EQA Manager

Work setting: Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Salary: between £33,075 and £41,895 per annum

Hours: Full-time (36.5 hours per week)

Contract: 12-month FTC

Location: Midlands

Are you passionate about ensuring the integrity and compliance of External Quality Assurance processes within the education sector? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can lead, support, and implement strategies for continuous improvement?

TPP are recruiting an EQA Manager on behalf of our client, a highly respected awarding organisation dedicated to ensuring the safe and fair awarding of qualifications.

The Role:

As the EQA Manager, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing external quality assurance processes and procedures, maintaining high standards and compliance with regulatory and awarding organisation requirements.

Main responsibilities:

• Manage all EQAs, including performance management processes.
• Lead recruitment efforts and ensuring appropriate training for EQAs.
• Ensure the smooth implementation of EQA processes and procedures to uphold regulatory compliance.
• Deliver annual budget reports to the Head of Access and Compliance, providing detailed forecasting and recommendations.
• Develop and execute annual training and development plans for centres, EQAs, and internal colleagues.
• Create centre-based training materials and handbooks.
• Supervise standardisation activities and materials for EQAs, both internally and externally.
• Offer recommendations to the Head of Access and Compliance regarding external quality assurance and ongoing improvement efforts.
• Assist the broader organisation in readiness for inspections, audits, and self-assessments.
• Coordinate and ensure EQAs allocation to carry out monitoring in line for CASS strategy.

Requirements:

• Project and line management experience.
• Knowledge of current education legislation.
• Knowledge of awarding body and regulatory structures.
• Experience in external quality assurance processes and report writing.
• Understanding of post-16 education and lifelong learning.
• Excellent organisational skills, diligence and integrity.
• Experience of networking with key stakeholders.

  Additional information:

• Travel will be required in this role between the group's offices and nationally.

If this sounds like the role for you, then we would love to hear back. We are reviewing CVs as and when we are receiving them so, if you are keen to apply, then please do so today!

TPP are always keen to speak with candidates looking to work in the sector so if this role isn't quite right for you, please do check out our website www.tpp.co.uk and pop your CV over to us!

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.