Posted in job choice on May 20, 2010



Working for a successful training organisation, you will be responsible for establishing and maintaining excellent relationships with jobseekers, understanding and meeting their needs and really believing that the organisation can help everyone towards the world of work.
Person Profile

We are seeking someone who has a real passion for people. Someone who can empower, motivate, support and advise customers, helping them into sustainable employment with the ultimate goal of improving their lives.

Accountabilities:

• Cross-reference, screen and refer job ready job seekers to employment opportunities.
• Using all the relationships and resources to help more clients into sustainable employment.
• Working imaginatively and flexibly with people on their caseload to help them into sustainable employment.
• Providing the bridge between engagement and employer consultants so that the client receives the best possible service and opportunities.
• Operating in a solutions ‘can-do’, proactive environment acting as a champion for the client, really believing that we can help them back to work.

Responsibilities include:

• Using your drive, initiative and sales experience to generate those all important job opportunities.
• Building long term relationships with local employers
• Working really closely with your customers and their Job Centre Advisor to identify and match the right customer to the right job opportunity.
• Having 1-2-1 job matching sessions to understand your customers’ preferences with regards to job type, salary and location.
• Providing advice, support and interview sessions, to ensure your customers have the right training and coaching and feel confident about attending interviews.
• Ensuring that all your documentation is accurate, up to date and returned within the deadlines that are set to you.

Skills and Abilities Required

• Proven experience gained from within a sales environment, preferably recruitment.
• An understanding and interest of the local labour market in order to provide knowledgeable advice.
• Negotiation skills and the ability to flex your style of communication when dealing with a wide variety of different people and situations.
• Self motivation, a friendly competitive drive and the flexibility to travel when required.
• I.T literacy, specifically experience of using all MS Office packages.
• An NVQ in Information Advice and Guidance would be beneficial.

Salary £16k – £18k basic, plus commission

To apply please click on the following link:

JobMAETs Consultant / Job Coach

KEYWORDS: Sales, Recruitment, JOBMAET, Employer Engagement,Recruitment Consultant, Back to work, employability, Job Coach

Posted in job choice on May 9, 2010

Description
JOB TITLE: JobMAETs Manager, Chesterfield
SALARY: £28k – £30k (Negotiable)

Job purpose:
Working for a successful Training Organisation, you will be managing a dynamic team to target individual employers to secure opportunities for jobseekers who have undergone training to be placed into sustainable employment and to establish and maintain excellent relationships with jobseekers, understanding and meeting their needs in seeking employment.

Person profile:
Someone who has gravitas and can build excellent relations with major employers as well as SMEs, Genuinely cares about the jobseeker and can provide the trust and respect to all individuals. Is work focused and is able to use a variety of skills to challenge and persuade people. Is confident, tenacious, committed and dedicated, is able to motivate and has a genuine interest in people. Is constantly searching for new solutions, and striving for the best solution for each person. Is able to work well as part of a team and recognises the interdependencies with the rest of the location.

Accountable for:
• Placing people who are out of work into sustainable employment within the contract rules.
• Developing new relationships with companies and organisations.
• Using all the relationships and resources of the company, training departments and wider partnerships to help more clients into sustainable employment.
• Working imaginatively and flexibly with people on their caseload to help them into sustainable employment.
• Providing a solid link between the jobseeker and the company, to ensure that both clients receive the best possible service and opportunities.
• Operating in a solutions ‘can-do’, proactive environment acting as a champion for the jobseeker, really believing that we can help them back to work.
• Managing the targets and audit compliancy of the contract.
• Team and team development

Responsibilites include:

• Plan/carry out/support local marketing activities to agreed budgets and timescales, and integrate personal sales efforts with other organized marketing activities, eg., product launches, promotions, advertising, exhibitions and telemarketing.
• Communicate, liaise, and negotiate internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profitable business and sustainable relationships.
• Attend and present at external customer meetings and internal meetings with other company functions necessary to perform duties and aid business development.
• To develop strong relationships with partners, networks, clients and staff
• To play a key role in giving ‘Direction’ to the company and leading change through a strong belief system and commitment to creating a learning organisation
• To employ, manage and motivate all staff under your direct control to achieve best practice and the required standards of service, in line with current employment legislation.
• Following regular appraisal to prepare training needs analysis for your team and coordinate appropriate training as required .

To view the job and to apply online, please click on the following link:

JobMAETs Manager Vacancy

kEYWORDS: Training Sector, Recruitment, Recruiter, Employability, JobMAETs, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Near Sheffield South Yorkshire, “Recruitment consultant”, employability services, training sector management, employer engagement, employer engagement manager

Salary: £28,000 – £30,000 (Negotiable)


Posted in job choice on May 1, 2010

Senior Position – Chief Executive Officer, Training Sector, Derbyshire from V Selective Training Sector Recruitment

Reporting to: Board of Directors
Full-Time and Permanent

Salary: Negotiable (Guide is £45k – £65k)
Applicants must be available for the following Interview Date: June 4th 2010

Our client are a growing membership based Training Consortium who represent over 60 Training Providers (members) within Derbyshire, the East Midlands region and nationally.
They provide a support and information network to its members and secure funded training contracts from the LSC (Train to Gain, Skills for Life, Apprenticeships and more) which they subcontract to their members who then deliver these in accordance with contract criteria.
Their members range from small independent training companies to national training providers, colleges and educational suppliers.

Job Purpose :
To provide vision, direction and leadership to plan and deliver the Company’s long/short term strategic aims and objectives in-line with its values, mission and strategy.

Key Responsibilities

- Strategic & Operational Planning
- Financial Management
- Human Resource Management
- Performance management of the Senior Management Team
- Working with the Operations Manager, authorize all personnel actions that fully conform to current laws and regulations, including; staff policies and procedures, staff recruitment, discipline, aims, objectives and performance issues.
- Environmental Standards
- Programme, Product and Service Delivery
- Sector Development

Person Specification

- A clear understanding of the current key priorities within the skills and employability sector
- Experience in management in a dynamic environment
- Stakeholder oriented, results focused, strategically aware, flexible and adaptable, credible and charismatic and self motivated.

Experience/Skills

- Demonstrable experience in successfully managing a similar size (SME) organization at a senior level
- An understanding of the education and skills agenda nationally, regionally and locally
- Proven skills in business and financial management.
- Proven track record of winning new deliverable business and increasing revenue

Qualifications

- Degree in Business Leadership & Management (or equivalent) – or working towards
- Leadership & Management Qualification at Level 5 (or equivalent) – or working towards

Benefits

- Competitive Salary
- Travel Payments : 0.40p per mile
- Pension: Stakeholder Pension available

KEYOWORDS: Chief Executive, Senior Manger, Director vacanies, Senior appointments in Training Sector, LSC, Training Sector, Education, Train to Gain, Training Providers, East Midlands, Derbyshire

Posted in job choice on April 25, 2010

Student Records Manager in Hull

Managerial Admin Role

£29000 to £30000 per annum

Student Records Manager
Salary c. £30k, more for an exceptional candidate

Our College has ambitious plans for growth and development. Key to our future success is this new role, which will lead a newly reorganised team in providing an excellent, customer focussed information and records service to current and prospective students.

The person we are looking for is a results focussed, highly self motivated and successful team leader, who is good at identifying process improvements and enacting them – fast.

Experience of the FE/HE sector is desirable, but secondary to having the right personal skills and attributes along with a strong administrative background.

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