Apprenticeship Contract Manager

Job Title: Apprenticeship Contract Manager
Location: Lyneham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: £53,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52963

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Apprenticeship Contract Manager.

The role
As an Apprenticeship Contract Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will manage, develop and deliver the contract Apprenticeship programme to ensure learning outcomes are aligned to strategic, operational, commercial and contractual requirements.

Day to day, you will manage two teams of assessors through three team leaders however; the role will be hands on meaning contact with the assessors will also be needed.

• Manage a team of team Leaders, Assessors and other to deliver the contractual requirements of the contract profitability line with MoD and ESFA policy and guidance
• Help develop and support the REME Apprenticeships Quality Improvement Plan
• Support Team Leaders in the design, development and delivery of CPD and other training events
• Liase and support all awarding bodies within REME Apprenticeships
• Report on learner satisfaction feedback to the customer

Essential experience of the Apprenticeship Contract Manager:

• Excellent knowledge of Apprenticeships, work based learning, ESFA regulations and a comprehensive knowledge of internal & external assurance activities
• Excellent knowledge of the Common Inspection Framework and experience of meeting/delivering against Ofsted requirements
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills along with excellent customer facing skills

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week, with a hybrid working arrangement; MOD Lyneham being the main working location, with visits to other UK contract sites require around once per month (UK wide travel will be required and possible overnight stays, when visiting other siteas0

Qualifications for the Apprenticeship Contract Manager:

• Level 3 Assessor Award
• Leadership & Management qualification or relevant experience

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock International
For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 29/08/2023

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