Employer & Partnership Coordinator

Job title:

Employer & Partnership Coordinator

Company

The Growth Company

Job description

The Growth Company’s (GC) Employment team have an exciting new opportunity for an Employer Engagement Consultant to provide a quality bespoke recruitment service to participants on the Supported Employment Service which will also include working with employers for work experience opportunities. Supported Employment works with participants that have learning difficulties and/or autism that would like to enter work. You will be working with key partners and employers in the city to ensure good quality opportunities that are sustainable and meet the participants needs.We help to make a lasting difference to the lives of people throughout the North of England and beyond, by supporting individuals to gain meaningful employment.Our highly skilled advisers and keyworkers work with a range of individuals; from people who have found themselves recently out of work, to those with complex barriers such as physical disabilities, mental ill-health and debt.This role is remote with 1 or 2 days within the community so use of own transport would be an advantage.Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement a range of activity which produces leads and creates the opportunity to sell products and services to employers.
• Undertaking a consultative approach with employers to identify their recruitment and workforce development needs aligned to GC Employments business objectives for current and future contracts. In addition, where appropriate upselling cross services from The Growth Company product range, to maximise income through the sale of multiple Group services which will be on benefit to the business worked with.
• Effectively account manager employers by maintaining and develop relationships, providing excellent levels of service, regular review, ensuring that repeat business is generated, and where appropriate that new services from the Group’s product range are taken up.
• Fully understand the caseload requirements of the Supported Employment Service participants and on current and future contracts and source suitable vacancies by conducting direct employer sales and customer reverse marketing sales activity.
• Meet customers regularly to ensure a good knowledge of the customer base and vacancies needed to support their progression into employment to meet the objectives of contracts worked on.
• Advertise surplus vacancies internally (and externally where appropriate) in a clear and concise manner, providing all the information required enabling operational staff to identify suitable candidates for vacancies.
• Arrange interviews with employers and clearly communicate the interview details with both the customer and the customers operational advisors.
• Conduct employer in work support contact regularly to ensure sustainment and provide support for the employer – this could include providing information on access to work funding or accessing training for staff.

About you:

• A warm, approachable style to delivery is required in order to build relationships and rapport.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate with voluntary, charitable and private organisations to optimize placements as well as managing expectations and dealing with complaints or issues.
• Networking and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Ability to work to challenging targets and KPIs.
• Well-developed IT skills, including an understanding of computerised management.
• Knowledge of recruitment and training services.
• Good knowledge of welfare to work and the customer base.

Skills Required:

• Must have previous sales experience.
• Experience of working with people that have disabilities.
• Excellent knowledge of the local labour market, methods of recruitment and growth industries.
• Ideally experience of securing vacancies and subsequently securing job starts.
• Recent experience of working to challenging targets within a sales environment.
• Flexible approach to work including willingness to travel and working occasional unsociable hours.
• information systems, spreadsheets, diary management, and e-mail.
• Ability to make contact with decision makers, identifying business opportunities and closing contracts.

LocationSalfordBusiness Area Logoemployment.jpgCompany LogoWork Company (ESF)CompanyEmploymentContract typePermanent/ Full- timeSalaryUp to £25,995 per annumAdvert Brandemployment.jpgClosing Date23/07/2024Ref No4174Documents(Word, 42.07kb)We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at or call us on 0161 237 4447.All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

Expected salary

£25995 per year

Location

Salford

Job date

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 03:22:49 GMT

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