Early Years IQA

Our client is looking for an Early Years IQA. Within your role you will carry out formative and summative internal quality assurance, providing developmental feedback to tutors on the quality of their assessment decision. You will work collaboratively across departments identifying delivery improvements and implementing quality strategies and training solutions. This is a hybrid role with 2 day a week travel around the Essex region.

Job Responsibilities

• To conduct quality assurance and improvement activities in line with the IQA Strategy and awarding body requirements throughout the learner journey, from on-boarding activities to Gateway
• Produce sampling plans based on risk and in line with the IQA strategy
• Conduct observations of coaching, teaching, learning and assessment (in the workplace and remotely) providing clear, constructive, supportive, and timely feedback to tutors and performance managers
• Monitor assessment to ensure learners’ progress timely through their programme providing clear, constructive, supportive, and timely feedback to Apprenticeship Tutors
• Support Apprenticeship Tutors to create and implement action plans to ensure learners are actively engaged and enable learner progression
• Monitor compliance against ESFA funding rules and standards to drive continuous improvement across parts of the learning journey.
• Work in collaboration to undertake EQA visits under the direction of Quality, Compliance and Impact Manager to ensure Awarding Organisation compliance.
• Share best practice, lead participation in standardisation activities to enhance and develop the programme and ensure consistency of assessment decisions
• Monitor candidate progress and provide Apprenticeship Tutors support to ensure completion of Functional Skills exams, portfolios, gateway agreements, end point assessments and other targets to ensure timely completion
• Conduct sample marking of assessments to ensure consistent outcomes for learners and provide feedback/reports to Quality, Compliance and Impact Manager
• Ensure checks on pen portraits are completed by Apprenticeship Tutors for all apprentices
• Monitoring the recording and reporting of ALS. Supporting Apprenticeship Tutors on ALS delivery and recording
• Obtain, collate, and act upon feedback from apprentices and their employers

Training

• Deliver training, mentoring and support to Apprenticeship Tutors to ensure compliance with the teaching and assessment standards including English and maths
• Deliver induction training to new Apprenticeship tutors
• Support associates and or staff in the completion of their Assessor and/or Internal Quality Assurer qualifications.
• Work closely with Apprenticeship Quality, Compliance and Impact Manager to develop on-going development plans for staff to ensure that they have skills, knowledge and competence to fulfil their role
• Seek feedback, collect information and continually reflect on own practice
• Prioritise areas for own development and plan how learning and development will be achieved

Co-ordination

• Highlight improvement ideas to the Quality team to ensure the programme reflects current operational requirements
• Work within established company policies and procedures, including those related to government funding rules
• Provide appropriate data and information regarding the programme and learners as required and contribute to the regular self-assessment monitoring process
• Attend CPD and Standardisation events as appropriate including relevant qualification updates, training, meetings, events and disseminate information and good practice guidance to colleagues as required.
• Work effectively with the Quality, Compliance and Impact Manager to ensure effective & timely quality assurance to meet contractual requirements

Qualifications/Skills/Knowledge/Qualities

• Teaching and Learning Level 4 qualification or above
• Occupational Competence Level 5 in Early Years Education and or Teaching
• Assessor award Internal Verification award
• Extensive quality improvement and qualification assurance experience within Apprenticeships
• Experience & knowledge of external auditory bodies such as Ofsted and ESFA
• Demonstrable ability to provide positive, motivational and developmental feedback

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