Business Development Administrator, Leeds

Job Title: Business Development Administrator Salary: Commencing at 27,632 with progression to 29,255 per annumClosing Date: About the Role

TheBusiness Development Administrator will provide comprehensive administrative support to the Apprenticeship and Business Development teams, ensuring the smooth onboarding and enrolment of apprentices. The role will play a pivotal part in coordinating learner registrations, maintaining compliance documentation, supporting employer engagement activities, and ensuring an excellent customer experience for learners and employers throughout the enrolment journey.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and compliance with apprenticeship funding requirements.

What You Will Do

1. Coordinate and manage the end-to-end administration of apprentice enrolments.
2. Prepare, process, and check all enrolment documentation to ensure accuracy and compliance.
3. Generate apprenticeship agreements, training plans, and supporting documentation.
4. Maintain learner records within the organisation's CRM, MIS, and apprenticeship systems.
5. Monitor enrolment progress and proactively follow up with employers and learners to obtain required information.
6. Ensure all learner documentation is completed and stored in line with funding and compliance requirements.
7. Schedule onboarding meetings, inductions, and enrolment appointments.

About You

• Excellent organisational and planning skills.
• Strong administration and data management capability.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Professional and customer-focused approach.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
• Effective stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work accurately under pressure and meet deadlines.

Benefits

The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:

Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays

Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
Peoples Pension Scheme

CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.

Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).

Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.

Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to peoples lives through genuinely transformative education and training.We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions-Finance, Human Resources, ITSS,Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estatesand Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and youll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.SAFEGUARDING At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. Its not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyones contributions and perspectives.RECRUITMENT AGENCIES We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward anyunsolicited CVsin relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.

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