Senior Quality Officer - Skills and Education - London (Travel nationally)

Get Set for Impact That Matters. At Get Set UK, we ignite opportunity, build resilience, and nurture success – for individuals, businesses, and communities. Through high-quality employability, education, and skills programmes, we support people to move forward with confidence and purpose. We’re now looking for a Senior Quality Officer to join our Education & Training team – a quality-driven professional who will champion excellence, lead continuous improvement, and help us achieve and sustain Ofsted ‘Good’ and beyond.

This is your opportunity to shape quality strategy, influence delivery at a senior level, and ensure our skills provision truly changes lives.

Your Impact

As Senior Quality Officer, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our Adult Skills Fund (ASF), Skills Bootcamps, and wider skills provision consistently meet – and exceed – internal, contractual, and regulatory expectations. You will lead on quality assurance frameworks, inspections, audits, and improvement planning, using insight, data, and collaboration to strengthen teaching, learning, assessment, and learner outcomes across the business. Your leadership will directly support learners to succeed, staff to thrive, and communities to benefit from high-quality education and skills delivery.

Your Role

• Developing, implementing, and monitoring Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) across ASF, Bootcamps, Apprenticeship-related provision, and other skills programmes
• Leading Self-Assessment Reports (SARs) and position statements for adult provision
• Managing IQA and EQA processes, ensuring awarding body compliance
• Acting as centre coordinator for awarding organisations
• Leading preparation for and participation in external audits and inspections, including Ofsted, ESFA, GLA, and DfE
• Monitoring and improving the quality of teaching, learning, and assessment, including observations and feedback
• Supporting and challenging subcontractors through quality monitoring and performance review
• Using data to identify gaps, trends, and opportunities for improvement
• Supporting curriculum development to ensure alignment with local, regional, and national skills priorities
• Ensuring compliance with ESFA funding rules, awarding body requirements, and safeguarding standards
• Supporting staff development through coaching, feedback, and performance management
• Driving digital solutions to improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact
• Monitoring and improving Information, Advice & Guidance (IAG) standards across provision

Who we seek

• Minimum Level 3 qualification
• Teaching qualification (or equivalent experience)
• Assessing and IQA qualifications
• DET / Level 5 EAT or equivalent experience
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in the skills sector
• At least 3 years’ experience leading quality methodologies and improvements

Desirable:

• Direct experience supporting or leading Ofsted inspections
• Experience managing high-performing quality or delivery teams

You Share Our Values

• Be Ambitious - You’re determined, forward-thinking and always seeking improvement
• Be Inspiring - You support others to take ownership and raise standards
• Be Proud - You celebrate high-quality work and positive outcomes
• Be Considerate - You collaborate inclusively with colleagues, partners and stakeholders
• Own It - You take accountability, lead with integrity, and follow through on what matters

Why Join Get Set UK?

Because you’ll be part of a mission-driven organisation that invests in your growth and celebrates your impact. You’ll get:

• Wellbeing support including GP, counselling and Headspace
• Discounts, pension and salary sacrifice options
• Enhanced benefits with service
• A culture built on ambition, pride, ownership and support
• Real opportunities for progression

We are also a proud Disability Confident Employer. Adjustments are available at every stage.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re ready to use your quality leadership to make a meaningful difference – for learners, staff, and communities – we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and join a team where Every Word Matters, Every Action Counts, and Every Person Matters.

This organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners/clients and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful appointment to this role will require satisfactory completion of recruitment checks.