Our End Point Assessment team are searching for an experienced, dedicated individual to join Innovate. Acting as an ambassador of IAO, you will be responsible for carrying out end-point assessment activities and making decisions for apprenticeship standards.

What will you be doing? 

• Conducting end-point assessment planning meetings with apprentices and their employers
• Agreeing a plan and schedule for each assessment activity with the apprentices and employers to ensure all components can be completed within the end assessment window
• Completing the planned assessment activities, marking in line with grading criteria for the apprenticeship standards and confirming that each assessment element has been completed
• Determining the overall grade for the apprentice based on the combination of performance in all assessment activities following the assessment guidelines
• Communicating and reporting decisions about end point assessment to IAO in agreed timeframes
• Following agreed procedures for recording, storing and maintaining confidentiality of information in a timely manner
• Attend and participate in standardisation and training activities, ensuring standardised assessment principles set out by IAO are carried out
• Ensuring no conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest exist which could adversely influence your judgment, or prevent you from providing an objective independent view
• Acquiring and maintaining up to date knowledge of the occupational area and maintaining a record of evidence of your continuous professional development (CPD)
• Provide advice to the Assessment Services team on specific End-point assessment queries, when requested
• Report any market, customer or sector information to the End-point Assessor Manager in a timely fashion
• To maintain an up-to-date caseload of apprentices in IAOs EPA-Pro IT system, ensuring all activity is updated in a timely fashion.
• Carry out assessment activity through both face to face and electronic mediums
• Working in line with IAO policies at all times

What will you bring to the role?

• Ability to use a range of IT systems (training will be provided for EPA-Pro)
• Experience in administrative roles (e.g. completing reports and maintaining records)
• Knowledge of access to assessment and equal opportunities
• Excellent time management skills
• The ability to work autonomously, in line with an operating framework
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of role
• Ability to operate sensitively and effectively with a wide range of learners
• Awareness and understanding of learner difficulties/disabilities and social needs.

Giving back to you – our Group Benefits

• 25 days' holiday rising with service and your birthday off.
• Holiday purchase scheme for those life changing trips and moments.
• Long service reward and recognition
• Enhanced Pension
• Group Life Assurance – 3 x Annual salary
• Unlimited access to six Smart Health services including a 24/7 virtual GP
• Health Cash Plan
• Access to curated wellbeing content and our Employee Assistance Programme
• Perkbox
• To support your work/life balance we give you the opportunity of flexibility within our core working hours (9.00 – 5.30).
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity/Shared Parental and Adoption packages leave
• A reward programme and recognition programme and annual awards event

Who are Innovate

Innovate Awarding is an independent awarding organisation with a 'no surprises approach' to assessment.  We provide End-point Assessment services for apprenticeship Standards, and vocational qualifications for work-based learning and those transitioning to work, across 15 sectors and we're growing. We’re trusted by employers and their training organisations across the country to evaluate Apprentice competence.

Innovate is part of the Lifetime Training Group. As a Group we are passionate about learning and creating life changing opportunities for our learners.  We are made up of four unique businesses, two of which focus on apprentice training across a range of professions, one that focusses on awarding qualifications, and one which develops the awarding software.  

We are at the forefront of innovative training and awarding and as a larger group network we can offer a broad range of development opportunities, great benefits and a people focussed reward and recognition offering.