About the Role
We are looking for a Programme Manager - Quality Standards to play a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality education and training provision across Luminate Education Group. Working with the Deputy Director of Quality Standards, the role will be responsible for overseeing the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of quality to meet regulatory requirements, awarding body standards, and national rates.
Working collaboratively with curriculum teams, support services, and awarding organisations, the Programme Manager will drive initiatives that enhance assessment, feedback and learner outcomes.
The role will also provide guidance, training, and support to managers, teachers and assessors to embed best practice.

What You Will Do

• Support the Deputy Director of Quality Standards in driving excellence and enhancing the learner experience across the organisation.
• Advising colleagues on quality improvements, overseeing classroom and apprenticeship delivery to ensure consistent standards and compliance as well as monitoring performance data to inform improvement strategies.
• Coordination of the course approval process, working with awarding organisations and analysing performance data.

About You

• Experience working with awarding organisations, ensuring excellence in assessment and verification.
• Experience in analysing data to evaluate impact, setting targets, and managing projects, with a strong track record of improving learner outcomes.
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and supporting improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational abilities as well as managing performance and meeting deadlines.
• Proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to navigate complex issues with a can-do attitude are essential.

About Us
Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.
We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.
As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.
Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.
Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

What You Will Do

• Support the Deputy Director of Quality Standards in driving excellence and enhancing the learner experience across the organisation.
• Advising colleagues on quality improvements, overseeing classroom and apprenticeship delivery to ensure consistent standards and compliance as well as monitoring performance data to inform improvement strategies.
• Coordination of the course approval process, working with awarding organisations and analysing performance data

We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

• We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
• We shall not be liable for any fee/commission in the event we employ a candidate that may have been submitted as an unsolicited/speculative application from an uninstructed recruitment agency