Education Manager: New Recruit Pathways

Job Title: Education Manager: New Recruit Pathways

Salary: In excess of £52k (inclusive of location allowance).  Negotiable depending on skills and experience. 

Location: London, various sites

As an Education Manager at the Met Police, you’ll do something amazing: equip the next generation officers to keep the capital safe. New recruits face an ever-evolving challenge, as they strive to make a difference to communities and protect a vast and vibrant city. An inspirational leader, you’ll make sure we produce outstanding Met officers.

Our Centre for Initial Recruit Learning (CIRL) is based within the Met’s Professionalism Operational Command Unit. Here, you’ll oversee learning and development for thousands of newly recruited officers every year. It’s a role that will place you at the heart of CIRL, with a view of every curriculum and pathway, from Degree Apprenticeships and the Degree-Holder Entry Programme to a new Access and Gateway entry programme. Driven by your passion for L&D, you’ll see that we provide the best possible learning experience for London’s future officers.

To make sure recruits acquire the right skills at the right level, you’ll shape and deliver curricula, working with Course Leaders. It means liaising with a range of contacts including the College of Policing and training providers. You’ll also see that everything is underpinned by sound policies and processes, and expert Quality Assurance. It’s a busy, highly visible role – but you’ll thrive in the fast-paced environment.

An education professional with an FE, HE or other relevant training background, you’re used to leading teams and designing curricula. With experience at Assistant Principal-level, you can manage a wide range of provision in collaboration with training suppliers. Above all, you’re focused on solutions and setting high professional standards. With your heart 100% in your work, you lead by example.

Now more than ever is the time to join the Met Police. We want our team to be representative of our country and are looking to recruit people who understand and reflect the diverse communities we engage with every day.

Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself, a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension, you'll also benefit from excellent career and professional development. If you’re looking to progress, this is an outstanding opportunity.

Job Summary:

This role forms part of a team in Professionalism within the Centre for Initial Recruit Learning (CIRL), which facilitates the relationship with academic partners, manages the operational delivery and quality assurance processes of student police officer learning and oversees the delivery contracts and performance of all officers in their probation.

The post holder will apply specialist knowledge of Learning and Development (L&D) and an understanding of the higher education provision, academic regulatory requirements, apprenticeship delivery and policy context to the PEQF learning pathways, to ensure that student police officer learning evolves in line with the changing organisational requirements.

Leading a team of Course Leaders and specialist staff, the post holder will also oversee the management of a number of educational training programmes that lead into the PEQF pathways including the Met’s new Level 3 gateway programme.

Key Result Areas

• Management of the suite of educational pathways for new recruit police officers including evaluating outcomes, monitoring the quality of the education provision against agreed performance frameworks, developing improvement plans, ensuring appropriate quality assurance and reporting processes are completed and any changes are embedded through change controls as required.
• Ensure that professional standards, behaviours and consistent support processes (academic, operational and personal) are in place and managed across all programmes, including progression review meetings and employer line management arrangements of student police officers whilst at the HEI (Higher Education Institution) sites so that the Met complies with its customer obligations and responsibilities.
• Manage and engage with Met delivery partners/providers to facilitate effective delivery of the learning programmes and ensure that the academic regulations and apprenticeship requirements governing the programmes are aligned and harmonised with Met policies and police regulations in relation to eligibility, assessment, progression, protected learning time, misconduct, appeals and complaints.
• Chair and/or represent the Met, as appropriate, on a range of programme governance boards, committees and panels, including the recruitment eligibility panel and the CIRL’s Probationer Performance meetings.
• Understand the Met and its changing L&D requirements, evaluating whether the suite of educational pathways for student police officer learning meets organisational demands/requirements.
• Horizon scanning to understand the policy context and regulatory requirements of the bodies involved in new recruit police officer L&D (College of Policing [CoP], Quality Assurance Agency [QAA], Institute of Apprenticeships [IoA], Education Skills Funding Agency [ESFA]), creating and maintaining external networks across these bodies and developing strategies to manage any necessary response and implications of external policy and regulatory requirements.
• Raising learning outcomes and enhancing recruit police officer experience through partnership working and quality assurance mechanisms. In particular, providing support and guidance with partners around addressing any awarding gap.
• Apply subject matter expertise of andragogical learning and teaching methodologies, curriculum and learning solutions design, assessment and accreditation to all new police officer learning programmes, ensuring internal and national L&D requirements are met and that police officer learning evolves in line with the Met learning transformation vision, policy requirements, external insights and latest research on learning design.

Communications and Working Relationships

The post holder must have excellent communication skills and have ability to build and maintain

good working relationships with the following groups:

• Internal to the Met
  • Reports to the Head of Initial Recruit Learning on strategic L&D and policy matters in relation to recruit policer officer L&D, quality assurance and overview of Professional Standards.
  • Regular face-to-face contact with direct reports including Initial Education Coordinator, Course Leaders and Quality Assurance Manager.
  • Regular face-to-face meetings with the Commercial Contract Manager to ensure any changes are in line with any contractual requirements.
  • Regular face-to-face meetings with the Chief Inspector for HEIs to ensure professional standards are prioritised within universities and across internal training pathways.
  • Regular face-to-face meetings with CIRL stakeholders within the Met to provide briefings on key topics/milestones, answer questions and capture feedback.
  • On an annual basis, work with the Head of Initial Recruit Learning, BCU (Basic Command Unit) L&D Leads and the delivery partner to ensure that the learning curriculum is adapted in
  • line with changing Met needs.
• External to the Met
  • Liaise with and work in collaboration with the Met’s Educational Partners, Babcock International together with counterparts from the academic partner’s organisation to agree continuous improvements and ensure agreed programme governance is adhered to.
  • Engage with MOPAC (Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime) and the College of Policing to ensure that the Met complies with all legislated National Educational standards and annual monitoring requirements.
  • Create and maintain external networks across the regulatory bodies involved in student police officer L&D (CoP, QAA, IoA, ESFA).

Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:

https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 13th December 2022.

We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

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