IQA Lead

Lead Internal Quality Assurer

Salary: £35,000 – £40,000

Location:

Cardiff - Office, 3 days per week

Contract:

Full-time, Permanent

Hours:

Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 4:30pm

Lead Quality. Inspire Excellence. Drive Success.

Are you an experienced Internal Quality Assurer ready to take the next step in your career?

We are looking for a Lead Internal Quality Assurer to join a forward-thinking training and education organisation, where quality, learner success and professional development are at the heart of everything we do.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced IQA, Lead IQA or Quality professional to lead a high-performing team, strengthen quality processes and play a key role in improving learner achievement, compliance and the overall quality of teaching, learning and assessment.

As Lead Internal Quality Assurer, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to a team of IQAs, ensuring consistent, robust and effective quality assurance across a range of vocational learning and apprenticeship programmes.

• Lead, motivate and develop a team of Internal Quality Assurers, promoting a strong culture of quality, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the day-to-day management of the IQA function, ensuring effective systems, processes and quality assurance activity.
• Ensure compliance with awarding organisation requirements, apprenticeship standards and relevant quality frameworks.
• Allocate workloads effectively and manage IQA diaries, ensuring sampling, verification and quality activity is completed within agreed timescales.
• Develop and implement robust sampling and verification plans to support learner progression, achievement and consistency.
• Monitor performance profiles and take proactive action to ensure targets
• Conduct regular team reviews, one-to-ones and appraisals.
• Contribute to the development of high-quality learning resources and materials.
• Promote consistency, efficiency and best practice across all quality assurance and assessment activity.
• Maintain a strong focus on learner experience, progression and successful achievement.

• Recognised Assessor qualification or equivalent.
• Recognised IQA qualification or equivalent.
• Relevant occupational competence.
• Proven experience delivering training, assessment and learner support.
• Previous management, supervisory or team leadership experience.
• A strong track record of leading, motivating and developing people.
• In-depth knowledge of apprenticeship programmes, assessment methods and IQA processes.
• Strong understanding of Awarding Organisation requirements.
• Knowledge of Estyn inspection requirements.
• Excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly conscientious, self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.
• Willingness to travel as required.

• Experience coordinating External Quality Assurance (EQA) visits.
• Previous involvement in an Estyn inspection.
• Welsh-speaking ability.

If you're an ambitious IQA professional looking for your next leadership opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.