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Business Development Rep

• To drive the growth and success of Acorn Training’s contracts in your allocated region.
• This involves building and maintaining strategic partnerships with new and existing employers, serving as a representative at key forums.
• Effectively managing new business opportunities, and fostering local connections to secure support which ensures the sustained growth, achievement, and profitability of the designated contracts.
• Actively promote Acorn Training's services and training programmes effectively.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and execute effective marketing campaigns.
• Identify and develop productive and sustainable relationships with potential employers, partners, and wider stakeholders.
• Actively prospect to maintain a strong pipeline of potential and future learners, employers, and referral partners relevant to the contract requirements.
• Be responsible for your pipeline of opportunities, including lead generation, meetings, and closing sales against the contract to grow its value.
• Manage your pipeline of data effectively and efficiently to maximise conversion rates and continuously strive to enhance it.
• Keep your knowledge up to date in all sectors to provide personalised, passionate, and ethical information, advice and guidance to potential employers and customers at all given opportunities.
• Use CRM and other systems accurately and consistently to document your progress with your pipeline, demonstrations, and meetings for daily forecasting.
• Work with your team to ensure a smooth transition from sale through onboarding to delivery.
• Attend networking events and exhibitions in your region to become familiar with your target audience and their needs.
• Share knowledge and best practices with your colleagues and peers to enhance the experience of potential customers.
• Contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the business, offering new suggestions and ideas wherever possible.
• Achieve the KPIs set on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Ensure consistently high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

Business Development Manager – Housing Apprenticeships

Trainer

• Responsible for an agreed caseload of apprentices and employer-based learners, providing them with high-quality training, coaching, mentoring and assessment to achieve their apprenticeship standard, and/or associated qualifications, in a timely manner.
• Ensure that assessment of learners’ starting points is used in planning and sequencing their training regarding knowledge, skills, behaviours, English and maths development.
• Develop and agree individual training plans, in collaboration with employers, which provide support to learners to meet the content of, and effectively prepare them for, the final assessment/end point assessment.
• Ensure that all learners and employers are provided with a comprehensive induction programme, confirming that employers know their roles and responsibilities in the collaborative relationship to support the progress of their learner.
• Develop and implement effective training and learning strategies and activities, including resources to support learners in making progress towards successful completion of their learning programme.
• Provide training, coaching and assessment ensuring training meets standards set by Acorn Training and Awarding Organisations (AO), including complying with the relevant AO and Acorn Training quality assurance processes and requirements in all assessment practice, and presenting learners’ work for quality assurance purposes when required.
• Ensure that off-the-job training is effectively planned and tracked as part of the individual apprentices’ training plan and is robustly monitored.
• Actively support and encourage the continuous development of learners’ English, maths, and digital skills.
• Ensure all learners have access to pastoral support, including ensuring a good understanding of Safeguarding, Prevent, Radicalisation, Equality, Diversity and Fundamental British values.
• Organise and plan assessment opportunities and regular review meetings with learners and their employer to set and review targets and progress, and ensure constructive feedback that is developmental, is documented and provided to enhance learners’ progress.
• Provide information, advice and guidance to learners and employers throughout their programme, ensuring that all learners are aware of Guidance and Wellbeing available to them to support their progress.
• Effectively manage timescales and be clear in setting and agreeing objectives and deadlines, monitoring training and assessment outcomes and achievement.
• Carry out employer health and safety risk assessment reviews, where necessary.
• Maintain an electronic diary of sessions and visits to the learners in their workplaces, ensuring visits and interactions are planned in advance, adhering to the lone working policy.
• Maintain accurate records for all apprentices and employers in electronic systems, ensuring that all interactions are documented in a timely manner.

Trainer/Assessor – Community Health and Wellbeing

Trainer Assessor – Residential Childcare

• To drive the growth and success of Acorn Training’s contracts in your allocated region.
• Building and maintaining strategic partnerships with new and existing employers.
• Serving as a representative at key forums.
• Effectively managing new business opportunities.
• Fostering local connections to secure support which ensures the sustained growth, achievement, and profitability of the designated contracts.

