IQA

About the role

Our client is one of Wales’ leading training providers of skills and funded services, delivering Traineeships, Apprenticeships, Employability Skills and Jobs Growth Wales through their suite of funded programmes. Reporting to the Contract Manager, you will lead, motivate and develop a team of Assessors to drive performance and quality of delivery across all learning programmes in line with contract compliance, ensuring high quality teaching, learning and assessment for all learners. You will be responsible for ensuring the company’s Internal Quality Assurance and Performance Management processes are rigorous, leading to continuous improvement, improved learner satisfaction and success rates across the team.

Responsibilities

• Motivating and developing a team of Assessors to ensure learners have a positive learning experience and KPIs are achieved.
• Developing a team of Assessors to improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes.
• Managing sampling and verification activities to improve the progression and achievement of learners.
• Ensuring that all IQA activities continually meet the needs of learners, exceed the requirements of Awarding Organisations, Welsh Government, Estyn and the client.
• Managing an ongoing cycle of standardisation meetings for Assessors to ensure best practice is shared across all sectors.
• Managing delivery models and other resources to embed a consistent and standardised approach to delivery.
• Ensuring literacy and numeracy are embedded throughout the learning programme.
• Ensuring Assessors embed the cross‑cutting themes of Safeguarding/Prevent, ESDGC, Wales the Language and Culture, Equality & Diversity and Health & Safety/Well‑being.
• Completing regular sampling of Assessor activity to ensure consistency across the team.

Requirements

• Experience and a proven track record of leading a team of IQAs.
• Experience of coordinating EQA visits.
• Been actively involved in an Estyn inspection.
• Desirable to be Welsh speaking (not essential).