Apprenticeship Manager – Construction

You will be responsible for providing effective leadership for the Work Based Tutors (WBT). Supporting and working with the Apprenticeship Data and Compliance manager, Apprenticeship Quality Practitioner and Director of Apprenticeships ensuring the apprenticeship area contributes and achieves the College's objectives of becoming an outstanding, innovative and customer focussed provider that ensures growth in recruitment and delivers service excellence for all.

• To manage the Work Based Tutors ensuring highly efficient delivery of the apprenticeship standards that is effective and meets the need of the apprentice and the employer.
• To lead and support curriculum innovation within the team to ensure the Apprenticeship offer is effective in meeting the needs of learners and employers in line with national, regional and local government agenda.
• To promote excellence in all aspects of the curriculum, management development and Innovation, and facilitate the sharing of best practice.
• Support the Apprenticeship Director to ensure that teams are consistently high performing through effective use of the College's performance management system, including conducting monthly 1-1 performance 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.
• Co-ordinate internal and external verification processes, liaising with awarding bodies, external verifiers and the College's exams team.
• Support the Apprenticeship Quality Practioner 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 sytems 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 the work-based tutors to contribute.
• 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 & peer observations, are carried out to meet College quality priorities.
• Ensure the co-ordination of all End point assessments (EPA) for apprenticeships are timely.
• Work with marketing and other partners to raise the profile of the provision and subsequent growth.
• Support in 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) are provided timely for the Apprenticeship Operational Group meeting.
• To 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.

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• L3 Qualification in a related Apprenticeship area

Desirable Criteria

• Degree and/or relevant professional qualification
• Strong IT skills
• L4 Internal Quality Assurance

How Identified: Application

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Recent experience 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 of using data bases that assist in the managing and monitoring of apprenticeship delivery
• Working with Apprenticeship and curriculum teams
• Exceptional interpersonal skills
• Ability to multi-task to ensure deadlines are met, with the ability to work under pressure

Desirable Criteria

• Management experience including responsibility for quality, staff and Apprenticeship delivery

How Identified: Application/Interview

Specialist Knowledge

Essential criteria:

• Knowledge of funding rules within Apprenticeships
• Good understanding of End Point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs)

How Identified: Application/Interview

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

How Identified: Application/Interview

IT Skills

• Advanced user of Microsoft applications

How Identified: Application/Interview

We are a Further Education College and University Centre offering a range of full and part time courses employing over 600 staff on our campuses in Rochdale and Middleton situated to the north-east of Manchester. Both campuses have ample free parking and subsidised restaurants.

We offer staff a range of benefits including free gym membership at our Middleton Sports Arena and generous holiday entitlement.

We are committed to being a great place to work and have membership status of the Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter. We are a Living Wage employer and an accredited Disability Confident Employer. Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion statement is designed to ensure that unfair discrimination does not take place in any part of our recruitment process.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and colleagues and we expect all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. The college complies with Safer Recruitment guidance in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education and all successful applicants are required to undertake a DBS check and other pre-recruitment checks in line with our Safer Recruitment policy. It is an offence to apply for a regulated role at the College if you are barred from working with children (or vulnerable adults if in a role where this applies).

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and exemption orders 1975, 2013 and

STAFF BENEFITS

Working at Hopwood Hall College comes with a wide range of benefits including generous holiday and sick pay entitlements.

Other benefits include:

• Career average pension scheme
• Free gym membership at our Middleton Campus Sports Arena
• Purchase loans for computers and bikes
• Staff discount at the College's Riverside Salon, Sports Arena and Holiday Clubs
• On-site nursery (Rochdale Campus)
• Credit union for savings, low cost loans and life assurance
• Free on-site parking
• On-site Dog Kennels (spaces not guaranteed)
• An electric and hybrid car salary sacrifice scheme (with charging points on site)
• A cycle to work scheme
• Discounted public transport tickets
• Generous holiday entitlement (Teaching staff: 53 days, Business Support staff: 28 days plus bank holidays
• Christmas/New Year closure and the opportunity to buy additional holidays)
• Subsidised bistro and refectory