Training Manager

WorldSkills UK is an independent charity and partnership between employers, education and governments. Together, we are using international best practice to raise standards in apprenticeships and technical education so more young people and employers can succeed.

The Training Manager role plays an important part in supporting WorldSkills UK to deliver the following objectives:

1. mainstreaming global best practice across the UK to raise standards of further and higher technical education and informing qualification development
2. improving the UK’s top ten position and a top 5 performance in digital skills in international competitions
3. developing groups of students and apprentices to perform at the highest level in each skills competition with 75% of competitors achieving a Medallion for Excellence or medal.

The role of the WorldSkills UK Training Manager is to influence and lead the development of the highest possible standards of training and skills development; to meet global standards of technical excellence of students and apprentices preparing to represent the UK on a global platform at the ‘skills olympics’. The Training Manager is additionally responsible for collating the valuable lessons drawn from benchmarking the UK’s performance with our international network, and to mainstream this international best practice into the day-to-day training in the UK, to enable young people, employers and the economy to thrive.

Applicants need to demonstrate relevant and current industry knowledge and experience in further and / or higher technical education; who have the capacity to build and draw on a wider training team to lead and deliver high quality training to accelerate the occupational expertise of students and apprentices in the following specialisms:

• Autobody repair