Skills Coach Degree Apprenticeships

About the role

We are seeking to recruit a Skills Coach (Degree Apprenticeships) in the Faculty of Science and Engineering who will support our growing cohort of Degree Apprentices. The postholder will support our apprentices in developing the skills and behaviours needed to thrive in their apprenticeships – this will include leading tri-partite meetings with apprentices and their employers.

Sitting within the Faculty of Science and Engineering Degree Apprenticeship Team, the post holder will undertake a range of duties to support and coach L6 Degree Apprentices to develop their knowledge, skills and behaviours to successfully complete their apprenticeship. This post will also be responsible for leading tri-partite meetings with apprentices and employers.  This is a hybrid role, with opportunities to work at Queen Mary’s Mile End Campus, London City Institute of Technology and remote working. 

About You

This role may suit someone with a Technical professional background who has experience of coaching /mentoring individuals. The successful candidate will have an understanding of Degree Apprenticeships and demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting students effectively to enable them to succeed and thrive.

About the Faculty of Science and Engineering

The Faculty of Science and Engineering comprises of five Schools that deliver the research and education activity of the Faculty. The Faculty has a wide range of key interactions with partner organisations, including with overseas partners, other Government departments, research and education networks, funders and regulators. The role sits within the Professional Services job family and the role holder is expected to be an active part of the University’s support staff family, working with academic colleagues across a wide range of responsibilities to help deliver its academic mission.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Pooja Kanani p.kanani@qmul.ac.uk

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