Head of Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications

The College is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.

We are looking for a motivated individual to lead the Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications Department, ensuring alignment with the College business plan.

You will need significant experience of managing and delivering apprenticeship provision together with expanding the customer portfolio and strengthening existing relationships. You must also have operational management experience including the control of sizable resources and budgets.

Experience in working at a strategic level, working with high value partnerships and networks and the ability to assimilate and analyse information quickly in order to debate complex issues are essential requirements of the post.

You must be persuasive, personable communicator both with customers and colleagues. We are looking for a strategic thinker who is energetic, determined and positive.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

• A competitive pension scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• On-site parking
• One campus facility
• Access to healthcare scheme
• Subsided nursery fees
• Up to 35 days annual leave per year
• Additional annual leave available
• Generous Maternity/Paternity pay
• Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
• Well-being hours
• Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, agile working, staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

Overseas candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing their circumstances against criteria specified on the Gov website. Please note right to work checks will be completed when the job is offered.