Twin Group is an award-winning provider of education, travel, work experience, accommodation, and employment services.  We offer a diverse number of life enhancing services to our clients and every member of our team is essential in achieving this.

To internally quality assurer all the accredited qualifications; identify improvements within the delivery across the government-funded contracts. To develop, implement and manage the internal assurance processes to comply with Twin’s and our Awarding Organisations’ regulations. To support with retaining Twin’s direct claim statuses of qualifications and assist with expanding our qualification catalogue.

The role of the IQA is to monitor and evaluate how assessors carry out their work in practice in order to highlight problems with individual assessment and the system in general.

The IQA will support the lead IQA with external agency visits. Will contribute to the self-assessment process to promote and implement quality improvements throughout the department for the QIP.

The IQA will provide a robust IQA process for teaching, learning and assessment.

The IQA will undertake internal verifier activities and will work effectively with other internal and external verifiers.

The IQA will support collecting feedback from learners on programmes monitor the quality of delivery within the programmes on offer and report changes in quality and compliance trends on the learner journey.

Responsibilities

• Experience in internally verifying work products in a robust manner in line with awarding organisations' standards – Essential
• Experience in Internal Verifying vocational qualifications – Essential
• Knowledge of Awarding Organisations; Edexcel, NCFE, Ascentis qualifications – Desirable
• Experience in the welfare-to-work sector – Desirable
• Experience in embedding British Values, PREVENT and safeguarding lessons – Essential
• Experience in creating programmes fit for delivery – Essential
• Enthusiastic, energetic, outgoing and keen to make a decisive contribution to all the aspects of a course
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and interpersonal skills
• Approachable but able to maintain a professional relationship with learners
• Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
• Flexibility and willingness to travel to different sites as stipulated by the training schedule for OTLA’s
• Good time-management and organisational skills
• Committed to continuous personal and organisational development and awareness of current developments.
• Professional appearance in line with Twin’s policy
• To complete paperwork in accordance with organisational, awarding body, funding and audit requirements.
• To ensure own training and development, including CPD, is up to date and compliant with relevant professional bodies.
• To support the ethos of Twin, its marketing and recruitment activities.
• To maintain the highest professional standards in accordance with the policies of Twin.
• Travel as required to meet the requirements of the position.
• To carry out other duties as may reasonably be required.
• To ensure the learner’s success for achievement is timely and in a month.
• 100% of completed assessments are submitted and internally verified by the allocated deadline date each month.
• To ensure no cause for concern is raised against any qualifications internally assured by the AO.

Education /Qualification 

• IQA qualification – Essential
• Assessing qualification, CAVA, TAQA, A1, or equivalent – Essential
• Level 2 Functional Skills in Mathematics and English or equivalent – Essential
• PTTLS, DTTLS or equivalent – Desirable

Additional Information

Salary: £30,000 per annum 

Location: Remote 

Contract:  Permanent - Full Time

Hours: Monday to Friday 09:00 – 17:30

Benefits: up to 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + Birthday Day off, per year; Long service award, an extra day annual leave per year completed, up to 5 additional days; 5 days paid sick leave per year; Employee referral scheme, up to £500 per successful referral; Sabbatical Leave the right to request up to 1 months unpaid sabbatical leave; Season ticket loan of up to £1000 per year; Pension contributions; Career development opportunities; 2 volunteering days per year; ability to purchase an additional 3 days annual leave per year; Death in service benefit, including an Employee Assistance Programme.

Please Note:  

The successful candidate must be able to work in the UK. 
Twin is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. 
Successful applicants will be required to undertake a standard or an enhanced disclosure via the DBS, depending on the role itself. 
We are dedicated to ensuring that all job applicants and members of staff are treated equally, without discrimination on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age. 

Disability Confident Employer 

Disabled applicants should indicate in the Equality of Opportunity section of the application form if they wish their application to be given consideration under the Disability Confident scheme.  

If you are invited to interview, please advise the recruitment administrator what adjustment you would require at the interview in as much detail as possible to enable arrangements to be put into place.  

We ask all applicants if they want to be considered under this scheme.  By opting-in to this scheme, you are disclosing that you have a disability solely for the purpose of the interview guarantee and we will not assume nor infer that you wish to disclose or record your disability in any other way – including any reasonable adjustments you may need if you are employed. 

Access to Work Scheme  

You can apply for Access to Work if you need support to get back to work. 

You can apply using the online service or apply by phoning Jobcentre Plus on: 

Telephone: 0800 121 7479 

Textphone: 0800 121 7579