Degree Apprenticeships Manager (025518)

The University of Surrey has ambitious plans to grow its Degree Apprenticeship offer, delivering industry responsive courses and higher-level skills to industry partners nationally and locally.

We are seeking applications from motivated and dynamic individuals to the post of Degree Apprenticeship Manager. You will have a proven track record as part of the management team for delivering degree apprenticeships in a higher education setting or extensive experience of working in apprenticeship support at a senior level. You will have a proven record of working collaboratively and innovatively as part of a broader team focused on building employer partnerships, customer account management and the operational aspects of working with academic departments on programme development and delivery internally , and working externally with the Education and Skills Agency and other stakeholder groups with an interest in apprenticeships.

The Degree Apprenticeships Manager role offers the opportunity to develop and implement a wide-range of innovative approaches to developing degree apprenticeship programmes at a time of opportunity for the University to bring experienced management to an area of academic programme delivery which is new to the University. In bringing operational service leadership to the University the post holder will work with the Director of Employability and Careers and the Degree Apprenticeship Steering Group to report to the University’s Teaching and Learning Committee and Executive Board to ensure that the University’s excellent reputation with employers is maintained.

As Degree Apprenticeships Manager you will work with academic departments to identify growth opportunities within our planned Apprenticeships provision to create a commercially viable income stream.  You will build, manage, and lead an Apprenticeships Team to optimise relationships with existing customers and develop a strategy for engaging new businesses across a variety of industry sectors whilst ensuring internal systems and processes are in place to meet demand.

As regards relationship management with employers, you will act as commercial ambassador for the University. A major element of the role will be building upon the links the University has with industry to ensure employer responsive degree apprenticeship provision that also meets the University’s objectives in its corporate plan with regard to strategic employer engagement.

We want to maintain our ranking as one of the UK’s top ten universities, to continue to attract the brightest students by giving them the best quality university experience and, in the case of degree apprenticeships, ensure that our programme design and delivery meets with employer expectations. We want to recruit and retain talented people like you to help us achieve these goals.

We have a beautiful, green campus with a lake and on-site restaurants, cafes and shops, conveniently located near Guildford town centre and the railway station.

The University of Surrey is amongst the highest achieving universities in the United Kingdom, having been awarded the Times/ Sunday Times University of the Year Award for 2016. We are ranked 10th in The Times Higher Education Table of Tables for UK universities in 2017, and we are the recipient of four Queen’s Anniversary Prizes.

In addition to a competitive salary you will receive 32 days annual leave/closure days and a great benefits package including pension and discounted membership to our world-renowned Surrey Sports Park.

Any interested party is welcome to contact the Director of Employability and Careers, Mr Keith Herrmann (k.herrmann@surrey.ac.uk), to discuss any specific aspects of the role.

Closing Date: 07 May 2018
Category: Professional Services