Business Engagement Officer

JOB TITLE: Business Engagement Officer

LOCATION: Wandsworth (Hybrid - 2 days off, 3 days wfh)

PAY RATE: £18.70 paye / £23.92 Umbrella (Per Hour)

START DATE: ASAP

DURATION/Hours: 3-month initial contract/ 36 hours a week (5 days)

Role purpose:

• The primary purpose of this position is to provide a screening and matching service for local people seeking employment and for local businesses seeking to recruit. Our objective is to ensure that residents registered with the Wandsworth Work Match brokerage service can access employment or training appropriate to their needs.
• The role of the Business Engagement and Employment Officer is to liaise with local businesses regarding job vacancies and other employment opportunities and to advertise, promote and match local applicants to vacancies advertised.
• The post holder will also work closely with Work Match's Partnerships and Commissioning team to ensure training delivered is employer responsive and demand led, based on evidence gathered from the local area and our Housing and Employment Team to ensure that a wide range of local job opportunities are presented to local jobseekers and those with an interest in working locally.

Duties & responsibilities:

• To liaise with local businesses regarding job vacancies, apprenticeships, or other employment opportunities. To advertise and promote these opportunities and match their requirements to those residents registered with the employment brokerage service.
• To work with clients registered with the Wandsworth employment brokerage service and associated services, matching their aspirations, knowledge and experience with the skills required by local employers.
  To assess client needs and develop individual actions plans to achieve sustainable employment and career outcomes.
• To develop and maintain a good knowledge of current customised training opportunities, advice and guidance, CV preparation, job readiness preparation and personal development courses available in Wandsworth to be accessed by local job seekers. Working closely with DWP and other partners to deliver a joined up, wrap around service (for example through referrals to other provision) to the client group from Wandsworth and associated boroughs.
• To always provide a professional brokerage service to employers and to job seekers, ensuring that they are given correct information relating to the service offered and their eligibility. Managing and maintaining a computerised database of clients and employers and ensuring all interactions and outcomes from these interventions are recorded in a timely and accurate way.
• To carry out and record regular follow up contact with clients to support sustainment of their training or work progression.
• To project manage programmes that assist residents into employment, promoting programmes that ensure an integrated and co-ordinated approach to meeting current and future skills needs of businesses and improve access for local residents in existing and future employment opportunities.
• To take responsibility to produce effective and creative marketing and promotional materials to raise awareness of the service and the opportunities it offers to residents. To maximise the engagement of diverse and hard to reach beneficiaries. To attend local events, meetings and forums as required by the Lead Recruitment and Employment Specialist.
• To facilitate events and deliver presentations, that will raise awareness of our integrated approach to meeting current and future skills needs of businesses and improve access for residents to existing and future employment opportunities to schools, steering groups, and partners. Working with local community organisations and representatives to support the aims of the service.
• To provide an effective contribution to meeting outputs and targets identified within particular growth areas or in response to strategic aims and objectives.
• To undertake any other duties as directed commensurate with the grading of the post including some out of hours work - sometimes at short notice.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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