Skills and Employment Coach

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Blackburn
Salary
17.9% employer pension contribution
Posted
10 Jun 2022
Closes
08 Jul 2022
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Title: Skills and employment consultant

Location: Blackburn

Salary: GBP27,000 - GBP30,000

Hours: Full time, Monday - Friday

Our client is looking for someone who will support the management and delivery of a project they are delivering on behalf of Lancashire County Council. This is part of a GBP1,000,000 investment to support the aerospace, engineering and manufacturing sector, following the detrimental effects of the pandemic. The aim is to support and retain our highly skilled workforce within the industry and within Lancashire. They will be supporting businesses that may have staff at risk, supporting those individuals to retain their skills and helping additional businesses that are recruiting, tap into this valuable workforce.

Job duties:

* Liaising with funding bodies, delivery partners and all other stakeholders including our mentor team

* Engaging with businesses across Lancashire within the aerospace and AEM (Advanced Engineering Manufacturing) sectors

* Identifying businesses that are recruiting or those that have staff at risk, within the sector

* Understanding and undertaking initial diagnostics with businesses to understand their needs, challenging and future objectives, accurately completing relevant paperwork

* Proactively promoting the programme aims and encourage businesses recruiting, to retain the highly skilled workforce that we may have engaged with, creating introductions and placing them into alternative employment

* Supporting at risk individuals with the development of bespoke learning plans, ongoing mentoring, skills workshops; CV writing, mock interviews, and introductions to other opportunities and provisions

* Collecting and tracking all relevant data to feedback on the overall sector and skills within

* Cross referring where necessary to other support providers and gaining an understanding of the business support landscape within Lancashire

* Ensuring that all contractual requirements are being met from the funder

* Ensure that all documentation relating to a project is accurate, complete, current, and stored appropriately and to be available in formats as requested.

* Upload data and documents to the various CRM and funder software systems

* Help to identify new processes and efficient ways of working where relevant

The ideal candidate will have experience in:

* Arranging and participating in meetings, networking events, conferences and project team activities plus all marketing activities to raise awareness

* Working towards weekly and monthly targets to ensure that project targets and KPIs are being met

* Working alongside the Operations Director and team to support the successful delivery of the contract

* Using a CRM system

Additional benefits:

* 17.9% employer pension contribution

* Health and wellbeing package

* Annual team away break

* 25 days holiday plus stats

Unfortunately, due to the high volume of applications we receive for each vacancy, we are unable to respond to every candidate personally and so if you have not heard back from us within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful