Employer Engagement Officer - Adult Community Learning
Permanent, Full Time
£25,211 to £29,660 per annum
Location: Colchester
Closing Date: Sunday 14th July 2024 at 11.59pm
This position will cover the North of Essex and while based out of the Adult Community Learning (ACL) office in the location listed the role requires the successful candidate to attend the Witham ACL centre one day per week to work collaboratively with colleagues, with the rest of your time being spent working across the North of Essex, engaging with business and working on a mobile basis, with some, occasional home based work for administration tasks, however this could also be done from your local ACL centre. All business mileage is covered.
Overview
ACL Essex is the largest provider of adult education in the county. Our aim is to provide learners with as many ways to flourish as possible, to be there in communities across Essex, to make a difference to residents and businesses, so they can make a difference for themselves and to the places that they live in.
The Role
ACL is ECC's provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents. ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances. The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex. ACL learners have access to a diverse range of accredited and non-accredited courses which encourage creativity, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion and engagement.
The Employer Engagement Officer is tasked with generating and sustaining new business for ACL. Proactively working to maximise opportunities, the role involves increasing the number of learners and apprenticeships across all programs. Excellent sales skills are required, along with demonstrable evidence of meeting targets.
With excellent account management, ability to build strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders that increases Apprenticeship take up and new business opportunities.
Accountabilities
The Experience You Will Bring:
Essential:
Desirable:
Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.