Apprenticeship Skills Coach – Business, Law and Social Sciences Birmingham City University Birmingham £34,226 – £37,203 a year – Full-time

Grade: S01

Full time, Permanent.

Birmingham City University is a large and diverse place to study right in the heart of the city and we currently have an exciting opportunity for an Apprenticeship Skills Coach (Business, Law and Social Sciences) within the Directorate of Student and Academic Services (SAAS).

The Directorate of Student and Academic Services (SAAS) leads on the development and provision of outstanding student facing services. The Directorate is responsible for ensuring that students have an excellent experience and provides services across the student and academic lifecycle from enrolment to graduation, covering everything from wellbeing services to ensuring new courses are set up correctly. The Directorate is at the centre of a transformation programme as we seek to make services which underpin our student experience more efficient and effective.

The postholder will work with the Business, Law and Social Sciences team to lead on facilitating reviews between apprentices and employers, liaising with relevant academic staff. Engagement with employers and their apprentices is foremost to ensuring BCU’s existing and future apprenticeship programmes provide an excellent learning experience, meeting employers and apprentice expectations, in line with the governance requirements for apprenticeship provision.

You will work collaboratively with both academic staff and apprenticeship account managers to ensure systems and process are adhered to and that both quality and compliance is maintained to the highest standard in line with service level agreements. You will organise visits with external clients, apprentices, and internal staff to ensure the implementation of quality reviews and assessment of evidence for audit. The postholder will need to engage actively on working with employers to support learners who have disclosed a need for additional support.

You will have relevant work experience along with management or supervisory experience / leading staff teams. You will have knowledge and experience of apprenticeship programmes and associated funding quality and compliance processes and systems, and a working knowledge of current and emerging apprenticeship standards, End Point Assessment and the Apprenticeship Levy. You will need a satisfactory DBS disclosure at Enhanced level.

Job Description

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio