Risk Apprentice
AQA EDUCATION
MANCHESTER (M15 6EX)
Closes on Monday 5 January 2026
Posted on 17 October 2025
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Summary
Over this two-year programme, you’ll work with our Risk and Compliance teams, learning about governance, regulation, and risk management. You will also work towards achieving the Level 3 qualification: Compliance and Risk Officer.
- Wage
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£23,500 a year
- Training course
- Compliance and risk officer (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
Shifts to be confirmed
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 7 September 2026
- Duration
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2 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- As a Risk Apprentice, you’ll rotate through three core areas of the business - Risk Management, Compliance, and Assurance - gaining valuable insight into how we manage risk, uphold standards, and ensure quality across the organisation
- Risk Management - Produce business reports, conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses, and help draft policy documents and presentation materials. Build an understanding of risk management principles and support the implementation of AQA’s risk framework across the organisation
- Compliance - Learn how compliance operates within a regulated industry, assist with reviews of operational practices, and support regulatory reporting. Help manage the resolution of regulatory queries to ensure standards are met
- Assurance - Develop knowledge of internal controls, audit processes, and quality management. Support audit fieldwork and reporting, track audit actions, and contribute to organisation-wide quality initiatives
Where you'll work
DEVAS STREET
MANCHESTER
M15 6EX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
Training course
Compliance and risk officer (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Implement legal and regulatory framework requirements.
- Deliver risk and compliance services to stakeholders using organisational systems and processes.
- Plan and organise workloads to meet individual and team performance targets.
- Identify ways to reduce and mitigate incidents of non-compliance.
- Escalate compliance and risk issues where appropriate in line with organisational procedures.
- Manage records in order to meet audit requirements of the organisation.
- Produce evidence-based reports and management information for stakeholders considering visualisation techniques when presenting data.
- Select and use communication methods applicable to the audience and circumstances, for example, presentations, phone, face to face, email, virtual meetings.
- Communicate about products with customers, colleagues or stakeholders in different styles, for example visually, verbally, written, using e-comms.
- Build and maintain working relationships.
- Identify own training needs and seek feedback to improve performance and service delivered.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques when delivering improved compliance outcomes and mitigating risks.
- Record information electronically and make use of available technology, for example Management Information Systems (MIS), spreadsheets, presentation software, word processing, email, virtual communication.
- Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.
- Implement legal and regulatory framework requirements.
- Deliver risk and compliance services to stakeholders using organisational systems and processes.
- Plan and organise workloads to meet individual and team performance targets.
- Identify ways to reduce and mitigate incidents of non-compliance.
- Escalate compliance and risk issues where appropriate in line with organisational procedures.
- Manage records in order to meet audit requirements of the organisation.
- Produce evidence-based reports and management information for stakeholders considering visualisation techniques when presenting data.
- Select and use communication methods applicable to the audience and circumstances, for example, presentations, phone, face to face, email, virtual meetings.
- Communicate about products with customers, colleagues or stakeholders in different styles, for example visually, verbally, written, using e-comms.
- Build and maintain working relationships.
- Identify own training needs and seek feedback to improve performance and service delivered.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques when delivering improved compliance outcomes and mitigating risks.
- Record information electronically and make use of available technology, for example Management Information Systems (MIS), spreadsheets, presentation software, word processing, email, virtual communication.
- Handle data safely and securely and share information in compliance with data protection legislation and organisational policy.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4+ (A-C))
- Math (grade 4+ (A-C))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Non judgemental
About this employer
AQA is an independent charity that sets and marks over half of all GCSEs and A-levels in the UK every year. AQA's qualifications are internationally recognised and taught in more than 40 countries around the world.
After this apprenticeship
- Progress to a full time role
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPP PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000347234.
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Closes on Monday 5 January 2026
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