in the policy area.
**What you will bring to the team**:

- **Leading on their policy development for apprenticeships.** Your work will span the economic and finance functions of the Treasury: you will lead on shaping the Treasury’s input into skills policy by balancing fiscal considerations alongsidethe role of skills in broader agendas such as productivity and growth.
- **Responsibility for their spending control on apprenticeships**, where the DfE will spend around £2.7 billion p.a. by 24-25. You will be responsible for monitoring DfE’s spending and ensuring delivery of key priorities.
- **Leading on their policy development for employer skills. **You will develop ideas to improve employer engagement with and understanding of the skills system.
- **Owning the their relationships with a range of senior policy officials across government** and building collaborative relationships with key stakeholders inside government and externally. You will proactively build and maintain strong relationshipsin the Treasury and with DfE and other government departments.
- **Being an active leader in the Education and Skills team and wider group, **where you will especially focus on supporting the Darlington-based contingent of the team.
- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.
**Some of the Benefits their people love**:

- 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional2 days off each month.
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) and arrangements
- Generous parental and adoption leave packages
- Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions.
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
- A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.



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