Total 3 job vacancies by The Growth Company

The Growth Company’s (GC) Finance team have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Compliance Officer you will report directly to the Head of Compliance you will support business growth of our business through maintaining and developing the Company’s internal and regulatory compliance programs, policies, guidelines, and procedures to ensure the company adheres to the requirements of all applicable laws and regulations, industry standards, and risk management practices.

The Growth Company is an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. We deliver a range of services, working with customers and stakeholders to achieve our vision of a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind.

Role is remote, but you will be required to be in the office in Manchester as and when needed for meetings.

Key Responsibilities:

Perform risk/compliance assessments to understand risk level, significance, and scope.
Keep up to date with, and understand, relevant laws and regulations.
Monitor compliance across the business with laws, regulations, and internal policies.
Assist in the on-going education of employees of regulations, and the impact of non-compliance on the organisation.
Investigate irregularities and non-compliance issues.
Ensure that findings are recorded and followed up with management so that issues can be rectified.
Report back to business functions on current risk and compliance performance, highlighting or escalating areas of concern.
Perform various general administrative duties (such as file creation and maintenance of ongoing administrative/compliance projects).
About you:

Balance team and individual responsibilities.
Take ownership for workload and is proactive in approach.
Demonstrate sufficient self-awareness to identify personal strengths and areas for development.
Calm, reasonable, and professional manner.
Review and reflects on personal behaviour and able to make adjustments accordingly.
Flexible to change, eager to improve and develop new skills.
Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
Skills Required:

Previous experience in a compliance role within financial services.
Good knowledge of industry best risk management practice including FCA/OPBAS /ICO/PECR/ISO & regulatory requirements.
Experience in developing and implementing compliance policies and processes.
Able to oversee 3rd party outsourced providers.
AML CTF regulation knowledge would be beneficial.
GDPR data protection knowledge would be good.
Some knowledge of CCA 1974 regulations would be beneficial.

The Growth Company’s (GC) Education and Skills team have an exciting new opportunity for Key Worker To work with a case load of 16–19-year-olds in order to provide the support necessary to facilitate learner recruitment, retention on programme, achievement of learning aims & progression.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels. Work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

To engage and case manage learners on Study Programmes and provide advocacy, mentoring, advice and guidance and ‘employability’ interventions that meet the needs of individuals in order to sustain progress on programme and ensure positive outcomes.
Ensure engagement with young people is of a high quality and establishing relationships with new learners and assist them to understand the potential benefits of The Skills Company services and encourage commitment to the programme.
Establish and deliver both group and one-to-one activities as part of learner interventions including initial assessments, inductions, and action plans with learners.
Enable learners to access and use information (including Careers education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG).
Record discussions and training sessions on database and co-ordinate further activity with learners.
Deliver intervention with students as required, assisting learners to decide on options for meeting their career aims and provide support for planning a course of action.
Prepare and develop resources to support ‘employability’ and Personal and Social Development (PSD).
Carry out associated administration work including report writing, collecting, and analysing management information, evaluating service delivery and audit and review of records.
About you:

Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiating skills.
A warm, approachable empathetic style and the ability to establish a rapport and build relationships with young people that support their progression in learning and on to sustained employment.
Ability to communicate and motivate young people and employers and to influence and build working relationships.
Flexible approach to work including hot-desking, local travel, out of hours working to match when students are on placement, ability to work in the local community.
Skills Required:

Level 4 in Advice & Guidance, or equivalent (e.g. training, mentoring or youth work experience/qualifications).
High level guidance skills, with the ability to deliver one-to-one and group sessions to at least Grade 2 standard.
Able to deliver customer journey in conjunction with other professional and services.
Ability to work in a target driven environment, with a focus on the successful achievement of learning aims, and progression into further training or employment for learners.
Experience in the guidance, advice & counselling environments.
Knowledge in relation to the issues affecting individuals with multiple barriers to progressing to employment and sustained employment.
Knowledge in relation to the support agencies that can assist with individuals with complex needs (e.g. debt, substance misuse, housing etc).

The Growth Company’s Trafford Park delivery unit require a Skills Development Tutor to design and deliver a rigorous and effective learning experience in Joinery that enables positive and timely progression and achievement and meets Awarding Organisation standards and guidelines, GC Policy, Procedure, and wider quality frameworks.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our Ofsted Grade 2: Good provider status, and work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

Candidates need to be occupationally competent in all elements of joinery, as well as have an awareness of standards associated with the joinery provision.

This role will encompass Level 1, 2 and 3 learners as well as apprentices. An awareness of NVQ as well as standards is essential.

It is expected that this role will work with young people therefore the post holder has responsibilities to safeguard our client group.

Key Responsibilities

Lead by example and demonstrate leading competencies and practices across the business unit and company.
Take part in cross business unit and company development projects.
Operate within the Growth Company Internal Quality Assurance Framework to ensure consistency and compliance to internal and external policy, procedure, guidelines, and requirements and take part in the evaluation and ongoing development of these processes.
Deliver effective and efficient assessment processes that enable individual learners to progress towards and achieve identified milestones in a timely manner, supported by fair and consistent judgement of valid, reliable, sufficient, and authentic evidence.
Support learners in line with their individual needs, provide appropriate IAG and refer for additional support to ensure that individual learners continue to progress in relation to their starting point, achieve in a timely manner and are enabled to progress to positive destinations.
Record assessment decisions fully and contemporaneously and ensure the prompt and managed completion of IQA actions to enable early submission and processing to maximize timely success.
Implement feedback and development action points provided from the IQA resulting from IQA sampling, observation of practice and standardization themes to continuously improve the quality and rigor of assessment for learners.
Monitor and respond to learner and employer feedback to continuously improve the learning experience for individuals and groups.
Implement feedback from standardization, internal and external quality reviews, and audit to continuously improve the service provided.
Meet personal quality indicators, KPIs and MLPs as planned and those of the Delivery Team and The Growth Company.
Continuously review and reflect on own practice development needs and undertake CPD as required to improve own contribution to the work of the Delivery Team and The Growth Company as a whole.
Report and provide timely updates and respond to requests for information from the Senior Training and Curriculum Manager and Operations Manager.
To account manage your employer caseload selling the widest possible range of services whilst continuingly replenishing your caseload.
About You:

To develop assessment and Internal Quality Assurance processes.
Sector/Area experience and knowledge of provision required.
Effective & professional communication with Learners/Employers/colleagues.
Ability to take part in Standardisation across a range of disciplines and business units.
To lead by example on compliance and change staff behaviours.
Requirements:

You will influence and lead programs of change that make a positive impact on customer satisfaction and business performance.
Ability to comply on Internal Quality Assurance Policies and Procedure.
Qualified Assessor (A1 or TAQA) – with consistent Grading of ‘Good’ and above and ‘low risk’ Portfolio sampling risk band.
Qualified IQA (V1) desirable.
This is an office based role at our Trafford park site - 5 days per week.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

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