Degree Apprenticeship Workplace Reviewer: Built Environment

£32,260 to £36,251 per annum (for exceptional performers, there is scope for further progression up to £41,689 per annum)

Hybrid

This role will be based on site, primarily in the named location with the opportunity to work remotely available in line with our Adaptive Working Framework.

As an Apprenticeship Workplace Reviewer, you will work with the programme team to lead on facilitating reviews between apprentices, employers and liaising with relevant academic staff.

Your engagement with employers and their apprentices is foremost to ensuring our existing and future apprenticeship programmes provide an excellent learning experience, meeting employers and apprentice expectations, in line with the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (If ATE) and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) governance requirements for apprenticeship provision.

• Lead on liaising with apprentices, external clients and internal academic operations teams to ensure that communication between all parties is recorded in the review process, ensuring the process is managed and completed efficiently and effectively and in line with our service level agreements.
• Accountable for managing visits with employers to carry out health and safety checks, assessment of evidence, tripartite reviews.

Support the employers to actively participate in the review process offering mentoring support to young learners and small organisations, with a focus on young apprentices as well as those who have declared the need for additional support.

• Act as a personal professional academic tutor, supporting and mentoring students as appropriate.
• Provide pastoral care to students, referring when necessary to services that provide further support.
• Work with the Apprenticeships Hub and Heads of School to facilitate duties that support the achievement of outstanding communication to employers and the learner and client experience.
• Provide expert operational advice to Apprenticeship Hub Team to ensure duties that support the achievement of Funding Compliance, whilst enhancing the learner and client experience.
• Take a lead role to ensure that appropriate records of reviews are kept and stored securely in accordance with University and external bodies’ audit requirements.
• Work collaboratively with the apprenticeship hub team alongside academic staff to support learner engagement and update the employer either face to face or via our e-portfolio system.
• Lead responsibility to work with employers and external professional bodies to ensure that there is a process by which suitable evidence is available on the professional body’s career development portal to enable the student to progress and apply for the end point assessment.
• Take a lead on collating the Employer and Apprentice review comments to inform programme committees and the University continual monitoring process for quality enhancement.
• Lead on producing monthly reports to show compliance, retention and success against given targets.
• Ensure that the Intent, Implementation and Impact of the apprenticeship programme is explored in each review and that academic teams are aware of any concerns by the apprentice and/or employer.
• Ensure that the apprentice is building a complete portfolio of experience in order to attempt their End Point Assessment (EPA) with apprenticeship guidelines.
• Work with the academic team and End-Point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs) to ensure that the apprentice is prepared for their EPA within the apprenticeship guidelines.
• Build successful working relationships with key stakeholders across the University, relevant colleagues across the sector and external agencies to ensure expectations are effectively managed.
• Contribute to the work of the College team and Apprenticeship Hub team (where appropriate), taking on such duties and responsibilities as delegated by the line manager.

Experience

• Relevant work experience in the engineering sector related to the apprenticeship standards in the UK
• Demonstrable experience of working in the engineering sector to have obtained a broad skills base in areas such as transport engineering, structural engineering, site surveying, geomatics, project management, quantity surveying, and fluid engineering
• Previous management/supervisory experience/leading staff teams
• Knowledge and experience of the current degree and apprenticeship programmes above Level 4 and associated funding quality and compliance processes and systems
• Experience of working with employers in their workplace

Skills, knowledge and abilities

• A working knowledge of current and emerging apprenticeship standards, EPA and the Apprenticeship Levy
• Numerically and financially literate with a sharp eye for detail
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to equality and diversity
• Commitment to first class customer service and achieving high quality outputs and outcomes
• Advanced organisational ability, excellent planning and prioritising capabilities
• An achiever who owns their own part in the process of delivering a high-quality apprenticeship service by going the extra mile in their area of responsibility
• Highly self‑motivated with the confidence to work independently and willingness to take on new responsibilities
• Able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with people at all levels with the ability to gain the confidence, respect and co‑operation of senior figures both within the organisation and externally
• Able to motivate and mobilise individuals both academics and students
• Highly organised and efficient
• Business requirements
• Able to take a flexible approach to work
• Willingness and flexibility to travel and work between University and external sites in a cost effective and timely manner
• Some evening and occasional weekend working
• A commitment to own professional development

Qualifications

• An MSc or MEng in civil engineering or equivalent
• Professionally qualified to IEng or CEng with a suitable engineering professional institution.

The University of Derby is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, disability, trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief (or none), sex and sexual orientation.

We are Disability Confident Employers, demonstrating our commitment to disability inclusion, and invite applicants to highlight adjustments they may require to ensure equitable participation in our recruitment processes.

Further, we are committed to ensuring an environment which is trans and non‑binary‑inclusive for all our staff, students, partners, and visitors, and continuously review our policies, guidance and training.

When applying to join the University, you can choose your preferred title, including the gender‑neutral title ‘Mx’.

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This is voluntary but demonstrates our commitment to inclusivity for trans and non‑binary candidates.

Once employed, you can add pronouns and preferred names onto our system.

The University of Derby undertakes anonymised shortlisting during the staff recruitment process.

This means that, when shortlisting, panel members will not be able to see an applicant’s name and will see an applicant number instead.

This demonstrates the practical steps we are taking to remove barriers to recruitment by minimising the possible impact of our unconscious bias.

However you identify, we actively celebrate the knowledge, experience and talents each person brings.

Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds; therefore we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who will help our leaders and teams be more reflective of our student population.

At the University of Derby, we are passionate about embedding sustainability into everything that we do.

We aim to bring environmental sustainability into all aspects of the University, including teaching, research and operational activities.

In line with the University's strategic framework, we expect all our staff to embed sustainability into their working practices and support the University's objective to reach net zero carbon by 2050.

Seize the opportunity to shape the future, apply now.

For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Dr Simon Wood, Programme Leader for the Civil Engineering Apprenticeship via s. wood@derby. ac. uk

For enquiries regarding your application and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment team via recruitment@derby. ac. uk.

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers under the Skilled Worker route for this role; however, applications are welcome from candidates who are able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

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