Employer Engagement Officer

Employer Engagement Officer:

• Are you a strong communicator with excellent relationship management skills?
• Would you like to help strengthen the skills and employment system in South London and support employers to get the staff they need to thrive?
• Do you want to help residents get into good, sustainable work?
• Want a flexible and inclusive employer with fantastic leave entitlement and benefits?
• Enjoy working remotely but happy to run and attend events across South London?

If so, this role is for you…

South London Partnership are looking for an Employer Engagement Officer, to support the delivery of the No Wrong Door, South London Integration Hub and the delivery of the South London Local Skills Improvement Plan 

You will be a strong communicator, with excellent relationship management skills.  Willing to reach out and connect with employers across South London to support them to access the skills and employment system. 

You will be responsible for supporting the Integration Hub Project Lead to deliver programmes and workstreams that enable key groups of Londoners who are unemployed and/or are facing vulnerabilities or structural inequalities, to access good work.   

As an Employer Engagement officer you will have the opportunity to make a material impact on the lives of south Londoners by increasing improving their pathways to skills and good quality jobs with employers in the sub region.  

South London Partnership (SLP) is a small and dynamic, close-knit team, working across the 5 boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, and Sutton. The SLP team focuses on areas where collaboration leads to increased influence, increased powers and funding and better delivery of the services our residents need.   

About the role 

The South London Partnership (SLP) is a cross-party five borough sub-regional partnership of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, and Sutton. It has a small core team working closely with politicians, chief executives, senior managers, and subject specialists in each of the five boroughs, as well as London and local stakeholders and partners. Together we have forged an ambitious programme of work that is securing greater sub-regional collaboration and traction on areas including, health, economy, skills, and transport. The SLP boroughs collaborate sub-regionally on things where they can secure more together than individually. The SLP team focuses on areas where collaboration leads to increased influence, increased powers and funding and better delivery of the services our residents need.

The South London Integration Hub is an exciting project, forming part of the Mayor’s London Recovery Missions and the ‘No Wrong Door’ approach to employment and skills support, delivered across the five SLP boroughs. At present, the employment and skills landscape is complex, fragmented, and difficult for Londoners to navigate. This means that Londoners often struggle to access the support that could best meet their needs, and that services are not as coordinated as they could be. Additionally, the Local Skills Improvement Plan for South London has highlighted the need for increased engagement with employers so that they can be at the heart of skills provision in the subregion.  

The role will see you linking with existing Employer Engagement forums, forging new links and relationships, and becoming our go to expert on Employer Engagement. 

Although a flexible hybrid role you will link with employers across South London, deliver and attend events and meetings, therefore travel across South London will feature regularly within your work. 

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Strong communication skills and relationship management skills
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills
• An understanding of the skills and employment landscape locally, regionally, and nationally
• Experience of organising and facilitating events and meetings
• Ability to work independently, produce plans and timetables of own work and revise plans based on programme priorities 

Closing Date: 9 June 2024.

Shortlisting Date: W/C 10th June 2024.

Interview Date: TBC.

For an informal conversation please contact Kirsty Hogg Integration Hub Project Lead via kirsty.hogg@southlondonpartnership.co.uk

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. 

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying. Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised. 

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.