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Job title: Training Manager
Organisation: Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA)
Location: Hybrid. Primarily remote with one weekly hub day in London. Working arrangements may change.
Deadline: 9am, Monday 21st September.
Salary: £33,000-£35,000 with scope to offer a higher salary depending on experience.
Hours: Full time; 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.
About the role:
ILPA is a charity and professional membership body working to improve immigration, asylum and nationality law. Our training programme is a core part of our work and one of our largest income streams. We deliver over 60 courses and conferences a year to an average of 2,000 practitioners across the UK, supporting lawyers, caseworkers, advisers and organisations working with migrants.
The Training Manager will not directly teach any training content but will run this programme end to end, ensuring all trainings and events are delivered professionally, to a high standard. This is a hands-on role that requires strong organisational skills, confidence with digital platforms and the ability to work with experienced external tutors. The post holder will shape the training calendar with support from the Training Advisory Board and maintain ILPA’s reputation for high-quality, practitioner-led training.
Key Responsibilities
Programme planning and development
• Build and manage the annual and quarterly training schedule with a balance of advanced, intermediate and introductory courses across immigration, asylum and nationality law
• Facilitate and support the Training Advisory Board to identify priorities and emerging issues
• Respond to changes in immigration law with short notice trainings where appropriate
Tutor and content management
• Contact, contract and manage ILPA’s panel of external tutors
• Work closely with tutors on the overall planning and delivery, providing admin support in the production of accurate, up-to-date course materials
• Maintain and update appropriate guidance for tutors and conference chairs
Event delivery
• Set up all events on Eventbrite, including pricing, discounts, communications and refunds
• Host online events and support hybrid delivery of trainings and conferences when required, troubleshooting technical issues on the day
Income, reporting and evaluation
• Monitor and report on key data including bookings, attendance, costs and income
• Optimise participant feedback rates, monitor satisfaction and take action where needed
• Monitor trends and use data analysis to inform future programme planning
• Review pricing strategy and initiatives to inform recommendations
Marketing and engagement
• Market events, including through ILPA’s weekly all-member update, targeted email updates to relevant working groups, selected social media and other communication channels to reach beyond our membership
• Respond to participant queries and ensure excellent customer experience
Systems and administration
• Maintain accurate records, contracts, schedules and evaluation data
• Ensure compliance with GDPR and internal policies
• Make appropriate use of systems including Eventbrite and Salesforce to manage and analyse programme efficacy
Person Specification
Essential
• Experience managing training or professional development programmes
• Ability to think strategically and develop the training programme in response to feedback and changes in immigration policy.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to hold relationships with a range of stakeholders including senior practitioners, tutors, venues and ILPA members.
•Experience in event planning and in commissioning a variety of supporting services and vendors.
• Experience in event delivery and the ability to manage a small team to support delivery of an in-person event or conference.
• Strong digital and numerical skills including ticket management, online event, CRM platforms as well as Excel.
• Ability and confidence to host or facilitate online trainings and events
• Ability to work independently in a small charity team
• Strong organisational skills and confidence managing a busy scheduleand ability to resolve issues efficiently despite competing deadlines.
Desirable
• Knowledge of immigration, asylum or nationality law
• Experience in a charity, membership body or legal-sector environment
• Experience commissioning or managing external tutors or contributors
• Experience of using Salesforce, Eventbrite, Quickbooks, MS Teams, Zoom
How to Apply
To apply, please complete the following forms and submit them as per the instructions on our website (linked).
- ILPA Application Form
- ILPA Equalities Monitoring Form
Applications from individuals only – no agencies. Please do not use artificial intelligence in completing your application form.
Please submit a completed ILPA application form and equalities monitoring form as a Word document or in another editable format. If an application is not submitted in this format, it will not be considered.
If you need the forms in an alternative format or require adjustments, contact recruitment. The email address can be found on our wesbite (linked).
Deadline: 9am, Monday 21st September.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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The role of a Therapeutic Community Caseworker at the Baobab Centre is to support unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee adolescents and young adults to access care, basic rights and entitlements and to support their social development and rehabilitation.This role involves working closely with the clinical key worker of each young person and with our wider multidisciplinary team. As a Caseworker you will aim to empower individuals to build stable, independent lives in the UK, including by supporting them to communicate their views, needs and experiences in decision-making processes, and supporting them to make challenges when necessary. Caseworkers assist young people to make effective choices about what happens in their lives and encourage them to speak up and build agency.
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It is critical that as a Caseworker:
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you have an insight to the backgrounds and experiences of both the internal and external factors impacting on the lives of unaccompanied young people attending our centre and an understanding of the broader context in our society as it impacts on young asylum seekers (including invisibility, marginalisation, discrimination and the fact of waiting in uncertainty for a long time.
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You have an insight in how trauma and the many human rights violations and persecution that most members of our community have experienced impact on all aspects of a young person’s internal and external world.
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You have an insight in how current immigration rules and social care system procedures act as barriers to rehabilitation, including by restricting access to education, adequate benefits, housing and healthcare provision.
Please read the attached full job description and the Context document before submitting your Cover Letter and CV.
1st stage interviews (in person only) will take place at the Baobab Centre: Thursday 8 October
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