Salary: Dependant on experience: £25,476 to £30,236.01
37 Hours per week / 52 Weeks per year
Join Our Team: Apprenticeship Data Lead
Are you ready to embark on an exciting journey as an Apprenticeship Data Lead? We’re seeking a passionate individual who thrives on data, compliance, and making a difference. Here’s your chance to shape the future of apprenticeships and contribute to our mission of creating opportunities to transform lives!
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated individual to manage our apprentice data and systems, ensuring compliance with the ESFA’s Apprenticeships Funding Rules. The candidate will play a key role in the delivery of apprenticeships at the College, working as part of the apprenticeships team.
The post holder will undertake and coordinate regular audits of apprentice records to identify and resolve compliance risks. To be effective in the role, you will need a high level of specialised and technical knowledge related to apprenticeships, in particular the ESFA funding rules and the ILR.
The candidate will manage apprentice data to ensure accurate ILR submissions, preparing regular reports for senior managers and to support Ofsted inspection. The candidate will be the lead user for all apprenticeships systems and provide advice and operational guidance to colleagues to ensure best use of the systems and compliance with funding requirements.
To be effective in this role, you will need to have significant experience of working in an MIS/data role; confidence in preparing reports and analysing data, and the ability to share your knowledge and expertise with others by delivering training related to apprenticeships data or preparing guidance documents.
Within this role, you will begin working to develop and promote strong cross-functional teamwork and partnerships with the College MIS team. You will develop your strong comprehensive knowledge of government contractual obligations and funding rules in relation to funded training, for Apprenticeships.
You will need:
Significant experience in MIS/data roles.
Understanding of Apprenticeship Funding
Confidence in writing reports and analysing data.
Ability to collaborate with college teams and employers
We are proud to be the first-choice vocational education provider for West Berkshire and an exceptional place to work. We take pride in our commitment to our employees, and we are seeking passionate, talented teaching and non-teaching staff to join our thriving team.
Everything we do is about "creating opportunities to transform lives", from the exceptional support we provide to our students to the professional development available to our staff. By offering flexible, part-time, and full-time roles, a range of enticing benefits, and a supportive working environment, we aim to make Newbury College and University Centre Newbury the ideal place to build your career.
Staff Benefits
• Free onsite parking
• 25 days holiday
• Local Government Pension Scheme (currently 5.8% employee contribution, 26.9% employer contribution)
• Occupational Sick Pay Scheme
• Occupational Maternity Pay Scheme
• Access to Westfield Health wellbeing resources
• Access to Employee Assistance Scheme
• On-site gym membership (annual fee of £20)
• Discounted Community Learning courses
• Access to discounted hair & beauty treatments at the Newbury College salon on campus
• Access to a range of good value food and drink at The Street café
• Friendly and flexible working environment
• Development Opportunities
• Discounted childcare at on site nursery for Newbury College staff (operated by a third party provider)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the set closing date if we receive a good level of applicants. To avoid disappointment, we would advise that you complete your application in full, rather than saving and returning to complete at a later date.
Safer Recruitment
At Newbury College we are committed to following Safer Recruitment Guidelines
• Pre – Recruitment Process: Candidates will be subject to an online search and any convictions must be declared on the application form. Applications must be completed in full with a complete employment history (With any gaps explained) and qualifications listed. Incomplete applications will not be submitted for shortlisting.
• Interview Stage: Candidates will be required to provide Right to Work documentation and an overseas check/Code of conduct certificate (if applicable).
• Successful Candidates: A share code will be required for Non-British citizens and further documents may be needed. A barred list check will be carried out alongside an Enhanced DBS check. We also require a minimum of 2 references, 1 must be from your most recent employer.
Our college is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
All successful candidates will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks along with other relevant employment checks.