Job Title: Employer Engagement Lead
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £20,053 - £21,268 per annum (pro rata of £37099 - £39,347) - SS6
Job type: Part-Time, 20 hours per week, 2-year fixed term contract.
The Role:
University College Birmingham is currently seeking a highly motivated Employer Engagement Lead to join our professional team. This role will support the delivery of the new Higher-Level Skills Match (HLSM) Plus project, funded by the Birmingham Enterprise Zone via Birmingham City Council, aimed at helping local companies secure the skills they need to sustain economic growth by recruiting and retaining more local graduates.
Working with a multi-institutional team, the Employer Engagement Lead will support businesses of all sizes, primarily based in the Birmingham Enterprise Zone. You will identify the skills they require to support business growth and source graduate level vacancies for the project's caseload of unemployed graduates. You will work closely with the Student Engagement Lead to assist in matching graduates to job vacancies and support the tracking of job retention and progression through effective account management.
Minimum Requirements:
You will be educated to at least minimum level 3 or equivalent and have experience in business support, employer engagement, or business development within a professional setting. You will have experience in organizing employer events, B2B relationship management, and/or business development, networking, and maintaining effective links with employers. A good understanding of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and experience of actively ensuring equal and fair treatment for those with protected characteristics is also required.
You will be based at the City Centre Campus in Birmingham and will need to travel to other locations when required.
Benefits:
- Generous allocation of annual leave
- 26 days' paid leave per year
- 12 Bank Holidays & Concessionary Days
- Excellent Local Government Scheme
- Employer Contributions - 20.9%
- Subsidised private healthcare provided by Aviva including a Digital GP Service.
- Employee Assistance Programme inclusive of counselling services, financial wellbeing support, and bereavement support.
- Annual health MOTs with our Registered Nurse.
- Excellent staff development opportunities including professional qualification sponsorship.
- A variety of salary sacrifice schemes including car, technology home, and cycle.
- Heavily-subsidised on-site car parking in central Birmingham.
- Free on-site gym membership.
Extra Information:
All applicants for employment at the University will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of the principles of Safeguarding and the PREVENT agenda in the context of further and higher education.
Closing Date - Sunday 8th September 2024.
Interview Dates - TBC.
UCB is an equal opportunities employer.
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