Job Broker Employer Engagement

Job Broker - Employer Engagement

Locations: Canterbury to Dover (Margate Ramsgate Folkestone)
Hours:MondayFriday 9am5pm
Salary:29000 - 32000

Contract:Full-time permanent home-based with regular travel and outreach across East Kent.

Help young people take their next step into work

At Fedcap we believe every young person should have the opportunity to build a better future through work.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming futures by connecting young people with local employers. Youll build strong relationships with businesses identify meaningful job opportunities and work closely with participants to understand their goals match them to the right role and support them to succeed.

If youre someone who enjoys engaging employers creating opportunities and seeing the life-changing impact that employment can have on an individuals confidence independence and future this could be the role for you.

What youll be doing

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with local employers across a range of sectors.

• Generating quality vacancies work placements apprenticeships and other employment opportunities.

• Getting to know employers and understand their recruitment needs workplace culture and progression opportunities.

• Developing a pipeline of vacancies and actively match participants to suitable opportunities.

• Using creative approaches such as reverse marketing to open up opportunities that may not otherwise exist.

• Supporting participants throughout the recruitment journey from identifying suitable roles through to interviews job starts and beyond.

• Working with employers and participants to agree effective onboarding arrangements workplace support and reasonable adjustments where required.

• Carrying out strengths-based vocational profiling to understand each participants skills aspirations experience and barriers.
• Providing practical support with job searching applications CVs and interview preparation.
• Connecting participants with specialist services and community organisations where additional support is needed.
• Providing in-work support to help people settle into their roles overcome challenges and sustain employment.

What were looking for

Were interested in people who can build relationships spot opportunities and genuinely want to help people succeed.

Youll ideally have experience in recruitment employer engagement business development sales account management employability employment services or another employer-facing role.

Were looking for someone who can:

• Build trusted relationships with employers and other stakeholders.
• Identify employer needs and turn conversations into real recruitment opportunities.
• Match people effectively to vacancies and support successful recruitment.
• Communicate confidently and influence a wide range of people.
• Network within the local business community and develop new employer relationships.
• Manage multiple employers vacancies and participants while staying organised.
• Work towards performance targets and contractual outcomes.
• Understand local labour markets and the factors influencing recruitment.

Experience of welfare-to-work employability supported employment or working with people facing barriers to employment would be valuable as would experience of working with young people apprenticeships or skills pathways.

Above all were looking for someone who is passionate about creating opportunities and making a tangible difference to peoples lives.

Why join Fedcap

At Fedcap UK were a mission-led not-for-profit organisation focused on improving peoples economic mobility.

As part of our team youll have the opportunity to make a real difference every day helping people take steps towards employment while building lasting relationships with employers in your community.

Heres what makes Fedcap a rewarding career

At Fedcap were proud to offer a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package designed to support your wellbeing development and work-life balance:

• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 500 annual benefits scheme to spend at over 900 retailers
• Cycle to Work scheme open all year round
• Pension schemewith up to 5%employer match
• Free life assurance worth 4x your salary
• Health & wellbeing support including access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
• Digital gym mindfulness resources virtual GP and more

Equity Diversity & Inclusion

Were committed to creating a workplace where everyone is treated fairly feels they belong and can do their best work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds identities and communities and we value the different perspectives and lived experiences they bring. We do not discriminate on the basis of age disability gender reassignment marriage or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sex or sexual orientation.

• Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and where required in the workplace. We will not exclude a candidate with a disability unless they are unable to carry out a duty that is intrinsic to the role after reasonable adjustments have been considered.
• We are positive about employing veterans serving personnel and spouses/partners and family members as part of our commitment to the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.
• As a Ban the Box employer we assess applicants on their skills and potential. We do not ask about criminal convictions at the initial application stage and any relevant information is considered fairly and in line with the role.

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