Job Title: Work Experience Coordinator
Location: Hulme, Manchester
Salary: Remuneration SFCA Support Staff pay spine points 10-12 FTE depending on experience (actual £19,988.13 to £21,314.00 per annum). This post is a term-time only position.
Job Type: Permanent, Term time only
Purpose:
Liaise with external bodies, relevant staff in College and parents/carers ensuring that the College secures appropriate work experience placement opportunities for its students and learners receive a high quality of work experience provision. Co-ordinate employer engagement and employability related activities across the College including the work experience offer.
Context:
The College is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well organised individual to work alongside existing staff to support and monitor work placement opportunities across a range of vocational subjects.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work Experience Placement Coordination
- To ensure that learners are offered appropriate opportunities to undertake work experience placements
- To find suitable placements for Level 2 and 3 vocational learners, with a view to meeting course requirements and matching each learner’s needs, career aspirations and interests to an appropriate placement. This will include working with academic and support staff across the College to understand the needs of learners
- To develop a comprehensive database of employer contacts and assist with marketing efforts to attract new employer links to maintain a wide, up to date, knowledge of employer engagement across all sectors
- To seek to develop work placement / experience opportunities for all learners on mainstream courses with a view to expanding work placement / experience provision and potentially manage staff to assist
- To initiate new links with local employers to identify, establish and develop a network of employers to provide appropriate work placements through developing good working relationships and ensure that they conform to all College policies, legal, health and safety and other statutory requirements
- To support the administration of DBS checks for students
- To ensure all paperwork related to short- and long-term work experience placements including the checking of employer liability insurance is routinely completed
- To update learner records relating to work experience on departmental documents, myLoreto and unifrog
- To ensure all health and safety regulations including risk and impact assessments are met with regard to learners and their work experiences(s). This includes checking liability insurance cover of employers.
- To organise, co-ordinate and assist with staff visits to placements.
- To collate and analyse employer feedback forms.
- To identify and arrange for employers to give specialist talks to learners at the College.
- To undertake visits to learners on placement.
- Assist the Assistant Principal: Curriculum and Careers Manager in evaluating the success of work experience across the College.
- To act as a coordinator and point of contact for work experience arrangements.
- To provide a range of general administrative activities including: answering and making telephone calls, booking meeting rooms, writing minutes, assisting and producing where applicable, mail merge letters, PowerPoint presentations and inputting data and spreadsheet tasks.
About you:
Experience and Qualifications:
- Experience in an administrative role
- Educated to degree level or equivalent, or substantial relevant experience that demonstrates a high order of literacy, numeracy and analytical skills
Skills and Knowledge:
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (e.g. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, Outlook)
- Ability to prioritise and multitask, managing own workload, meeting deadlines
- Experience of providing wellbeing support for students
- The ability to recognise and appreciate the confidential nature of some work undertaken, and appropriate liaise and pass on information promptly and accurately to relevant staff
- Ability to empathise with 16-19-year olds within a college situation High level of literacy/numeracy/communication/listening skills
- Evidence of commitment to Continuous Professional Development
- Ability to work with and motivate students, and work with other staff as a team
- Excellent organisational and administrative skills
- Evidence of commitment to Continuous Professional Development
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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Student Services Supervisor, Team Leader, Customer Service Coordinator, Customer Support Lead, Front of House Supervisor, Student Work Experience and Work Experience may also be considered for this role.
