Job title: Apprenticeship Operations Lead
Location: Home Based, with national travel when required
Job type: Full time, 37 hours per week
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality apprenticeship programmes and ensuring compliance, efficiency, and learner success? Join EDT as an Apprenticeship Operations Lead and play a pivotal role in shaping our growing apprenticeship provision.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead operational management of apprenticeship delivery processes.
- Ensure compliance with ESFA/DfE funding rules and Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework (EIF).
- Manage ILR data submissions and funding claims.
- Oversee quality assurance processes, audits, and learner progress tracking.
- Coordinate End-Point Assessments (EPA) and liaise with awarding bodies.
- Promote safeguarding and Prevent duties, ensuring learner welfare.
- Support enrolment processes and employer partnerships.
What We’re Looking For:
- Essential Knowledge: In-depth understanding of apprenticeship funding rules, ILR requirements, safeguarding, and quality assurance frameworks.
- Essential Experience: Significant experience in apprenticeship delivery, ILR submissions, EPA coordination, and audits.
- Skills: Strong organisational, communication, and data management skills.
Why Join Us?
At EDT we pride ourselves on creating an environment that supports a healthy work life balance for all our staff. We provide policies that encourage flexible working around individual needs. We offer a range of benefits including a generous holiday allowance, pension scheme and additional voluntary money saving benefits* that can be seen below.
Salary and Benefits:
Salary £37,471 per annum
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
- 6% matched pension scheme
- Discounted gym memberships*
- Health care cash plan*
- Retail discounts*
- Cycle to work scheme
- Wellbeing App
When you join Education Development Trust, you’ll join a vibrant, diverse, international organisation which has collaboration and inclusion at its heart. Our vision is a world in which all lives are transformed through excellent education. We seek to strengthen education systems, transform teaching and learning and contribute to global responses to key education challenges.
We are one of the largest providers of professional development programmes in the UK and we have been at the forefront of system change in England, having led a wide range of national initiatives. Our goal is to offer evidence-led, highly impactful professional development pathways for teachers and leaders at all levels. Everything we do has been carefully designed to make a tangible impact on classroom practice and school culture to improve the outcomes and life chances of learners.
We are offering the opportunity to flex your creativity in this varied role, so if you think this could be the right position for you, please do apply.
Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for this position. Candidates must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Closing date: 3 October 2025 (Please note, we reserve the right to close our vacancies early if sufficient applications are received).
Interviews will take place week commencing 13 October 2025.
To find out more about our work in the UK please click here
Education Development Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults whom we work with and come into contact with around the world. All applicants are subject to thorough screening and for applicable roles, successful candidates are subject to relevant criminal record checks with national police authorities or the UK’s Disclosure and Barring Service.
At Education Development Trust, we strive to create a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and knows they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks. We’re committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Education Development Trust an inclusive place to work. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application. We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.
We understand that artificial intelligence (AI) tools (such as Cha tGPT) can be helpful when applying for jobs – especially for those who require additional support during the recruitment process. However, while you may decide to use AI tools for ideas or pointers, we request that you do not rely heavily on them when answering questions. We are looking for responses that are personal to you, including details and examples of your abilities and work experience to date, and we consider copying and pasting AI-generated responses to be a misuse of AI tools. Likewise, we do not use AI-driven recruitment screening software, because we value authenticity and prefer to make personal connections with our candidates. If you have used AI to support your application – including in emails and responses to questions – please disclose this on your application form. If you would like clarification on how AI can be used in your application to EDT, please contact the Recruitment team via the EDT website.
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