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United Kingdom

Providing strategic leadership of higher and degree apprenticeship provision, via a brilliant team who help widen participation and increase access to higher education.

Leveraging client relationships, sector understanding and professional body engagement to develop new market and product opportunities. Delivering strategic and commercial targets via programme enhancements to meet evolving needs of a range of clients. Leading on design, validation and cyclical review of the corporate programme portfolio, ensuring currency, relevance and compliance. Embedding quality processes to enhance the student journey over a range of corporate programmes. Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to build programme understanding and influence cross programme developments. Leadership of remote teams, through coaching and mentoring to underpin achievement of shared objectives and ensure a great education experience.

Working with various awarding bodies to conduct Apprenticeship End Point Assessment activity across Levels 3 - 7. Undertaking internal assurance activity to maintain compliance and quality standards. Undertaking peer review of independent apprenticeship assessors. Reporting on results of assessment in line with internal quality assurance processes. Writing of assessments, marks schemes and assessment guidance for professional qualifications, Levels 3 - 7

Accountability for ensuring an excellent apprenticeship experience over the range of degree apprenticeships which BPP School of Business and Technology offer. Leading on the design and delivery of the degree apprenticeship programme range ensuring currency, relevance, compliance and that customer satisfaction from both apprentices and corporate clients is high. Driving continuous improvement and innovation across programmes, working collaboratively with discipline specialists to ensure a great education experience across all programmes. Monitoring apprentice progression and managing key metrics to ensure the successful completions. Driving operational efficiency, ensuring scalability of offering.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Managing the overall consistency and quality across the portfolio of business and digital programmes, including Management and Leadership, HR and Digital Technology Solutions. Taking a commercial lead on client conversations relating to those programmes. Driving the Apprenticeships agenda, using market and industry insight to widen participation and enable strategic planning of portfolio development. Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to build programme understanding and influence cross programme developments. Establishing and maintaining excellent relationships with key clients and leveraging synergies with other schools and departments within BPP to promote apprenticeships. Contributing to and managing revenue, resource budgets and forecasts. Ensuring programmes meet academic and regulatory standards and driving continuous improvement and consistency across programmes. Leadership of national faculty within corporate division of the university. Driving continuous improvement across programmes Enhancing processes to provide academic leadership maintaining the highest possible standards in learning, teaching and assessment.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Developing, delivering and quality assuring professional, apprenticeship and academic qualifications for a wide range of students and clients, my role includes innovative programme design, ensuring a successful learning experience, meeting the needs of a varying student profile. A key part of my role is cultivating relationship with key stakeholders, including students, employers, colleagues, professional bodies and associates, facilitating collaborative development of programme requirements, maintenance of quality standards and the identification of areas for further development. Key achievements include increasing student numbers by 250% in under 12 months, maintaining student success rates at above the national average and being one of only 16 colleagues selected for the annual Talent Development Programme, 2016.

Bollington, United Kingdom

Being promoted from part time casual worker to Centre Manager, gave me a great opportunity to understand the business and industry from all angles. My key ongoing responsibilities included designing, implementing and reviewing the ongoing business, marketing and maintenance plan for the centre, reflecting multiple income streams, development opportunities and membership sales targets. Control of finances, overseeing a turnover of over £1 million and implementing structured, initial and ongoing training for over seventy staff.Previous key achievements include driving the change to an incorporated, charitable company, including rebranding and renaming to reflect changing market trends, allowing re-positioning in the marketplace and a growth in income; restructuring membership packages leading to a membership growth of 40% over two years, with an average 10% year on year growth thereafter; delivering an ongoing annual membership marketing & retention strategy including physical and online activity; cultivating relationships with a large network of key partners allowing the widening of target markets and upholding industry knowledge of health & safety issues and best practice compliance through continual training and development

Manchester, United Kingdom

Moving from student to lecturer facilitated an understanding of the pressures faced when studying and has lead to successful planning and delivery of lectures to undergraduate students reading a marketing degree and to professional students leading towards Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications. This includes marking and and grading or assignments and exams against clearly defined guidelines. Further responsibilities include designing resources for and managing online cohorts of learners leading to professional Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications

Key ongoing responsibilities include the organisation and delivery of annual training courses with a 97% pass rate, the delivery of continual, professional development to staff from learn to swim programmes throughout the country, delivery of training to the national, licensed, tutor workforce and the internal and external verification of courses, ensuring standards are met and upheld.Previous key achievements include the training of approximately sixty swimming teachers each year, through progressive levels and qualifications, becoming one of only fifty assessors to form the Swim21 panel and assess learn to swim programmes throughout the country, against quality benchmark standards and becoming one of only ten professionals to sit on the current qualification review panel, ensuring qualifications are fit for purpose through comparability analysis.

Facilitated learning and development of students to ensure success in academic work through the planning and delivery of lectures to undergraduate students reading a leisure management degree, including the marking and grading of assignments against clearly defined guidelines.

Post Graduate Certificate In Learning And Teaching, Education

Post Graduate Diploma, Marketing

Ma, Strategic Sports Management

Ba(Hons) Leisure Management, Management