Head of Apprenticeships & Training

Knowledge Brief

Salary:
Competitive senior leadership salary, dependent on experience

Location:

Home-based, with travel to London at least once a month. Travel for work purposes is reimbursed in full.

Contract:

Full-time

Start date:

By agreement, allowing for your notice period

Closing date:
Monday 5th October 2026

Knowledge Brief partners with organisations across the UK to develop confident, capable leaders through emotionally intelligent, evidence-based learning. We are on a mission to eliminate the accidental manager, helping people apply their learning to improve performance and build inclusive, values-driven workplaces.

Apprenticeships are central to our offer, alongside wider leadership and management training. Our programmes are delivered remotely through our own digital learning platform, developed in-house to connect learning with practical application.

Following significant growth, we are investing in our people, programmes and delivery capabilities to support our next stage of development. We are looking for a senior leader who can help shape that future, bringing deep apprenticeship expertise, strategic judgement and the ability to build a strong, commercially sustainable delivery function.

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Reporting directly to the CEO, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across our apprenticeship and training provision, with accountability for delivery performance, curriculum, quality, compliance and learner and employer outcomes.

You will bring a strong understanding of how these areas work together, using that expertise to shape priorities, evaluate opportunities and guide decisions about our future provision. You will balance educational quality and learner experience with the people, resources and financial performance needed to support sustainable growth.

Leading managers across operations, quality, curriculum, compliance and client experience, you will build capability, establish clear accountability and create the conditions for teams to succeed. You will offer support and constructive challenge, empowering leaders to take ownership while maintaining a clear view of performance and risk.

Working closely with the CEO and colleagues across Sales, People and Digital, you will help shape organisational strategy and turn ambition into a coherent, achievable approach to delivery.

• Strategy and sustainable growth:
  Shape the direction of our apprenticeship and training provision, making informed recommendations about priorities, investment and development in response to employer demand, sector change and organisational goals.
• A commercially sound delivery function:
  Align workforce capability, delivery capacity and resources with current commitments and future growth. Use financial and performance insight to strengthen efficiency and sustainability while protecting quality and learner outcomes.
• Curriculum and programme development:
  Guide the development of relevant, rigorous and engaging programmes, ensuring new and existing provision is supported by the expertise, resources and delivery approaches needed to succeed.
• Quality, compliance and safeguarding:
  Provide confident oversight of funding requirements, audit and inspection readiness, safeguarding and Prevent, embedding strong practice into everyday delivery.
• Leadership and team development:
  Develop a capable, collaborative management team with clear priorities and accountability. Strengthen the skills, structures and ways of working that will support the function as it grows.
• Performance and improvement:
  Use data, learner and employer feedback, and professional judgement to understand performance, identify…