Job title:Lead IQA Practitioner
Location:Samlesbury – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £47,596+ dependent on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and manage the IQA process, ensuring efficient claims and sign-offs, facilitating stakeholder engagement, and identifying opportunities to enhance assessment quality and compliance.
- Assess and monitor learner progress and performance of a small group of learners in line with standards and legislative requirements to ensure occupational competence.
- Provide support and guidance to Internal Quality Assurers (IQAs) to deliver IQA plan and ensuring the team stay updated on policy changes, best practices, and procedural updates.
- Prepare for and host External Quality Assurance (EQA) visits, ensuring all documentation and evidence is readily available and that the process runs smoothly.
- Prepare reports on the progress of learners and the effectiveness of the assessment processes for senior management and stakeholders.
- Stay abreast of developments in the field of education and assessment to ensure best practices are implemented within the organisation, whilst seeking feedback internally from learners and assessors to identify improvements in the assessment process.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Knowledge of assessment processes, End-Point Assessments (EPA), and Internal/External Quality Assurance (IQA/EQA) requirements
- Proven experience of working with internal and external quality assurance and funding regulations
- Proven experience in a complex administrative environment
- TAQA Level 4 (IQA) qualification or equivalent and experience of undertaking IQA activities at Level 4
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Early Careers & Skills Team:
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Lead IQA to join our Early Careers and Skills (EC&S) team. In this pivotal role, you will drive quality and consistency across our apprenticeship and skills programmes, ensuring high standards of assessment and quality assurance are embedded throughout the learner journey (including regulated qualifications and end point assessment activity).
You’ll work closely with delivery teams and key stakeholders to lead on quality assurance processes, support continuous improvement, and contribute to the development of outstanding programmes. This is a fantastic opportunity to influence positive change, champion best practice, and make a real impact in a dynamic and forward-thinking environment.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date:9th May 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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