Apprentice Assessment Lead

ICE is an international membership organisation that promotes and advances civil engineering around the world. ICE is a qualifying body, a centre for the exchange of specialist knowledge, and a provider of resources to encourage innovation and excellence in the profession worldwide.

The Role:

The Apprentice Assessment Lead has specific responsibility within the professional registrations team for managing the operation of the end point assessment sessions, thereby overseeing the end-to-end processes of each apprenticeship standard and for ensuring standards of quality are maintained both in assessments and in communications with apprentices and assessors.

They will also be responsibility for making sure that ICE remains compliant with ICE External Quality Assurance (EQA) body Ofqual and be responsible for the setting up and managing of the working groups required to maintain and develop assessment resources such as Technical Project briefs and Question banks.

The Apprentice Assessment Lead reports to the team manager, the Professional Registrations Manager, and supports them in the running of the team and deputises for them as and when appropriate.

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• Organising and managing the end-to-end processes for each End Point Assessment session
• Coordinating executives and administrators to ensure assessment services are delivered effectively and on time.
• Championing excellent customer service
• Maintaining the policy and procedures manual, website, and associated guidance documents and application forms.
• Providing accurate advice and guidance on each of the Apprenticeship Standards which ICE is an End Point Assessor Organisation for
• Liaising with external bodies (employers, training providers), and External Quality Assurance organisations - IfATE, Ofqual and ICE teams globally on the End Point Assessment processes.
• Act as secretariat to the Technical Project brief/Question Bank working groups including preparation and issuing the agenda and associated papers together with drafting the minutes and implementation of any actions resulting from the meeting.
• Responsible for maintaining regulatory compliance
• Analysing and reporting on the numbers of End Point Assessment applications, results, completed registrations, and other associated data

The ideal candidate will have:

• Ability to communicate and influence through the use of strong written and verbal skills.
• Data management and analytical skills.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to motivate themselves and others.
• Experience of coordinating and supervising a team delivering process-orientated tasks and activities.
• Experience of working with committees, writing minutes and reports, and drafting documentation.
• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills.
• Good attention to detail.
• Intermediate MS Office, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint and proprietary database systems.

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