End Point Assessment Manager

King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Imperial Workforce

Location: Remote / National

Salary: Up to £54,000 plus £5k car allowance

Hours: Monday to Friday (Office hours)

Type: Permanent

Imperial Professionals are currently recruiting exclusively for a national Training Provider who are looking to appoint an End Point Assessment Manager

Duties:

• To manage all End Point Assessment (EPA) activity across Apprenticeships / NCC
• Take ownership of all associated EPA activities
• Ensure the delivery of a robust and compliant set of EPA processes from registration to results
• Identify suitable EPAOs, support any procurement and contracting activity and agree the operating model and SLAs.
• Build and maintain relationships with a variety of End Point Assessment Organisations (EPAOs)
• Act as the key point of contact for all EPAOs
• Manage contracts with all EPAOs, including the agreement of SLAs
• Manage communications with NCC sites and operational teams in relation to assessment scheduling, outcomes and issuing of results
• Utilise all EPAO systems to provide key data and intelligence
• Monitor learner progress through gateway, EPA, and results
• Manage data on all systems and trackers to enable accurate and timely reporting and identify trends
• Maintain up to date process documentation
• Produce management information reports to ensure effective performance management of all EPA activity
• Work closely with curriculum and operational teams to ensure EPA best practice is implemented into delivery
• Work closely with operational teams to support the effective completion of gateway documentation, including resolving any queries in a timely manner
• Work with EPAOs (and IfATE) to resolve EPA issues
• Provide hands on support to improve processes and documentation
• Make recommendations for future process improvements

Requirements:

Essential

• Up-to-date understanding of apprenticeship programmes and the apprenticeship learning journey
• Knowledge of the work-based learning / apprenticeship environment
• Detailed understanding of End Point Assessment processes
• Knowledge of apprenticeship and EPA systems e.g., Maytas, ACE 360 etc
• Able to identify operational risks
• Experience of managing relationships, both external and internal
• Excellent IT skills
• Proven track record of consistently achieving performance targets
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desirable

• Knowledge of construction related End Point Assessments
• Educated to degree level or equivalent