Job Title: Apprenticeship Funding Compliance Manager (Military)

Location: Home-based with travel (mileage allowance)

Salary: £32,000 - £38,000 DOE

Contract Type: Full-time

Reports to: Senior Apprenticeship MIS & Funding Compliance Manager

Job Purpose: Pearson TQ is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated individual to join our Apprenticeship Funding Compliance Team. The Apprenticeship Funding Compliance Manager will be responsible for managing Pearson TQ’s military compliance teams, ensuring timely and accurate data returns, apprenticeship programme inductions, and supporting administration throughout the apprenticeship journey.

The successful applicant will have proven experience in a supervisory or leadership role within an educational or work-based learning setting, ideally within apprenticeships. The successful candidate will also have a strong working knowledge of the apprenticeship funding rules, ILR data management, and DfE/ESFA audit requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and manage a compliance team of 20+ apprenticeship coordinators and administrators over Pearson TQ’s military contracts.
• Set team goals, monitor performance, undertake quarterly performance reviews, and provide regular feedback and development opportunities.
• Motivate and support team members to achieve individual and team goals.
• Conduct regular team meetings and 1-2-1s.

Data Management

• Ensure timely and accurate monthly returns of ILR data checks by compliance teams.
• Support the compliance teams with the resolution of escalated data errors.
• Ensure timely and accurate administration of ILR data by compliance teams via Maytas MIS.
• Monitor performance against internal and external data KPIs and collate quarterly data for Army management meetings.
• Identify performance gaps and implement corrective actions where necessary.

Apprenticeship Administration

• Ensure apprenticeship evidence packs are generated at the start of apprenticeship programmes in-line with Army and DfE requirements.
• Oversee and monitor apprenticeship induction processes and procedures to ensure compliance with DfE and Army requirements.
• Update apprenticeship evidence pack paperwork annually.
• Ensure ongoing administration of apprenticeship evidence packs.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with program managers, delivery teams, quality teams, and other internal stakeholders to ensure compliance across all contracts.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders within the Army and WBL Services to address compliance-related matters affecting contracts.

Audit

• Ensure compliance teams undertake internal audit activity as per Pearson TQ’s internal audit policy.
• Coordinate with Pearson TQ’s Apprenticeship Audit Manager and support internal and external audit activity.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of changes in funding rules and audit requirements.

What We Are Looking For

You will be a highly adaptable and resilient professional with strong analytical and decision-making abilities, bringing valuable experience in apprenticeship delivery across diverse organisations.

• Proven experience in a supervisory or leadership role within an education or work-based learning setting.
• A good understanding of the apprenticeship funding rules, ILR management, and apprenticeship standards.
• The ability to coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve compliance issues.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to motivate and inspire a team.

Benefits

• 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 30 days with each year of service.
• Ability to buy or sell annual leave through our flexible leave scheme.
• TQ Aviva pension scheme.
• Private medical insurance.
• Dental insurance (optional at a reduced rate).

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.