Curriculum Writer – Apprenticeship Product Manager

Role Overview

• Design & development of products across our product portfolio of apprenticeships, Skills Bootcamps, HIT courses (6-16 week training courses including digital and face to face content), Study Solutions (digital Professional Qualification revision packs) and CPD courses
• Maintaining and improving our product portfolio, through analysis of competitor activity & government / regulator policy changes at applicable points in a product’s lifecycle
• Taking ownership of your product caseload, tracking and monitoring their performance and lifecycle stage.
• You will work closely with colleagues across the organisation to maximise product performance and resolve any performance concerns identified as early as possible.
• Undertake regular assessments of your caseload products against the product checklist to ensure everything connected to the product, such as IfATE Standard changes, collateral, website, learning assets remain fully up to date.
• Manage and update the asset register for your caseload of products as required. Working with other Product Managers and the wider business to support the achievement of deadlines
• Working with the Instructional design Apprentice/learning designer to storyboard eLearning content
• Being an active member of apprenticeship trailblazer groups for all of your caseload products, and work with other relevant external key stakeholders/partners to ensure our products continue to be market leader.
• Creation of client product facing documents, marketing collateral and website content in line with Davies Group brand guidelines
• Creation of learning and development content utilising Canva, Adobe, Foxit and wrap around collateral such as digital pathway builds, digitising mock exams and writing quizzes across products when necessary
• Sharing best practice with others through standardisation meetings
• Delivering webinars and presentations on products to internal & external stakeholders
• Building engaging and digitally led learning pathways on our Learning Experience Platform and ePortfolio platform
• Promotion of our product portfolio through social media posts and campaigns
• Working with Subject Matter Experts to be able to provide guidance on the creation of learning content

Requirements

• Minimum **certification level of insurance (CII) *****or ***completed an apprenticeship in an Insurance or Financial services role
• Confident skills & demonstrable experience in **designing, writing & developing training programmes and content ***(digitally-led, advantageous)*
• Detailed knowledge of the financial services and the insurance sector training & development needs including ICA, CBI, PMI, LIBF, CIS, CILA and CII qualifications
• Training or certification in education, and/or training, advantageous
• Experience in educational product management. Knowledge of blended learning programmes, helpful
• Experience of creating engaging digitally-led resources
• Commercial awareness; experience in market research, competitor analysis, creating marketing collateral advantageous
• Experience in delivering training desirable
• Experience of using tools such as Articulate, Aptem and other LMS/LA tools, desirable
• Knowledge of Apprenticeship sector & funding / regulatory rules as well as the Education Inspection Framework (EIF), desirable
• Previous experience of managing awarding / professional body relationships, advantagous
• Experience of writing and acting upon Sector and programme level Self-Assessment Reports and Impact Reports, desirable

Benefits

Davies are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome candidates of all genders, gender identity and expression, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, nationality, and belief (or lack thereof).**** Join us and enjoy our ever-evolving benefits, including but not limited to:

• Reward platform – discounts for over 800 retailers
• 25 days holiday (rising with service)
• Well-being centre
• Recognition programme
• Paid fertility appointments
• Fostering friendly employer
• Pension
• matched contribution at 5%
• Life Assurance (4 x basic salary)
• Development, training, and professional qualification