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Administration Manager for Education, Skills and Work
The Role
Key Highlights:
* Be among the first to join the HMP Millsike team as we launch the brand-new prison estate in Spring 2025.
* Help reduce reoffending rates by supporting transformative education and skill development programmes.
* Manage a team of administrators, oversee crucial functions like data management, attendance tracking, and exam coordination, and work closely with education and vocational teams to support smooth service delivery.
About the Role:
As Admin Manager for Education, Skills & Work, you’ll play a vital role in setting up and managing efficient administrative operations to support educational and vocational programmes within HMP Millsike. This role involves leading a team, managing data and reporting, coordinating prisoner allocations, and overseeing exam administration, all crucial for creating a rehabilitative and supportive learning environment. You’ll also collaborate across departments to ensure our programmes are robust, efficient, and effective in fostering skill development.
Your Key Responsibilities:
* Team Leadership: Manage a team of education and industrial administrators, allocating tasks and providing guidance to maintain operational efficiency.
* Data & Attendance Tracking: Maintain accurate records in Curious, Nexus, and Digital Prison Service systems, track attendance, and monitor learner progress.
* Exam & Payroll Oversight: Coordinate exams, input results, and ensure accurate attendance tracking and payments for participants.
* Compliance & Improvement: Implement process improvements for better efficiency and prepare regular reports on programme performance.
* Collaboration: Work with Education Managers, vocational trainers, and other prison departments, enhancing service cohesion and communication with external partners.
Requirements:
* Essential: Level 3 qualification in Business Administration (or equivalent experience), Level 2 qualifications in English, Maths, and ICT.
* Experience: Proven management experience, ideally with a background in resource management and vocational or exam administration.
* Skills: Strong organisational, leadership, and data management skills, with a focus on accuracy and process improvement.
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Who We Are
Here at People Plus, we make a positive difference to people’s lives – every single day.
As part of The Staffline Group, we use our experience to support hundreds of thousands of people each year.
Our committed teams work across Britain to deliver a range of public services, including employment support, skills training, independent living, prison education, starting a business, and support to help employers grow.
To put it simply, we:
* Support people to find and keep jobs
* Help people to set up their own businesses
* Deliver skills training to further people’s careers
* Work with employers to build a skilled and happy workforce
* Rehabilitate people with convictions
* Tackle the root causes of offending
* Help people to live independently
* Support carers
We are extremely proud to be a Silver accredited Investors in People organisation. This means that at PeoplePlus, the right principles are in place but more than that, it means our people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in the organisation can feel the effects.
Our Benefits
A paid PeoplePlus Life Event Day each year
25 days annual leave
Cycle to Work scheme
Access to hundreds of discounts via the Additions portal
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to online wellbeing centre
Enhanced Wedding leave
A paid volunteering day each year
Enhanced Maternity scheme
Sharesave scheme
Refer a Friend reward scheme
Holiday purchase scheme
Pension scheme
Life assurance