Apprenticeship Manager

Salary: £26,000 – £39,144 per year

Apprenticeship Manager

Doncaster

Salary – £26,000 – £39,144(Depending on Experience)

at 12 noon.

Start date: ASAP

About the role

Active Fusion are a leading educational charity based in Doncaster who is looking to appoint a passionate and motivated Apprenticeship Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join a charity

that makes huge and positive impacts to children’s lives. If you have experience of working with schools and local communities, by helping people gain the skills, knowledge and confidence to reach their full potential; and would like to work as part of an ambitious, energetic, and dedicated team who thrive on improving mental health, physical wellbeing and aspirations of young people this role could be for you. As well as delivering in schools and community settings we will also invest in your professional development ensuring you can be the best version of yourself.

The position will contribute to our 5 strategic goals;

* Improving physical health and wellbeing in children and young people.

* Raising aspirations of children and young people to lead pathways into employment.

* Advocating for the power of physical education in young lives.

* Increasing investment in the active lives of children and young people.

* Active Fusion is the best place to work for and with.

Active Fusion is an award-winning charity whose mission is to help every child develop a love for being active by unlocking potential and creating positive habits for life. We are a close team who are passionate, dedicated, and motivated; our positive culture is the foundation to our success.

Core values

Joyful – We feel inner personal satisfaction

Passionate – We care about you

Nurturing – We help others grow

Job Description & Specification

Responsibilities

Management, co-ordination and delivery of Level 2 Community Activator Coach and Level 3 Community Sport & Health Officer apprenticeships, including the recruitment of new employers and learners each year to grow the programme.

Develop high quality resources, training and accurately track and report all progress with apprentices against their individual learning plan and in preparation for end point assessment.

Developing working relationships with our employers in the Education, sport and physical activity Sectors.

Responsible for managing a growing cohort of learners who you will support from initialassessments to ascertain their starting point on the course to end-point-assessment offering high quality guidance and support against the apprenticeship standards.

Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion, British Values, Safeguarding and Prevent through the programmes.

Operate in line with all of Active Fusions policies and procedures as well as Education and Skills Funding Agency, Ofsted, End Point Assessment Organisations and Awarding Bodies.

Ability to use online classrooms, e-portfolio’s and learning systems as well as creating engaging face to face learning environments.

To effectively quality assure, measure and evaluate progress to continually improve provision.

Build relationships with young people and understanding their needs, with the ability to inspire them to thrive and succeed.

Establishing effective partnerships to create employability opportunities through PE, sport and physical activity.

Establish rapport and respectful, trusting relationships with all learners, acting as a role model and setting high expectations to promote the general progress and wellbeing of individual learners.

Drive the development of appropriate syllabuses, resources and schemes of work.

in collaboration with the education and business community to develop exit routes into further training, education, work experience and employment.

Key Skills & Qualities

A passion for sport/physical activity and the impact of this on health, wellbeing and the aspirations of children and young people.

A positive role model to others and demonstrate the Active Fusion values.

Demonstrates a growth mindset, thrives on taking on new challenges and inspires those around you.

Flexible, collaborative, and work very well as part of a committed team.

Confident and outgoing personality with the ability to motivate and inspire others.

Teaching/tutoring and mentoring skills.

A strong communicator, motivator and relationship builder.

Excellent written, digital and oral presentation skills.

Innovative driving forwards strong ideas which make a lasting change

Committed to equality, diversity our charitable values and mission.

Ability to use Office 365 to monitor and evaluate programmes to measure impact and capture outcomes.

A thirst for continual learning and personal development.

Relevant Experience & Qualifications

Essential

* Min of 2 years’ experience in teaching or tutoring.

* Experience of developing partnerships between Education, Careers and/or Enterprise.

* Knowledge of funding streams and funding requirements for the delivery of Apprenticeships, Traineeships and other skills programmes.

* Proven experience of successfully managing the full learner journey; initial assessment, IAG, diagnostic, teaching-learning-assessment, including classroom and 1:1 delivery.

* Experience of using e-portfolio systems e.g. SMART Assessor or One file.

* Experience of managing staff and budgets.

* Experience of writing and successfully delivering against strategic plans.

* Understand the fundamental principles of safeguarding, child protection and working with vulnerable young people.

Desirable

* Teaching Qualification at Level 3/5 or similar and Qualified Teacher Status.

* Hold a TAQA Assessors qualification or equivalent.

* Hold a IQA qualification or equivalent.

* A strong understanding of functional skills, specifically legacy English, and Maths.

* Level 3 safeguarding trained.

***This role requires you to fill out an application form, this will be sent to you after you ahve applied and needs to be submitted by 12 noon on the 17 September 2021.***