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Financial Services Skills Development Tutor – Pension Administration

Job Description

The Growth Company’s (GC) Education & Skills Financial Services team are looking for a Pensions Administration expert to join their established apprenticeship delivery team. The role is ideally suited to someone who has worked in the Pensions Industry and is looking for a new challenge coaching and mentoring the next generation of Pensions experts. We have the expertise to develop your coaching and mentoring skills to support apprentices who are just embarking on their Pensions career across a wide range of employers and this role would suit someone with experience in Pensions Administration.

The key elements of the role are to support the apprentices developing their Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours linked to their work-related activities and support for the Award in Pensions Essentials (PMI Professional Qualification).

Experience of coaching, mentoring and training staff members or colleagues in their roles is all that is needed to join our team, we can develop the skills you need to become a Pensions Skills Development Tutor.

Location: Remote delivery with travel to our Head Office in Manchester expected once per quarter.

Key Responsibilities:

• Account manages a learner caseload in line with our business KPI’s, and to support facilitate progression and securing repeat business.
• Plan and design face to face and blended digital sequential curriculum to promote the attainment of retainable knowledge, skills and behaviours.
• Mark/feedback students’ work provide structured actions for learners to undertake to complete their programme.
• Accurately track KSB progress of all learners and effectively risk band their timely progress and achievement against a set of KPI measures.
• Undertake and log industrial and pedological continuing professional development.
• Ensure risk assessments are in place and reviewed annually so that learners are safe.
• Support the team’s continual professional attainment and development through leading on and participating in a range of internal quality assurance activities.

About You:

• To support creating conceptualise learning materials to develop a learners knowledge and skills of the Industry.
• The ability to plan and organise workload effectively.
• Are motivating and inspiring and have life experience in a Pensions role to share real life examples of how the Pensions Industry works.
• Ability to use a variety of digital systems and eLearning platforms to direct and support learners.
• Excellent communication skills.

Requirements:

• At least 3 years industry experience is essential.
• Experience of coaching, mentoring learning in past or present role.
• The ability to use a variety of digital systems and eLearning platforms to direct and support learners.
• Well-developed IT skills, including and understanding of computerised management information systems. spreadsheet, diary management and email.
• Up to date knowledge of specialist subject area/professional qualifications as appropriate.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at [email protected] or call us on 0161 237 4447.

Our annual leave entitlement starts at 25 days, plus bank holidays which increases with length of service with the opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional days leave each year.

Access to counselling via our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have 8 EDI steering group to make sure we value our differences and enable an environment of fairness, dignity and respect.

We offer up to two days’ paid leave to volunteer at a charity of choice through our Volunteer2Day scheme.

We offer travel loans, discounted seasonal travel tickets for public transport and a great cycle to work scheme promoting opportunities to reduce environmental pollution and a healthier lifestyle.

We have an enhanced learning and development offer for all staff and managers with opportunities for mentoring, undertaking apprenticeships and continuous professional development.