Business Development Manager – Early Years

Trainee Trainer Assessor, Residential Childcare

Coach

• Manage a caseload of Restart participants across a defined region, supporting progression into sustained employment outcomes in line with contract requirements
• Deliver high-quality, personalised Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG), adapting delivery across multiple sites to meet participant and service needs
• Provide targeted and timely support to Rapid Response participants, ensuring immediate engagement and accelerated job outcomes
• Travel across delivery sites to provide cover for staff absence and annual leave, maintaining continuity and consistency of service provision
• Tailor employability interventions, job search activity, and CV development to meet individual participant needs and labour market demand
• Proactively engage with local and regional employers to identify job opportunities and support participants into suitable vacancies
• Develop and maintain strong knowledge of local and regional labour market trends to inform participant progression strategies
• Identify and address individual barriers to employment, including effective signposting to specialist and external support services
• Support participants to access training, skills provision and qualifications that enhance employability and meet job requirements
• Apply coaching techniques to build participant motivation, resilience and positive work-related behaviours
• Meet and exceed key performance indicators, including job outcomes, engagement levels and compliance measures in line with Restart expectations
• Maintain accurate, timely and compliant records using relevant systems, ensuring all activity meets DWP and organisational audit standards
• Regularly review participant progress, setting and updating SMART action plans to drive outcomes
• Support a diverse participant group, including individuals with complex and multiple barriers to employment
• Identify and respond to basic skills needs (literacy, numeracy and digital), promoting independence and progression
• Ensure full compliance with safeguarding policies for Adults at Risk and other vulnerable groups
• Adhere to data protection, GDPR and information security requirements at all times
• Represent the organisation professionally across all delivery sites and with external stakeholders
• Contribute to continuous improvement, quality assurance and best practice sharing across the region
• Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of delivery
• Work in accordance with Health and Safety policies, including safe lone working and regional travel
• Undertake any additional duties consistent with the flexible, regional nature of the role

Regional Employment Coach

Trainer Assessor, Business Skills – Digital

• To drive the growth and success of Acorn Training’s contracts in your allocated region.
• Building and maintaining strategic partnerships with new and existing employers.
• Serving as a representative at key forums, effectively managing new business opportunities.
• Fostering local connections to secure support which ensures the sustained growth, achievement, and profitability of the designated contracts.

Business Development Manager – Business and Professional Skills

Business Development Manager – Youth Community and Wellbeing

• Drive the growth and success of Acorn Training’s contracts in your allocated region.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with new and existing employers.
• Serve as a representative at key forums.
• Effectively manage new business opportunities.
• Foster local connections to secure support which ensures the sustained growth, achievement, and profitability of the designated contracts.
• Actively promote Acorn Training's services and training programmes effectively.
• Collaborate with the marketing team to develop and execute effective marketing campaigns.
• Identify and develop productive and sustainable relationships with potential employers, partners, and wider stakeholders.
• Actively prospect to maintain a strong pipeline of potential and future learners, employers, and referral partners relevant to the contract requirements.
• Be responsible for your pipeline of opportunities, including lead generation, meetings, and closing sales against the contract to grow its value.
• Manage your pipeline of data effectively and efficiently to maximise conversion rates and continuously strive to enhance it.
• Keep your knowledge up to date in all sectors to provide personalised, passionate, and ethical information, advice and guidance to potential employers and customers at all given opportunities.
• Use CRM and other systems accurately and consistently to document your progress with your pipeline, demonstrations, and meetings for daily forecasting.
• Work with your team to ensure a smooth transition from sale through onboarding to delivery.
• Attend networking events and exhibitions in your region to become familiar with your target audience and their needs.
• Share knowledge and best practices with your colleagues and peers to enhance the experience of potential customers.
• Contribute positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the business, offering new suggestions and ideas wherever possible.
• Achieve the KPIs set on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Ensure consistently high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Achievement of Apprenticeship sales and revenue targets within the Business skills sector.
• Growth in employer, learner, and stakeholder Base.
• Achievement of specific contract requirements.
• Development of key partnerships.
• Market share increase across region.
• Positive brand image and recognition across region.
• Timely and accurate reporting.

Business Development Manager – Residential Childcare

• To drive the growth and success of Acorn Training’s contracts in your allocated region.
• Building and maintaining strategic partnerships with new and existing employers.
• Serving as a representative at key forums.
• Effectively managing new business opportunities.
• Fostering local connections to secure support which ensures the sustained growth, achievement, and profitability of the designated contracts.
• Actively promoting Acorn Training's services and training programmes effectively.
• Collaborating with the marketing team to develop and execute effective marketing campaigns.
• Identifying and developing productive and sustainable relationships with potential employers, partners, and wider stakeholders.
• Actively prospecting to maintain a strong pipeline of potential and future learners, employers, and referral partners relevant to the contract requirements.
• Being responsible for your pipeline of opportunities, including lead generation, meetings, and closing sales against the contract to grow its value.
• Managing your pipeline of data effectively and efficiently to maximise conversion rates and continuously striving to enhance it.
• Keeping your knowledge up to date in all sectors to provide personalised, passionate, and ethical information, advice and guidance to potential employers and customers at all given opportunities.
• Using CRM and other systems accurately and consistently to document your progress with your pipeline, demonstrations, and meetings for daily forecasting.
• Working with your team to ensure a smooth transition from sale through onboarding to delivery.
• Attending networking events and exhibitions in your region to become familiar with your target audience and their needs.
• Sharing knowledge and best practices with your colleagues and peers to enhance the experience of potential customers.
• Contributing positively to the effectiveness and efficiency of the business, offering new suggestions and ideas wherever possible.
• Achieving the KPIs set on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
• Ensuring consistently high levels of customer satisfaction and retention.

