About this role
🎓Director of Apprenticeships 📍 Hugh Baird College, Bootle, Liverpool 🕓 Full-Time Permanent 📅 50 days holiday + 8 bank holidays 💷 £54,571 - £56,911 per annum 💼 Teachers’ Pension Scheme 🎁 Access to Medicash and many other staff benefits Join an Outstanding Team At Hugh Baird College, an Ofsted Outstanding provider, we are committed to inspiring, challenging, and transforming lives. Our students are at the heart of everything we do, and we foster a workplace where ideas are valued, creativity is nurtured, and professional growth is supported. Lead Excellence. Drive Growth. Transform Apprenticeships Are you an exceptional leader with the vision, experience and ambition to shape the future of apprenticeship education and training? We are seeking a Director of Apprenticeships to provide operational leadership for one of the College's most important strategic areas. This is an exciting opportunity to lead high-performing teams, drive quality and compliance, and ensure outstanding outcomes for apprentices and employers. Reporting to the Assistant Principal (Apprenticeships), you will lead the operational delivery of the College's apprenticeship provision, ensuring excellence in learner achievement, employer satisfaction, funding compliance and quality assurance. You will play a pivotal role in translating strategic priorities into operational success, whilst driving continuous improvement and sustainable growth. Working closely with Curriculum Managers and employer-facing teams, you will foster a culture of high expectations, accountability and innovation, ensuring the College's apprenticeship offer remains responsive to employer needs and aligned with regional and national skills priorities. Whether you are already operating at director level or are an experienced senior leader within apprenticeships looking for your next challenge, this role offers an outstanding opportunity to make a lasting impact within an ambitious and high-performing organisation. Interested candidates are advised to apply early, as the vacancy will close once the right candidate is found. As Director of Apprenticeships, you will provide operational leadership for the College's apprenticeship provision, ensuring outstanding quality, compliance, learner outcomes and employer satisfaction across all apprenticeship programmes. Working closely with the Assistant Principal, you will play a key role in delivering the College's apprenticeship strategy, driving continuous improvement and supporting sustainable growth. You will: Lead the operational management of the College's apprenticeship provision, ensuring outstanding learner, employer and stakeholder experiences. Provide leadership and direction to Curriculum Managers and apprenticeship teams, creating a culture of high expectations, accountability and continuous improvement. Drive improvements in recruitment, retention, achievement, timely achievement, learner progress, employer satisfaction and destination outcomes. Lead quality assurance and quality improvement activity, ensuring continuous readiness for Ofsted inspections, ESFA audits and awarding organisation requirements. Use performance intelligence and data to identify trends, mitigate risks and drive sustained improvements across apprenticeship provision. Work collaboratively with employer engagement, business development and curriculum teams to strengthen employer partnerships and support apprenticeship growth. Ensure apprenticeship provision operates fully in line with funding regulations, compliance requirements and College strategic objectives. Support the development of innovative apprenticeship delivery models that respond to employer needs and regional skills priorities.