About the Role
The Business Development Administrator will provide comprehensive administrative support to the Apprenticeship and Business Development teams, ensuring the smooth onboarding and enrolment of apprentices. The role will play a pivotal part in coordinating learner registrations, maintaining compliance documentation, supporting employer engagement activities, and ensuring an excellent customer experience for learners and employers throughout the enrolment journey.
The successful candidate will be highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and compliance with apprenticeship funding requirements.
This role is fixed term with the end date of 01 March 2027.
What You Will Do
- Coordinate and manage the end-to-end administration of apprentice enrolments.
- Prepare, process, and check all enrolment documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Generate apprenticeship agreements, training plans, and supporting documentation.
- Maintain learner records within the organisation's CRM, MIS, and apprenticeship systems.
- Monitor enrolment progress and proactively follow up with employers and learners to obtain required information.
- Ensure all learner documentation is completed and stored in line with funding and compliance requirements.
- Schedule onboarding meetings, inductions, and enrolment appointments.
About You
- Excellent organisational and planning skills.
- Strong administration and data management capability.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Professional and customer-focused approach.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
- Effective stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.
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.
