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Job description
Vacancy Type/Job category
Academic
Department
WMG
Salary
£33,348 - £43,155 per annum
Location
University of Warwick, Coventry
Vacancy Overview
1x FTC 12 months, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
1x FTC up to 12 months, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
WMG is a vibrant, cutting-edge research institution at the University of Warwick, providing research, education and knowledge transfer in engineering, manufacturing and technology.
Our education team offer a diverse range of degree apprenticeship programmes to employer partners. We are seeking to appoint motivated and confident Apprentice Support tutors to work with our growing Apprenticeship team, who can provide the highest quality of support to apprentices and make a positive impact to their learning. Apprentice Support tutors are responsible for providing pastoral, academic and work-related support to apprentices throughout their studies, helping them to demonstrate how their learning meets the knowledge, skills and behaviours required by the relevant apprenticeship standards.
To be successful in this role, you will need to be a good communicator, well organised, able to keep accurate records and work to tight deadlines. You will need to collaborate effectively, influence a range of stakeholders and build and sustain relationships, sometimes at a distance, across organisations. An understanding of apprenticeship compliance requirements is also essential.
You will need to be prepared to travel to companies (if appropriate) to undertake reviews with apprentices and their line managers/mentors. Knowledge within the specific technical areas of engineering or digital technology would be an advantage.
You will have a degree, and a qualification or experience in teaching, learning development, coaching or mentoring, together with a positive outlook on this approach to learning. In return, we will provide a great range of benefits which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities.
At WMG we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. We have recently gained the Athena SWAN Silver Award and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative that recognizes the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities including a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities. We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Job Description
To be a part of the Work-based education team, you will work with Apprenticeship tutors, course teams and the compliance lead to support apprentices throughout their apprenticeship.
To work with those companies enrolling participants on Degree Apprenticeships to ensure that apprentices are able to fulfil the vocational elements of the apprenticeship. To work with the organisations on the development of individual training plans for the apprentices, to monitor the development of the apprentices against these plans with the workplace mentors and academic teams. To ensure that apprentices maintain appropriate evidence and that both informal and contractual ongoing reporting is completed. Apprentice support tutors will work with a number of apprentices on one or more programmes and develop strong supportive relationships with them and their line managers / workplace mentors and, where appropriate, with the company apprenticeship team.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To be academic owners for the delivery of work-based learning modules as required.
- To support discussions with organisations on intended cohorts and the organisation’s plans for the vocational, skills and behaviour elements of the programme, and to support in completing the appropriate paperwork before course start.
- To work with the admissions team and compliance lead to ensure that all eligibility checks are made and processed in a timely way.
- To assist during the apprentice programme induction process and to provide guidance to workplace mentors.
- To work with apprentices, and where appropriate their workplace mentors or line managers, to ensure that Individual Training Plans (ITPs) are developed.
- To review progress against TLPs, provide appropriate coaching support for apprentices where required and work with academic teams to ensure that individual or cohort issues are identified in a timely way; individual apprentice progress is noted and apprentices at risk are identified and mitigations devised and agreed.
- To support apprenticeship progress throughout the programme including the ongoing assessment and feedback of an apprentice’s portfolio, and lead and maintain accurate records of tripartite reviews using an ePortfolio system.
- To act as an apprentice’s personal tutor.
- To assist, when required, with identification of suitable work-based projects and support apprentices in their project work.
- To work with the designated End point assessment organisation (where required) and prepare Apprentices for EPA.
- To contribute to module and annual reviews with course teams.
Research and Scholarship
- Reflect on practice and the development of own learning skills.
Administration and Other Activities
- To provide reports and updates to WMG leadership as required and regular and ad hoc information to clients where agreed and appropriate.
- To ensure that apprentice learner evidence is maintained and submitted as required to allow levy funding to be drawn down, working closely with compliance lead.
- To maintain strong client relationships and act as a point of contact for the apprenticeship manager (or similarly designated role) within the organisation and provide agreed and appropriate feedback to client working with the appropriate client relationship manager.
- To keep up to date with the legal and administrative requirements concerning Apprenticeships and the Apprenticeship levy; OFSTED requirements and with regional and national skills agendas.
- To undertake specific departmental roles as may be required.
- To engage and attend departmental meetings and to participate, as appropriate, in other committees and working groups within the department, the faculty and the University.
- To participate in relevant professional activities, for example non-teaching CPD.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety in all aspects of work and, where appropriate, undertake risk assessments.
Person Specification
The Person Specification focuses on the knowledge, skills, experience and qualifications required to undertake the role effectively. This is measured by (a) Application Form, (b) Test/Exercise, (c) Interview, (d) Presentation.
Essential Criteria 1
Honours degree, or professional equivalent, in a relevant area (a, c)
Essential Criteria 2
Possession of a teaching qualification or HEA accreditation, or willingness to complete Warwick APPTE or seek HEA accreditation when in post (a, c)
Essential Criteria 3
Experience of working in FE or HE and with employers, preferably from a number of different sectors (a, c)
Essential Criteria 4
Demonstrable experience of the Apprenticeship landscape and needs of work based learners (a, c, d)
Essential Criteria 5
Well organised with an ability to manage multiple projects in a deadline intensive environment, with good attention to detail and accuracy of data (a, c)
Essential Criteria 6
Good interpersonal skills and the ability to achieve buy-in across a spectrum of stakeholders (a, c)
Essential Criteria 7
Credibility with apprentices, internal and external teams (a, c)
Essential Criteria 8
Concern for maintenance of standards and quality in work based learning (a, c)
Essential Criteria 9
Ability to work as a part of a team (a, c)
Essential Criteria 10
High level of self-motivation with ability to plan and deliver goals to deadlines under pressure (a, c)
Essential Criteria 11
Ability to use a range of techniques to adapt to the needs of the learners and familiarity with strategies to promote learning (a, c, d)
Essential Criteria 12
Able to present progress reports as required (a, c)
Essential Criteria 13
Experience with Microsoft Office – Word, Excel and complex databases (a)
Desirable Criteria 1
Experience of using an apprenticeship ePortfolio system (a)
Desirable Criteria 2
Some knowledge within the specific technical areas of the apprenticeships in WMG – engineering or digital technology would be desirable (a, c)
Further Particulars
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the departmental website.
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk)
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
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As an organisation using the (DBS) Disclosure and Barring Service to assess applicants’ suitability for positions of trust, the University of Warwick complies with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of a conviction or other information revealed. More information is available on the University’s Vacancy pages and applicants may request a copy of the DBS Code of Practice.
Closing Date
30 Jul 2023
