Department: Funding & Compliance

Location: Home based, UK

Reports to:

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: £28,000

Role Overview

The Funding & Compliance Coordinator role is responsible for ensuring that all publicly funded learners, primarily Apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps, at Cambridge Spark meet the requirements set out by funding bodies, awarding bodies and End Point Assessment Organisations. Additionally, they are responsible for ensuring that company processes are adhered to and identifying potential risks to our ongoing compliance. The role will involve the use of relevant systems such as Aptem, DAS, HubSpot and ILR submissions and reporting.

This role will be required to work with stakeholders internally and externally at varying levels of seniority as well as delivering timely and accurate updates to our data, supporting the development and completion of reporting and ensuring that clients and learners are supported where necessary.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting with the preparation of the monthly ESFA submissions including completion of ILR updates for Apprenticeship & Skills Bootcamps
• Processing of Withdrawals, Breaks in Learning, Returners and Completions of both Apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps covering funding rules and compliance on a weekly basis
• Providing reports to Senior Leadership/Management Team of Completions, Withdrawals and Breaks in Learning
• Administration of DAS account ensuring all learners are added to DAS
• Managing and responding to tickets raised through HubSpot
• Supporting employers with the DAS account set up process and queries
• Support with key compliance checks for both Apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps covering onboarding, on programme and completion
• Tracking learner attendance and resolving any discrepancies until all attendance is tracked automatically
• Support Operations Coordinators with compliance related issues/queries
• Support Funding and Compliance Lead with regular sampling of evidence packs against compliance requirements and data for compliance, quality and accuracy
• Share reporting with team management on identified trends and recommended actions
• Collation of evidence to support Skills Bootcamp submissions to external partners and funding bodies
• Develop enhanced knowledge of Apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps compliance requirements through attendance at sector events/training
• Support with preparation for ESFA audit, or any other external inspection (Ofsted, EQA, Matrix)
• Support with training and up-skilling across the wider teams
• Support the wider Governance and Operations team with any administrative duties during peak periods
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with internal stakeholders
• Attend and complete any mandated training or meetings to ensure continuous professional development
• To support with any ad-hoc duties or requests that may be reasonably required to successfully carry out this role or to support the business‘ needs

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• Significant experience working across Apprenticeship and/or Skills Bootcamps provision within a funding and compliance role
• MI Systems experience such as: Maytas, PICS, Aptem or Bud
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills - written and spoken
• Excellent customer service skills
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team
• Effective at planning/managing own time and great problem solving skills

Desirable

• Advanced excel or google sheets experience
• Experience of ESFA audit

Company Benefits:

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• Pre-tax gym allowance of £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• Contribution towards books and training courses that help you learn and grow in your role with us
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line

Background to the Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.

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Cambridge Spark is an Equal Opportunities Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Cambridge Spark is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunities for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Cambridge Spark are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour or ethnicity, ability or disability, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Cambridge Spark will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Cambridge Spark encourages applicants of all ages.

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