Job: Partnership and Quality Lead Careers Education, Learningand Development
Salary: £44,075 - £48,226
Hours: Full time - 36.25 hours
Contract: Permanent
Location: Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Tootal Building, 54 Oxford Road, Manchester (with a hybrid approach to working location).
Advert closing date: Sunday 28th June
Yourrole:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the GM Careers Hub, Youth, Employment and Opportunities Team, in the Education Work and Skills Directorate at a pivotal time in our devolution journey.
Our team of Partnership and Quality Leads (PQLs) play a central role in shaping the future of careers education across Greater Manchester through dynamic collaboration, building strong effective relationships between education, employers, providers, local authorities and other system partners. Together, creating the conditions for all our children and young people to have the opportunity to thrive, with a clear line of sight towards progression pathways and good jobs in our growing economy.
We are recruiting a Partnership and Quality Lead (PQL) to bring a specialist focus to the team, leading on creating and embedding a system-wide Learning and Development (L&D) Framework for practitioners and partners across the Greater Manchester Careers Community of Practice.
This role is system-facing, working with and supporting education, employer, careers and partner organisations to strengthen the delivery of high-quality, inclusive careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) for all young people.
In this role, you’ll lead the design, cocreation and implementation of a high-quality L&D Framework that strengthens practice across the GM careers education system whilst having the ability to work in an agile way with clusters of education providers and employers, responding to emerging strategic priorities and operational needs. This is a system facing framework, with generating opportunities for practitioners and partner, rather than a framework that delivers directly to young people.
A key part of the role is championing organisational development: enhancing communication, supporting collaboration and ensuring our careers education community works seamlessly together to help young people thrive. You will accelerate innovation, deliver progress at pace and ensure the framework strengthens practice, drives consistency and captures and embeds excellence across the system.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong L&D expertise, a passion for organisational development and a passion to improving outcomes for young people to join the team!
This role directly supports the Greater Manchester Strategy, supporting the Mayor’s ambitions to transform technical education through the Greater Manchester Baccalaureate ensuring young people leave education with a clear line of sight to future pathways and jobs, equipped to succeed in the labour market.
KeyResponsibilities:
Lead the design and implementation of a structured framework that captures and shares learning, delivers impactful professional development activity, strengthens knowledge exchange, and drive system-wide innovation.
Embed robust evaluation processes to inform continuous improvement across the careers education system, through the L&D framework
Support the advancement of the strategic Community of Practice forums to drive consistent, high-quality and impactful CEIAG across Greater Manchester
Use data and insight to inform place-based prioritisation and continuous improvement
Build and quality assure partnerships between education, employers, and wider system partners
Embed youth voice and influence
Align CEIAG provision with Greater Manchester’s priority gateway sectors, translating labour market information (LMI) into clear, accessible insights that support informed decisionmaking
Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)embedding inclusive practices across the Community of Practice
Monitor and analyse performance and impact, using tools such as the Gatsby Benchmarks and the Careers Impact System, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
About you:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, tenacious and motivated Partnership and Quality Lead who can work at pace to develop a cohesive learning and development framework, and who can operate flexibly and agilely in the PQL role to meet the emerging strategic priorities and operational needs of the GM Community of Practice.
Bringa dynamic approach to partnership development, stakeholder engagement, and system learning
Are passionate about improving outcomes for young people
Understandimpactful, accessible learning and development, with the ability to design, deliver or influence professional development that strengthens practice across the system
Haveexceptional organisational and project management skills, with the ability to support innovation and improvement across complex systems, balancing diverse stakeholder priorities and perspectives
Can analyse data to contribute to strategic planning, target priorities and drive equity
Are confident in facilitating collaboration and communicating with senior stakeholder
Arecommitted toequality, diversity, and inclusion, embedding inclusive practices and amplifying underrepresented voices and youth centred design
Understand the challenges and opportunities in careers education across education phases and can translate system learning into consistently high-quality and embedded practice
Additional Information:
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) and will require an Enhanced DBS check. You will be expected to uphold GMCA’s values and behaviours, maintain confidentiality, and contribute to inclusive and sustainable service delivery.
