Work Experience Coordinator - Manchester, United Kingdom - Employment

Employment

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location
Manchester

Company
Employment

Contract type
Permanent/ Full
- time

Salary
up to £28,420 per annum

Closing Date
25/11/2023

Ref No
3845

The Growth Company's (GC) employment services has an exciting opportunity for a Work Experience Coordinator

working on our Progression towards Inclusive Employment (PtIE) programme.

To deliver effective first-class administrative support, meet and greet customers and consult with a range of organisations such as Job Centre Plus, contract holders, employers, management, and staff within the team.

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.

We 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Attend and organise local networking events, recruitment fairs, conferences to promote benefits of the programme.
Work with employees and organisations to source and create placement opportunities.
Build a rapport/relationship with existing and lapsed clients to help promote repeat business.
Work with customers to support their learning process and progress.
Have a great understanding of the local labour market and be able to utilise this knowledge to further the aims of the programme.
Work in partnership with customers to promote behaviours associated with their work to optimise experience of the placement.
Undertake Health and Safety assessments and update all health and safety information for placements, and work closely with the client/host to ensure suitability of all placements.

About You:

Extensive knowledge of the labour market and the recruitment industry.
To work well in a highpressure environment and be able to confidently complete own workload.
Must have a flexible approach to work, including willingness to travel and work occasional unsociable hours.

Requirements:

Experience working with KPI's and Targets within a sales environment.
Must have sales experience and negotiation skills.
Good understanding of the recruitment process with securing vacancies/placements.
Be confident enough to contact the decision maker and identifying business opportunities.

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.