Internal Quality Assurer (IQA)

Salary: £30,800

Location: Basingstoke

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic wellbeing. Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life. In the past five years, we’ve supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We’re part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

Your Role

The Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) will play a key role in ensuring the organisation’s training and assessment activities meet regulatory and awarding body standards. You will monitor and evaluate assessors’ work, providing feedback and guidance, and maintaining accurate records of quality assurance activities. You will work closely with the trainer and external verifier to support continuous improvement and ensure that learners receive high-quality support, and a robust teaching, learning and assessment process.

Your Responsibilities

• Ensure internal quality assurance and verification of all qualifications.
• Monitor and evaluate assessment processes for consistency and compliance.
• Support trainers/assessors with feedback, skills development, and standardisation.
• Ensure qualification units meet awarding organisations’ requirements.
• Prepare and document standardisation meetings and sampling plans.
• Assist with External Verification visits and action follow-ups.
• Maintain accurate records of IQA activities and support tracking of assessments.
• Collaborate with the delivery team on improving teaching quality and compliance.
• Embed British Values, PREVENT, and safeguarding in lessons.

Essential

Your Skills, Experience & Qualifications

• IQA qualification
• Assessing qualification, CAVA, TAQA, A1, or equivalent
• Level 2 Functional Skills in Mathematics and English or equivalent
• Experience in quality assurance within a training or education setting, ideally within employability and/or a vocational training setting to awarding body standards.

Desirable

• PTTLS, DTTLS or equivalent
• Construction or vocational trades experience / knowledge
• Familiarity with Edexcel, NCFE, Ascentis qualifications (Desirable)
• Experience in the welfare-to-work sector (Desirable).

Here’s What Makes Fedcap a Rewarding Career

• A real opportunity to make a genuine social difference
• An inclusive and supportive culture
• Learning and development opportunities to help you grow from day one (including a two-week induction and the opportunity of an Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) qualification for all employees)
• Competitive benchmarked salary plus additional bonus and recognition schemes
• £500 a year to spend with your choice of over 900 retailers
• Pension 5% matched and free life cover (4 x salary)
• Health and wellbeing support with an internal Wellbeing Team and our Employee Assistance Programme (including 24/7 telephone support, counselling, legal and financial information, mindfulness, digital gym)
• Supporting your work/life fit through a range of flexible working options, 33 days annual leave, buy/ sell holiday scheme, no bank holiday or weekend working!
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• A cycle to work scheme that is open all year long!
• Laptop and mobile phone for every employee!

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

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About Us

Mission: To create opportunities for people by designing and delivering innovative, sustainable solutions and creating measurable changes for those who are socially disadvantaged.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland delivers employability solutions across the UK to build communities through a blend of local frontline professional teams and like-minded supply chain partners, using innovative and tested ideas developed both locally and internationally.

Our service is designed to give each individual the best opportunity according to his/her abilities and needs. Our programs provide targeted employment supports to a range of underserved groups, including single parents, people who were previously incarcerated and individuals with health, mental health and/or substance use conditions.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland joined The Fedcap Group in 2018.

Website: http://www.fedcapemployment.org/