Data Mentor. Job in Bristol Education & Training Jobs

Cambridge Spark; Bristol; Remote; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Department: Delivery

Location: Home based, UK (with occasional travel to our London office)

Reports to: Head of Delivery

Hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: Depending on experience

PLEASE NOTE: This job advert is currently helping us grow our talent pool. All our Data Mentor roles have been filled but these roles keep coming up and therefore we keep looking for great talent to join us when the time is right.

Additionally, due to holidays, applications will be reviewed, and responses will be sent from the week commencing 21st April. We appreciate your patience and look forward to reviewing your application soon.

Role Overview

This role is responsible for providing technical support and feedback to the Apprentices. The Data Mentor will ensure that teaching, learning and assessment is of a gold standard and that retention, achievement and grading outcomes are at or above national standards and learner progression is robustly monitored.

Key responsibilities:

• Support with eligibility professional discussions
• Formative and summative assessments against the Knowledge, skills and behaviours of the Apprenticeship Standard
• Support learners with developing and producing high quality portfolio of projects
• Support learners to prepare for the Apprenticeship End Point Assessment
• Provide Ad-hoc technical support and check-in sessions
• Attend weekly and ad-hoc 1:1 and group mentoring sessions
• Support with Line manager input and the final employer reference
• Prepare the learner to enter into Gateway
• Provide regular feedback and updates on learner progress to the Learner Success Team
• Support the Faculty team with content development and learner support tickets
• Provide general advice, guidance to all learners
• Act as a support point of contact for learners with portfolio queries
• To safeguard children and vulnerable adults from harm and to report concerns in accordance with the Cambridge Spark process
• To develop good relationships and encourage equality of opportunity between different groups and eliminate discrimination, harassment and victimisation
• Attend the regular team meetings and provide updates as requested on learner progress
• To support with any ad-hoc duties or requests that may be reasonably required to successfully carry out the role or to support the business
  
  

Candidate Specification:

Essential

• Relevant Technical Qualifications
• Relevant industry experience
• Experience of prioritising workload, working to strict deadlines and following governing procedures and controls
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Conscientious with excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Experience in a role of a similar nature within formal teaching or Apprenticeships
  
  

Interview process:

• One way video interview (alternative options are available for candidates who require reasonable adjustments to the process - for example live video screening via Google Meets)
• Take home technical task
• Competency based questions- 1 hour
• Ways of Working/Meet the Team - 45 minutes
  
  

Company Benefits:

• Remote first company providing flexibility to work from home
• Pension with up to 5% matched contributions
• 25 days holiday + Flexi bank holidays + 1 day off on your birthday
• A day for volunteering
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Health & Wellbeing allowance of up to £30 per month
• Annual Summer and Xmas events
• Company socials including everything from Cambridge College formals, pub nights to team building events
• CPD Allowance alongside quarterly reflections to ring fence time for development and growth
• Private medical insurance and cash plan
• Holiday buy back scheme (up to 10 days p/a)
• EAP with 24 hour confidential support line
  
  

Background to the Organisation

We are an education technology company that enables corporate and government organisations to achieve their business goals by educating their workforce with critical digital transformation skills to succeed in the AI era.

We deliver unique and innovative professional education that is accelerating the digital transformation of our clients, advancing the careers of their employees, helping people get into work and closing the digital skills gap. We are in a sector that is crucial to the economy and workforce, with a lot of opportunity for change and innovation. We are at the cutting edge of teaching applied data and digital skills, with our unique patented learning platform EDUKATE.AI offering our clients and learners a unique learning experience. EDUKATE.AI was developed with support from Innovate UK and provides all of our learners with 24/7 immediate feedback on their work, helping accelerate the learning process and providing a sandbox environment to experiment on real world datasets.

Since 2016, we have supported more than 15,000 learners across four continents with nearly 550,000 pieces of code submitted for feedback on EDUKATE.AI. We are trusted by some of the most recognisable brands in the world to educate their workforce, including Microsoft, the NHS, GSK, easyJet, the BBC and John Lewis. Our focus on applied learning to create business impact sets us apart - individual learners have reported applying their skills at work to generate recorded value of up to £40m.

Values

At the centre of the way we work together and inspire each other to achieve success are these core values:

Entrepreneurial

We take initiative and show entrepreneurial spirit which fuels innovation at Cambridge Spark. This includes identifying opportunities for improvement, taking ownership for implementing solutions effectively and driving improvement by using proof of concepts to demonstrate the feasibility and value of their work.

Team Spirit

Everyone is part of building an open and transparent culture, communicating effectively to raise issues, discuss improvements and share the evidence used to make decisions.

Customer-focused

Our customers are at the centre of everything we do, inspiring us to create great work. We strive to build friendly, professional and lasting relationships with them to better understand and anticipate their needs.

Gold Standard

We are experts in our field and are constantly developing our technology and offering. We set the benchmark in our industry: both in what we offer customers and in how we deliver it.