Enterprise Co-ordinator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Education Partnership

Description

Job role and purpose
The Enterprise Co-ordinator sits at the heart of a local cluster system intended to:

• Help schools and colleges to improve their careers and enterprise activities and to engage with the world of work.
• Make it easier for employers and the selfemployed to engage with schools and colleges.
• Focus everyone's efforts on programmes and activities that are most effective in motivating young people, supporting independent choice, and supporting positive outcomes for young people.

Enterprise Co-ordinator(s) will do this by recruiting local schools and colleges to join The Careers & Enterprise Company's programme and will then match each school and college with an Enterprise Adviser.

Enterprise Advisers are volunteers who have been drawn from local employers or the self-employed who will work with a school or college (matched 1:1) to support that school or college in developing an effective careers and enterprise strategy.

These Enterprise Advisers will have been recruited by the LEP Executive.

The Enterprise Co-ordinator will work with schools and colleges and their Enterprise Advisers to conduct an initial diagnostic of their careers and enterprise strategy and will support the Enterprise Adviser in further developing and optimising this strategy.

The Enterprise Co-ordinator will help ensure that the best local careers and enterprise provision is made available to schools and colleges in their area by acting as a core link to existing provision.

The Enterprise Co-ordinator will help also help stimulate more provision where necessary by working closely with the Enterprise Advisers, local employers, and with the central team at The Careers & Enterprise Company.

The role will involve regular contact with senior people across a wide range of partners including:

• Schools and colleges and employers/the self-employed
• Local, regional and national skills organisations and education/training providers
• Business representative organisations and third sector partners
• The Careers & Enterprise Company

Key responsibilities

• Build effective relationships with local schools and colleges. Understand their needs to ensure the programme has impact and address those needs. Engage them in the programme.
• Establish, equip and support a highprofile and highperforming Enterprise Adviser network matched to local schools and colleges:

a. Work with LEP leadership and local employers, the self-employed and employer groups to recruit and establish the Enterprise Adviser network;
b. Introduce and match those Enterprise Advisers to local schools and colleges;
c. Equip the Enterprise Advisers with the resources and contacts that they need to fulfil the role and help them make the best use of the opportunities available;
d. Ensure the experience is managed to a consistently high standard across the cluster.

• Understand the business and provider offers for schools and colleges in the area and make this knowledge available to Enterprise Advisers and schools and colleges.
• Stimulate even more activity from local employers and the selfemployed by engaging effectively and tenaciously with local employers and employer groups (e.g. Chambers, CBI, FSB, IoD)
• Harness energy, input and support from all senior employment and education leaders in the area, including:
• LEP chair, Chief Executive Officer, Employability and Skills Board;
• Educational leaders (head teachers, college principals, academy chains);
• Employers, the selfemployed and employer groups (e.g. Chambers, CBI, FSB, IoD); and
• Leading providers (e.g. NCS, BITC, EPBs).
• Localise and tailor The Careers & Enterprise Company toolkit, based on knowledge of local context; share the best practice and case examples back to The Careers & Enterprise Company
• Rigorously track impact working closely with The Careers & Enterprise Company
• Optimise the performance of the cluster:

a. Set a culture of excellent

b. Closely review whether the activities being provided in schools and colleges are meeting the needs of young people, schools and local economic needs and if not, identify ways to improve that activity;
c. Promote and share leading practice across the cluster of schools and colleges

d.

Formally evaluate and report progress to the LEP employability and Skills Board, your local Programme Board, and The Careers & Enterprise Company.

• Raise the profile of the programme locally through all available channels e.g. through interaction with local press and MP.
• Ensure effective and broadbased governance of the programme across a range of stakeholders.

Other duties
The post holder may be required to lead or support other projects as required by the organisation.

To undertake any other duty as required by the organisation, commensurate with pay grade, skills and experience.

To work with BEP colleagues to:

• Develop a shared knowledge of BEP projects and products, and create opportunities for mutually beneficial linkages between the