Learner Engagement Advisor

Learner Engagement Team Leader

Full time, 35 hours a week

£20,701 to £25,197 depending on experience

Based in Nottingham, may involve some travel to recruitment events across the East Midlands.

Background

Our client is a well-established leading training organisation working in and around Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. We provide a range of employment related training including Full Time Programmes, Apprenticeships, Employability, Adult Learning Loans and work experience opportunities for adults and young people from diverse backgrounds, that will enhance individuals’ employment potential and qualifications. In our most recent Ofsted inspection in we retained our “Good” rating and we are continuously developing and improving our provision.

Main purpose:

• To provide an effective and efficient learner recruitment service to our learners across all programmes

Key responsibilities

• To recruit learners onto the relevant training programmes ensuring KPIs are
• To manage a caseload of employer vacancies, recruiting on these and liaising and updating the employer regarding the progress, as a minimum, a weekly basis.
• To advertise employer vacancies on the various platforms including, but not exhaustive of, the Apprenticeship Service, company website, referral partners and other appropriate
• To sift and pre-screen applicants in a timely and efficient
• To organise and set up candidate interviews with employers to ensure vacancies are filled timely in order to meet customer needs, team and individual
• To carry out pre-screen interviews with the candidates, providing effective Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) to ensure you match the right candidates to the right programme with the right employer, first
• To follow up all applicants, in a timely manner, referring to alternative provision where
• To provide support to learners to ensure they are fully prepared for and attend their interviews with employers

• To contribute to the generation of new opportunities/business in general by making calls to employers to source placements and/or vacancies and to participate in marketing activities
• To attend careers fairs and any other learner recruitment events as
• To maintain accurate records on systems/trackers as
• To set applicants up on maths and English initial assessments and diagnostics, where applicable and monitor timely completions of
• Obtain prior learning records (PLR) for applicants checking for prior learning and
• To assist and support other members of the Engagement
• Produce weekly/monthly reports as

Other duties

• To follow company procedures and policies including equality of opportunity, health and safety and safeguarding.
• To comply with the Equality Opportunity, Health & Safety and Safeguarding policies ensuring that any issues are handled and referred
• To undertake any other duties/projects relevant to the

Applicants must have:

• A transferable skill such as recruitment or
• Excellent IT skills (spreadsheets, databases, word processing, email, internet )
• Grade 4-9 in Maths and English or
• Excellent customer service
• Attention to
• Driving licence and own transport

The following will be helpful:

• Experience within a training or education environment
• A qualification in Information, Advice and Guidance
• Experience of guiding and supporting people
• Knowledge of government funded programmes

Applicants should be able to:

• Communicate effectively with wide range of people with a variety of needs. This will include listening and talking with learners to identify their needs and any support requirements and liaising and negotiating with employers, organisations, referral agencies and other staff involved in the learning Must be easily understood and able to get messages across diplomatically when required. Able to write accurately and concisely using existing documentation and pro-formas to good effect. Able to make effective use of IT/Powerpoint.
• Work as part of a team to ensure a holistic approach to the learners’ needs. This will include working with internal colleagues, employers, Futures/Connexions and other referral agencies to secure the best way forward and positive outcomes for
• Work with the learner group. This will mean supporting learners at different levels and with different needs. With training and the help of psychometric testing and basic skills assessments, must be able to assess learners’ needs and recommend the most appropriate learning area and method. Able to provide excellent customer care, treat everyone according to their individual needs and on occasions handle pressures such as distressed or misbehaving learners and take the appropriate Must be enthusiastic, highly motivated, have a lively personality and the ability to motivate learners to reach their full potential.

Prince Resourcing Limited, trading as Prince Talent and Resourcing (11366232) acts as an Employment Agency and is a subsidiary of Talentia Group.