Training Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Ark Schools

Ark Schools

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Description

Training Officer

Location:
Ark Schools Central

Training Officer
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Reports to:Head of Programmes and Partnerships

Location:
Birmingham - currently operating an agile working policy with three core days in the Teaching School Hub Office at Ark Boulton Academy (events permitting and travel around England might be

required)

Contract FTC (12 Months)

Pattern Full time (standard hours 9am - 5.30pm, although some earlier starts, or later finishes may be required to cover events)

Closing date:22/06/2023 at 10am

Salary:
£25,409 to £27,852 (depending on experience)

Start Date:
September 2023 (or sooner if available)

About the role:

This is an exciting time to join the Ark Teaching School Hub, the Department for Education (DfE) designated hub for South Birmingham.

Our Teaching School Hub is a centre of excellence for teacher and leader professional development across the region and beyond.

Our Teaching School Hub allows us to leverage expertise in teacher training and professional development, both within our network and the wider educational communities to which we belong.

That's important because we believe that working together is key to everything Ark does:
our work has its greatest impact when we share our expertise and knowledge.

We deliver the DfE's 'golden thread' of teacher and leader professional development, specialist targeted professional development programmes for senior leaders and other one-off training sessions.

We are also an appropriate body for early career teachers completing their two-year induction.

We work closely with other mission aligned organisations including Ambition Institute, who we have partnered with to deliver our ECT and NPQ programmes.

We are looking for a Training Officer to play a key role in ensuring the success of Ark Teaching School Hub as it continues to establish itself in south Birmingham.

This role is designed to give operational and administrative support to the numerous programmes run by Ark and Ark's Teaching School Hub.

Key Responsibilities

Operational support for the delivery of our appropriate body services, early career framework programme and events virtual and inperson
Manage the relationship and processes with our external programme accreditation provider and lead on the programme quality assurance process
Provide day to day support with the management of our professional development programmes' LMSs and improve the ways we use them
Project managing the scheduling of training events and making sure any potential clashes are considered
Working with schools and external venues to book venues and manage resources required (i.e., AV and catering)
Being the first point of contact for external providers and communicating any curriculum and operational changes to team members as appropriate
Making sure internal and external processes are aligned e.g., registration of participants, assessment submissions and feedback, etc
Manage the administration of ECT Manager and our Lead Provider's early career framework programme platform
To execute PA functions for the team such as photocopying, diary management
To organise travel, hotel booking, hospitality and catering when required

Key Requirements:

Experience of planning complex schedules
Experience of project and/or events management
Strong administrative and organisational skills with excellent attention to detail (multiple schedules/ stakeholders (internal and external)/ venues/resource requirements/ diaries)

View the full job description and person specification

here

About Ark
We're an international charity, transforming lives through education. We exist to give every young person, regardless of their background, a great education and real choices in life.

In the UK, we're a network of 39 schools, educating around 28,500 pupils in areas where we can make the biggest difference and we're recognised as one of the highest achieving academy groups in the country.

We want to change the lives of children everywhere, not just in our own schools.

So, we create and incubate Ventures designed not only to help pupils in Ark schools, but also to improve education systems.

You'll be joining a group of like-minded, ambitious individuals who work collaboratively and are all committed to our core mission, that every child has the potential to succeed.

Having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, we are shaping our goals for the next 20 and there has never been a more exciting time to join us.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with each year of service and full office closure between Christmas and New Year
Hybrid working, with currently three core days a week in the Teaching School Hub Office at Ark Boulton Academy
A flexible approach to working with understanding and consideration for work life balance and personal commitments
As an Ark employee, you will have the