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SalaryJob Title: New Entrant Employer Support Adviser
Location: Mobile - West Midlands
1 x vacancy - West Midlands (Staffordshire and Black Country)
1 x vacancy - West Midlands (Greater Birmingham, Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire)
Permanent Role
Salary: £38,000
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CITB aims to lead the construction sector by example to ensure fairness, inclusion, and respect for all. We seek to develop an organisation which reflects Britain’s diverse population, and our main objective is to create a culture that enables our customers to strive towards an organisational community that is reflective of today’s society.
Role Purpose:
Responsibility for:
To be the regional New Entrant Employer Lead, generating new business for CITB and delivering an enhanced support service to employers already employing or considering employing New Entrants, including apprentices. This is to be achieved by building and maintaining an effective network or relationships with employers, training providers and local/national stakeholders and CITB partners that support the delivery of CITB’s strategic and business plans – specifically ‘Improving Construction’s People Pipeline’. The NEST team forms an integral part of the future plan around pipeline development, Provider Networks, Employer Networks and supporting a revised funding delivery model.
Role Accountabilities:
• Plan, implement and evaluate a business development strategy that results in new registrations of employers with CITB. Be responsible for target driven activity that increases the number of New Entrants being trained for construction trades and professions through engagement with existing CITB registered employers and new registrations.
• Plan and execute a strategy for engaging local stakeholders. Connecting local partners and networks to employers to enable the successful recruitment and achievement of both CITB funded and government funded programmes for New Entrants.
• Lead the development and maintenance of a regional profile of construction apprenticeship training provision (to include Apprenticeships, FE Construction programmes, T-Levels, skills bootcamps, pre-apprenticeship programmes) through effective engagement of training providers and key stakeholders.
• Working collaboratively with this network to maximise the capacity of apprenticeship delivery – linking with other Advisors to ensure this reflects national delivery across England. Working with other members of the engagement team to establish gaps in provision.
• Undertake regional and national targeted activities (in line with CITB’s commitment to embed FIR within all initiatives) that increase the diversity of talent pipeline for construction including but not limited to, active collaboration and relationship management with relevant stakeholders and networks, development of resources for employers that support them attract a diverse applicant pool.
• Maintain and apply specialist knowledge of DfE Apprenticeship Funding Rules, Digital Apprenticeship platforms, Levy Transfer processes, safeguarding of learners and IfATE Apprenticeships Standards and EPA processes to ensure that employers are fully able to commit to the requirements of an apprenticeship programme, select the right programme and provision, and understand their rights and responsibilities and can access information and support.
• Ensure employers are claiming all funding support available including CITB Apprenticeship Grant, Travel to Train, Levy Transfer and any local initiative funding that may be available. In doing so reducing the number of rejected grant applications and increasing the speed at which grants are authorised.
• Play an integral link- role into Employer Networks and Provider Networks, forming part of the CIT B local and regional teams supporting the networks to fully service the specific regional needs of employers, matching employers, and applicants in areas of greatest occupational and regional need.
• Working collaboratively across CITB, plan and deliver engagement events with employers and stakeholders that promote the NEST offer and increases the number of referrals to the team.
• Lead on progression pipeline with employers to engage with and support work experience opportunities for industries pool of potential new recruits from post 16 pathways including but not limited to FE construction courses and T Levels
• Use technical expertise and knowledge to support employers with the planning, managing and support to raise retention and achievement success rates to a defined KPI measurement. in line with CITB’s Business and Strategic Plan and CLC’s Industry Skills Plan
• Deliver work-based mentoring training to employers to a defined standard and specified learning outcomes. Support alumni of these courses with ongoing signposting to additional support and identifying progression pathways for mentoring training.
• Facilitate self-managing local forums for employers, training providers and other stakeholders to develop the validity and currency of training provision and deliver updates and outcomes of key NEST findings through evaluation of performance and business data.
• Manage a schedule of account management contact with employers who have recruited a New Entrant to ensure support is available that increases retention and achievement rates of learners, and that generate referrals to the Customer Engagement Team that increase grant aided training uptake. On completion training, the last contact should evidence signposting to progression pathways.
• Educate employers on the benefits of recruiting an apprentice.
• Use a sophisticated approach to understand the needs, goals and challenges of employers, and demonstrate the value that CITB can provide to them in order to set quality appointments and generate new business.
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