Work Experience Coordinator
The Vacancy
We are seeking an innovative and motivated individual to coordinate Work Experience for our learners at the College. Our quest is to provide all students with the opportunities to gain real-life outstanding of the workplace, and support them to practice the skills needed to access their next steps, whether in future education or employment.
If this sounds like your kind of job role, then please read on about the types of attributes our ideal candidate will demonstrate…..
You have excellent organisation, planning and communication (particularly persuasion and negotiation) skills, you are good at multi-tasking, able to adapt to change and work in different environments, ideally with a good rounded knowledge of a number of different industries. You use SMART strategies to work efficiently and can competently use digital applications such as Word, Excel and tracking and monitoring systems.
You are confident working and liaising with people from all walks of life, and able to demonstrate key emotional intelligence attributes including congruence and empathy. You are results driven and have a proven track record for achieving targets and deadlines. You are a critical yet creative thinker with the ability to generate lateral solutions, and your positive mindset ensures you calmly and effectively achieve the desired outcome.
You will employ your skills to network and develop strong sustainable relationships with external agencies and employers to generate new opportunities. You will match, record and review work experience, placements and encounters for our students. You will also participate in the development and implementation of cross college-enterprise and work skills engagement activities and events.
We will be eager to invest in your CPD, enhancing your potential abilities to successfully execute the role’s key responsibilities, we will support you to achieve your personal career goals.
We are not looking for someone that has necessarily worked in this type of role before, we are committed to training and developing the right person, with the underpinning experience and attributes to enable us to be successful.
About Kidderminster College
Kidderminster College has been around for over 140 years and we specialise in vocational courses. This means when our students leave us, they’re ready to launch into their dream career!
Being a smaller college, with around 200 staff and 2,000 students, we’re able to concentrate on supporting our learners and helping them find their place in the world. With a real sense of support and community, #TeamKC provides the perfect next step for students making that sometimes daunting step from school to higher education or straight into the workplace.
Our main campus is based in the centre of Kidderminster Town, which means that we’re at the heart of everything here. Our second campus, the Vocational Skills Centre, is a short walk away and houses our Motor Vehicle and Vehicle Respray garages and our builders’ yard.
Our state-of-the-art facilities provide the perfect environment to help truly push our students and assist them with carving out their perfect career. With our recording studios, Apple suite, fully-equipped theatre, professional workshops, high-class salon, kitted out classrooms, expert acting and dance studios and our partnership with The West Midlands Safari Park, we aim to provide the best learning experience possible for our cohort.
We’re a community at Kidderminster College and we’d love for you to join the team!
Kidderminster College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Kidderminster College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Kidderminster College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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Telephone: 0191 226 6390
Email: NCGRecruitment@ncgrp.co.uk