KEVIN KIRBY
A&K Director and Head of Football Education
Qualifications
City and Guilds D32 and D33 Assessor Qualifications
Management Level 5 Leadership and Management
City and Guilds V1 Level 4 Award in Conducting Internal Quality Assurance of the Assessment Process
City and Guilds 7307 Further Education Teaching Certificate
A Bit About Me
A highly motivated, reliable, and confident Quality Performance Manager with exceptional multi-tasking ability and organisational skills.
He has an outstanding ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to maximise productivity as a foundation for success. He has vast experience and a proven track record for high performance and service quality in the educational and teaching Industry and places a huge focus on results-based management.
Beyond this, Kevin has a further background in curriculum development leading to a clear understand of learning from both a teacher and learner perspective, with a clear knowledge of
educational delivery methods and a forward thinking.
He has an innovative approach to engaging with learners. Kevin has an immaculate eye for detail and am also a clear thinker and an excellent communicator with a variety of transferable skills which he has showcased across previous roles.
Kevin’s professional experiences in vocational delivery management have given him a portfolio of skills and core strengths in motivating both staff and learners, communication and delivering a quality service are at the heart of what Kevin strives for.
Kevin understands the importance of quality teaching to receive outstanding inspections from internal and external bodies. Kevin is suited to fast paced, dynamic environments which require him to fully utilise and adapt, his expertise.
Kevin believes in trying to push others to be, progressive, present and use the knowledge and skills he has applied and developed within education or training where then support and help young people attend, enjoy, and achieve.
Work Experience
January 2023 - Present
February 2022 -2023
QUALITY ADVISOR AT METAGEDU APPRENTICESHIPS
As lead member of the quality team, I am providing reliable and robust quality assurance and supporting colleagues to implement quality improvements across Metagedu apprenticeships provision, and I am currently the lead for the upcoming Matrix Accreditation that is much more aligned to the current OFSTED inspections education providers are being inspected on.
QUALITY COACH KAPLAN INTERNATIONAL
As a member of the quality team I helped to ensure that a consistent and high-quality learner journey was provided to all our apprentices and that the credibility of qualifications and Standards is maintained. I directly support the development of Talent Coaches and also helped Kaplan to continuously improve what we deliver to our customers, and how they delivered it.
July 2021- 2022
LEAD IQA ON ALL APPRENTICESHIPS AT PHX TRAINING
My primary responsibility was to get trainers up to speed
on Apprenticeship delivery and improve the learner journey. I was to Monitor, support and co-ordinate the
work of the IQAs.