Internal Quality Assurer

Role Purpose: The role of the IQA is to lead, monitor and develop quality practices in the business resulting in improve the quality of delivery across all learning programmes, ensuring high quality, teaching and assessment for all learners. Responsible for ensuring the company’s Internal Quality Assurance processes are rigorous and lead to continuous improvement, improve learner satisfaction and success rates across the team. Ensure documentation and records meet quality and regulatory requirements. Improvement of practices for the Trainers through quality initiatives. Relationships: Department Quality Reports into Delivery & Quality Manager Direct reports None – link into other departments for delivery and compliance activities. Duties and Responsibilities: * Responsible for managing sampling and verification activities to improve the progression and achievement of learners. * Responsible for ensuring all IQA activities continually meet the needs of the learners, exceed the requirements of Awarding organisation, governing bodies, key stakeholders and GEM. * Manage an ongoing cycle of standardisation meetings for Trainers to ensure best practice is shared across all sectors. * Bespoke client material and other resources to embed a consistent and standardised approach to delivery as needed * Supporting delivery manager in the development of Trainers to improve quality of delivery across all learning programmes,based on feedback from all quality activities. * Supporting delivery manager in coaching and developing Trainers ensuring they are outstanding in their delivery. * Complete regular sampling of Trainers activity to ensure consistency across the teamproviding feedback and areas for improvement * Ensure sampling is completed and turnaround within timescales set. * Understand the delivery profiles planned each month and prioritising plans to ensure IQA within the month is achieved. * Responsible for completing IQA reports, clearly, well written and with developmental feedback to support and improve performance. * Participate in EQA visits to ensure the visit schedule is adhered to, all portfolios requested are presented and meet the standards resulting in a positive visit and maintaining DCS status. * Responsible for working with compliance department to ensure timely notification of all qualifications to be claimed together with relevant documentation to prove authenticity of claims. * Follow agreed procedures when there are significant concerns about the quality of assessment. * Follow agreed procedures for the recording, storing and reporting and confidentiality of information. Continuing professional development: * Identify current performance requirements relevant to own practice. * Identify trends and developments relevant to own skills, knowledge and practice. * Identify and critically reflect on how own beliefs and attitudes influence own practice. * Seek feedback, collect information and continually reflect on own performance. * Assess the extent to which own practice is inclusive and promotes equality and diversity. * Prioritise areas for development and plan how learning and development will be achieved. * Access development needed to carry out own work more effectively and continually use a range of resources to keep own knowledge, skills and practice up to date. * Keep records of own actions, development plans and progress, and use them to support and inform ongoing reflective practice. * Apply new knowledge and skills to consolidate learning, improve own practice, and review the effectiveness of newly acquired knowledge and skills. * Share knowledge, skills and improvements to practice with colleagues where it is likely to be of benefit. * Maintain agreements about confidentiality. * Participate in the Staff Development and Training programme to meet personal, professional and Service development requirements. Qualifications and experience * Minimum of 3 years’ experience * Level 4 Certificate in Leading the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice / or equivalent Salary * Negotiable To stay safe in your job search we recommend that you visit JobsAware, a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organisation working to combat job scams. Visit the JobsAware website to get free, expert advice for a safer job search