Employment and Skills Co-ordinator
| Posting date: | 26 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,821 to £39,082 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, London, SE1 8LF |
| Company: | NCG |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | NCG0000032_1750953724 |
Summary
About the Role
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Employment and Skills Co-ordinator to join our team at Southwark College. This role is crucial in supporting our college's employability initiatives and maintaining strong relationships with external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
Stakeholder Engagement and Recruitment
- Build and maintain relationships with local Job Centres and their Job Coaches to promote college training opportunities
- Deliver engaging outreach presentations and information sessions at Job Centres
- Process communications from DWP and other external agencies
- Develop effective marketing materials to support learner recruitment
- Track and report on recruitment activities and conversion rates
Student Support and Administration
- Manage the full learner enrolment process, including initial assessment and documentation
- Coordinate exam bookings and support students with external licence applications
- Provide ongoing Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) to students
- Monitor student outcomes and maintain regular communication
- Maintain comprehensive administrative records
Performance Management
- Support the monitoring and maintenance of employability performance data
- Provide administrative support for curriculum areas in relation to employability
- Coordinate external stakeholder communications
- Ensure high-quality customer service delivery throughout all interactions
Required Skills and Qualities
- Excellent administrative and organisational abilities
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in data management and reporting
- Experience in stakeholder relationship management
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Customer service-oriented approach
About Southwark College
Southwark College is a large further education college in London, offering an exciting range of work-focused courses that give our students the skills and experience they need to develop their employment potential. We provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.
We're proud of our success in achieving excellent results and producing knowledgeable and successful students, but we're built on our staff and our success is down to recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. Helping our young people and adults to fulfil their potential and often transform their lives through education requires dedication, patience and the ability to think differently. That's why we set out to recruit staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome.
We'd love you to join the team if you want to make a real difference to the lives of students, local employers and the wider Southwark community. In return, we'll provide you with a range of development opportunities, benefits and support to help you fulfil your role.
Southwark College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Southwark College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
- Being both inclusive and diverse
- Trusting and respecting our communities
- Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
- Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Southwark College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers' pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
NCG is a great place to work, with a whole host of benefits such as:
- Generous Annual Leave
- Government Pension Schemes
- Competitive Salaries
- Flexible Working
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Access to Discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training and Development Opportunities
- Enhanced Sickness Policy
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme