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Careers

Kaplan exists to make a difference. To transform futures. To develop the talent of tomorrow. Together, we create success.

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Who we are

We are part of the Kaplan group, one of the world’s largest and most diverse education and assessment providers.

We are a leading provider of apprenticeships, accountancy, tax, banking and financial services, data and technology courses, and professional assessments. At Kaplan, we work together to make this organisation diverse, innovative, and efficient. We aim to become highly respected for supporting learners to build or assess their professional competence through apprenticeships and qualifications.

Why Kaplan?

Evolving

1000+ UK employees, and growing.

Diverse

Range of roles and specialisms.

Flexible

Home, office, and hybrid working.

What we offer

Making your money and holidays go further

We offer a range of benefits designed to help you make the most of your time, money, and personal development.

Benefits include:

  • Annual leave - 28 days plus bank holidays (pro-rata for part-time employees).
  • Annual leave purchase scheme - to boost your annual leave entitlement.
  • Season ticket loan - to spread the cost over the whole year.
  • Cycle scheme - tax efficient and enables you to spread the cost.
  • The Gift of Knowledge - big discounts on Kaplan courses for you and your family.
  • Staff discount scheme - discounts and cash back at your favourite high street stores and online.

Your health and peace of mind

We provide a number of benefits designed to support your physical health, financial security, and overall well-being.

Benefits include:

  • Discounted gym membership - lower corporate rates at over 2,000 gyms in the UK.
  • Private medical insurance - at the company's expense.
  • Salary sacrifice health screening - tax efficient option for an annual health screening.
  • Employee assistance - 24/7 confidential services providing counselling and referrals to support services.
  • Income protection insurance - covers 50% of lost earnings in the event of long term ill-health.

Providing for your family

We understand the importance of planning for the future and protecting the people who matter most. Our family-focused benefits are designed to give you financial security, flexibility, and reassurance, helping you provide for your loved ones with confidence.

Benefits include:

  • Company pension - up to 5% matched contribution.
  • Pay Schemes - Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental and Paternity/Partner pay schemes offering well in excess of the statutory levels.
  • Life assurance - a payment of 4 x basic salary to your nominated person/s.

What we look for

We are always looking for people who would like to join us and build their career at Kaplan. We have a vast range of roles and opportunities across our business and welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. People who are excellent at what they do, who believe in our values and have a passion for working with colleagues to create success together.

Frequently recruited roles

These are a few roles that we recruit for on a regular basis. If you'd like to see the full range of roles we currently have available, view our vacancies.

Tutor

Tutors provide an outstanding classroom and/or online experience to our learners, inspiring them to take what they learn and apply it in the workplace to boost their careers. They continuously build their skills and share knowledge with colleagues whilst helping to ensure that our delivery continually evolves and adapts.

Meet the Kaplan tutors

Location: Home-based, except when delivering classroom teaching or attending a team meeting.

Talent Coach

Talent Coaches provide excellent levels of support, advice, and guidance to our learners from apprenticeship induction, throughout the apprenticeship and finally in preparation for gateway and their End-Point Assessment. They ensure that apprentices’ knowledge, skills, and behaviours progress and develop throughout, allowing them to excel in their current job role and beyond.

Location: Home-based, except when attending a team conference.

Service Operations Advisor

Service Operations Advisors provide an efficient and friendly service for all queries from existing and prospective learners. They play a critical role in ensuring that issues and questions are resolved in an efficient and professional way, and that Kaplan continues to achieve high levels of student satisfaction.

Service Operations team

Location: Fully office based, Universal Square, Manchester.

Our beliefs

At Kaplan we are all working hard to make this organisation diverse, innovative and efficient - a great place to work where everyone can succeed. We live, breathe and celebrate our values - they drive what we believe in, how we behave and guide us in creating a culture of success.

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Act with integrity

Integrity is engrained in the way we work, and everything we do is consistent with our purpose and values. We build clarity around how we will create success - the Kaplan Way.

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Grow knowledge

Learning is in our DNA. Investing in knowledge of our ever changing customers, our market and our individual fields creates success for our learners - and for ourselves.

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Empower and support

We make sure everyone has the space and tools they need to work together and continuously improve how and what we deliver to our customers - directly or indirectly.

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Create opportunity

This is a place where people can become inspirational educators, grow into experts in our specialist fields and build leadership careers. Those who drive Kaplan’s success, find their success at Kaplan.

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Drive results together

Focusing on what matters most, we collaborate and partner with colleagues, setting targets and measuring progress to turn ambition into outcomes, which we all celebrate.

Kaplan UK Job Board

Whether it's a role in teaching, student support customer service, marketing or IT you're looking for, we hope that you'll consider Kaplan as your next employer.

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Setting you up for success

We have a comprehensive induction programme to welcome new joiners and help them quickly find their way around. Our aspiration is for them to be doing brilliantly, learning, moving forward and being successful. We also ask them what attracted them to Kaplan - here’s what they’ve said.

To be part of an organisation which empowers individuals to achieve and succeed in their various goals and endeavours.

Voke Irabor

Financial Controller

I have actually returned to Kaplan after 2.5 years away at the family business. I've always loved working at Kaplan and am so happy to be back.

Leanne Jones

Talent Coach

Kaplan's core value of empowering people as I wanted to work in a company that pushes you to achieve your goals.

Aliyah Sohawon

Operations Supervisor

Working for a company that cares about the people who work for them, ensuring they make a difference to every learner.

Carol Hughes

Talent Coach

A friend had told me about Kaplan and had been trying to get me to join and now I have I can see why. It's a very supportive culture.

Sam Bentley

Talent Coach

A well established organisation, an international name, known for quality.

Tammy Beresford

Talent Coach