About the Role
This is a Fixed Term contract for 18 months (duration of the apprenticeship).
Apprenticeship pay rates for this post are dependent on age. Please see below for the applicable rates:
Level 2 Apprenticeship Rates
Under 18 years £14,874 per annum
18-20 years £19,600 per annum
21+ years £23,555 per annum
This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to learn and develop, or who may be entering this career pathway for the first time and wants to develop their skills and knowledge in a Business Administrator role.
The post holder will offer a customer-focused, responsive, and quality administrative service whilst ensuring efficient, accurate and timely processing of purchasing transactions. In particular, the post holder will support the wider Subcontracting team in the maintenance of the enrolments, apprentice database, employer contracts, registers, audit and quality processes. The post holder will, at all times, comply with LCC Group Financial Regulations and Funding rules processes and maintain a proactive and diligent approach to fraud awareness.
You will attend off the job once a week and complete all of your learning whilst working at Leeds City College. An assessor/coach will be assigned to you as the apprentice and meet with you every 6-8 weeks to support and guide you through the programme.
The Apprenticeship will take 15 months with an additional 3 months at the end for the assessment, which involves the completion of a learning portfolio, a test your knowledge quiz and a work based project.
Join us, and you’ll discover that there’s more to running a business than you ever expected. You’ll get to work in the centre of a busy, focused team responsible for the quality and compliance of subcontracting provision, working on projects that have a company-wide impact, and you’ll spot a thousand ways to make your mark. You’ll get lots of development opportunities, along with plenty of in-house and external mentoring and support.
What You Will Do
- Support and assist with the effective and efficient running of the quality and compliance within the Subcontracting team by assisting with funding & audit checks.
- Maintain the learners, providers and employer details within the MIS database, processing requests for new learners, initial assessment, ensuring they are audit compliant for the Luminate education Group, ensuring accurate input to prevent duplication and ensuring that employers' financial and other information is accurate and authentic.
- Undertake general administrative and clerical tasks, including word processing, use of databases, purchase order processing, spreadsheets, email, photocopying, scanning and filing.
- To support the Contract, Quality and Performance meetings with subcontractors to drive quality within the provision.
- To carry out regular accuracy checks of all data within the Department as directed by the leadership team and maintain data standards including adherence to the GDPR.
About You
- It is essential that you can work well with people within a team.
- This role will need engagement from the whole department, so excellent communication skills will be an advantage.
- You will need to be highly organised and focused-driven.
- Self starter with a can-do attitude.
- Good attendance and timekeeping skills.
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity.
Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.
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