Careers & Employability Officer (Term Time Only + 4 Weeks)

Do you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills? Do you have experience of working with employers? Hopwood Hall College is expanding, and we are looking for a dedicated Careers and Employability Officer to join our dynamic team! 

About the Role: As a Careers and Employability Officer, you will play a crucial role in guiding and supporting our students towards their career aspirations. You will work closely with learners, providing advice, resources, and opportunities to enhance their employability skills and prepare them for the future job market. You will work with employers and stakeholders, to secure placement and WEX opportunities for all learners including our T Level’s. 

Key Responsibilities

• To promote and raise awareness of the employability offer at Hopwood Hall College, which includes showcasing our offer to students and employer partners. 
• To create strong partnerships with employers, both locally and regionally to work with our curriculum teams to provide meaningful work experience, industry placements, employer masterclasses and employer input in the design of the curriculum. 
• To work with the T level delivery team in the timely planning and implementation of Industry Placements.
• To work flexibly across the college with internal and external stakeholders to provide a comprehensive, impartial careers education, information, advice, and guidance function for the College. 
• To work in a collaborative, partnership focused manner to ensure a student-centred approach in delivering a range of CEIAG interventions including 1:1s, workshops, activities and events. Ensuring CEIAG sessions are aspirational, empowering and enable students to progress and achieve their goals.
• Contact employers, to generate and provide high quality employer engagement and placement opportunities ensuring all communication with employers is followed up in a timely way and professional manner. Conduct employer visits for safety appraisals, midpoint and endpoint reviews.
• Work closely with the Employer Services team to ensure work placement is explored with all current and potential apprenticeship employers and our AEB (Adult Education Budget) offer is included in the employer offer.
• Champion and promote the college’s Careers service to staff, students, parents and external agencies.
• Provide a range of Careers interventions throughout the learner journey from enrolment through to supporting progression, including 1:1 personal guidance, group work, workshops, and HE events. Empowering learners to make effective, well informed decisions regarding course options, progression pathways and career goals.
• To work within the scope of the college’s Careers strategy to support the development of the Gatsby Benchmarks ensuring they are embedded consistently across the college.
• Develop and maintain your own knowledge of educational developments such as T Levels, changes to qualifications and labour market information.
• To work as part of the wider student experience team and support and contribute at both our campuses.
• Work with Centre Directors, Programme Managers and Progress Tutors across the college to plan and maintain a schedule of employer engagement 
• Work closely with Progress Tutors and teaching staff to ensure students are clearly identified for appropriate work experience opportunities and planning for attendance at work placement is effective and supported with prepared learners. This will also include T Level placements and Industrial Placements within vocational areas.
• Work with student experience team to ensure learning materials to support work experience are up-to-date and utilised effectively within the tutorial programme and that ProMonitor is fully utilised and recorded to capture employer engagement.
• To enable to provide quality assurance audits, to ensure work experience monitoring is in place, meaningful and effective. This would also include Quality assurance of Gatsby Benchmarks activities such as Peer on Peer observations of personal guidance.
• Provide cross college reporting on take-up of employer engagement including work experience, industry placements and masterclasses as part of the student experience wider reporting, which is shared with SLT and Governors.
• Promote the use of ProMonitor and other college systems to provide high quality opportunities to prepare for and reflect upon employer engagement opportunities.
• Promote the linkage between curriculum teams and employers to define ‘live project briefs’ to involve classroom-based students in work that is responsive to employer’s needs.
• Undertake a full range of promotional activities including careers fairs aimed at engaging employers/ providers in learner progression opportunities.