Senior Business Development Manager – Residential Childcare

Operations

• **Key Responsibilities**
• - Lead end-to-end contract management by implementing robust project management and review procedures across the Greater Manchester skills provision.
• - Collaborate with internal teams to ensure alignment of contract deliverables with commissioner expectations.
• - Actively engage with community groups, employers, and wider stakeholders to grow and develop the business within the curriculum-specific context.
• - Build effective and productive working relationships with commissioners' contract leads.
• - Build and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders, strategic and generic subcontractors/delivery partners, and other relevant organisations.
• - Create and maintain key contract planning, monitoring, and reporting documentation.
• - Facilitate regular contract reviews with key managers to assess performance, plan the approach to achieving future targets, and identify potential challenges and mitigating actions to ensure positive contract outcomes.
• - Provide weekly status reports regarding contract milestones, progress against key performance indicators (KPIs), programme interdependencies, risks, and issues.
• - Respond to commissioner requirements for contract progress reporting and assurance.
• - Work closely with the Head of Quality and Curriculum, actively participating in programme evaluation, stakeholder feedback, and lessons learned activities.
• - Drive the long-term financial performance and value for money of Greater Manchester skills programmes through effective operational and financial performance management.
• - Work closely with the Heads of Curriculum, Head of Quality and Curriculum, and Curriculum Innovations Manager to implement step-in measures as required, including contractual performance and quality improvement planning.
• - Provide feedback based on any evaluation results, quality and progress assessments, or individual responses to the Assistant Director for Skills and relevant Head of Curriculum to ensure that content not achieving intended learning objectives is addressed.
• - Work with the Skills Delivery team as part of a defined joined-up approach to ensure a close tie-up between CPD design and programme management, ensuring that a feedback loop exists.
• - Identify effective practice through data analysis and robust audit, sharing with the wider internal management teams and developing into business-as-usual practice.
• - Ensure that expertise across delivery areas is kept up to date through self-management and engagement with the relevant Head of Curriculum to gain access to the latest policy and research.
• **Key Performance Indicators**
• - Achievement of contractual quality and performance measures.
• - Collaboration and engagement with community organisations, referral partners and employers.
• - Customer retention and high levels of stakeholder satisfaction.
• - Budget and resource utilisation and efficiency.
• - Timely and accurate reporting on contract performance measures.
• - Accuracy and completeness of contract documentation and reporting.

Skills Contracts Operations Manager

• - Responsible for an agreed caseload of apprentices and employer-based learners, providing them with high-quality training, coaching, mentoring and assessment to achieve their apprenticeship standard, and/or associated qualifications, in a timely manner.
• - Ensure that assessment of learners’ starting points is used in planning and sequencing their training regarding knowledge, skills, behaviours, English and maths development.
• - Develop and agree individual training plans, in collaboration with employers, which provide support to learners to meet the content of, and effectively prepare them for, the final assessment/end point assessment.
• - Ensure that all learners and employers are provided with a comprehensive induction programme, confirming that employers know their roles and responsibilities in the collaborative relationship to support the progress of their learner.
• - Develop and implement effective training and learning strategies and activities, including resources to support learners in making progress towards successful completion of their learning programme.
• - Provide training, coaching and assessment ensuring training meets standards set by Acorn Training and Awarding Organisations (AO), including complying with the relevant AO and Acorn Training quality assurance processes and requirements in all assessment practice, and presenting learners’ work for quality assurance purposes when required.
• - Ensure that off-the-job training is effectively planned and tracked as part of the individual apprentices’ training plan and is robustly monitored.
• - Actively support and encourage the continuous development of learners’ English, maths, and digital skills.
• - Ensure all learners have access to pastoral support, including ensuring a good understanding of Safeguarding, Prevent, Radicalisation, Equality, Diversity and Fundamental British values.
• - Organise and plan assessment opportunities and regular review meetings with learners and their employer to set and review targets and progress, and ensure constructive feedback that is developmental, is documented and provided to enhance learners’ progress.
• - Provide information, advice and guidance to learners and employers throughout their programme, ensuring that all learners are aware of Guidance and Wellbeing available to them to support their progress.
• - Effectively manage timescales and be clear in setting and agreeing objectives and deadlines, monitoring training and assessment outcomes and achievement.
• - Carry out employer health and safety risk assessment reviews, where necessary.
• - Maintain an electronic diary of sessions and visits to the learners in their workplaces, ensuring visits and interactions are planned in advance, adhering to the lone working policy.
• - Maintain accurate records for all apprentices and employers in electronic systems, ensuring that all interactions are documented in a timely manner.