Personal Development Coordinator

Job Title: Personal Development Coordinator

Location: South Yorkshire

Position: Full time (37 hrs per week, 40 Weeks)

Salary: £24,249 FTE (actual £21,451) per annum

About the Role

The Personal Development Co-ordinator is a newly created position within our Student Support Service team and will be responsible for the creation and delivery of an exciting and engaging programme of Personal Development activities and events for college learners to enhance their College experience.

As a Personal Development Co-ordinator, the key duties of this role will be to create a programme of Personal Development activities, available to all learners and working with learners to understand key topics and themes. You will organise, coordinate and deliver events to develop the essential life and personal skills of students, including health, wellbeing and learning opportunities

You will build effective partnerships with external organisations, who will provide guest speaker delivery and lead on learner voice activity.

You will…

• You will have experience of working within an educational environment, ideally within a Further Education/Post-16 environment. Working as a team, you will be responsible for organising, co-ordinating, promoting and delivering events to develop essential life and personal skills of learners.

• You will have qualifications in English and Maths at Level 2 (GCSE) or equivalent, and a Level 2 qualification in Guidance/Counselling or similar. You will also be able to demonstrate good customer service skills and be able to work with respect and confidentiality.

Department Info

The role of Personal Development Co-ordinator will work within a team on site and with colleagues in similar positions across other campuses in order to provide a consistent approach to events, delivery and offerings.  You will report to the Student Support Team Leader and work closely with colleagues in the Student Support teams onsite. You will also liaise with curriculum managers and tutors to ensure learners access appropriate Personal Development opportunities for their individual learner journey.

Our excellent benefits and rewards package:

• Access to local government pension
• Up to 41 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period
• Access to our gyms, restaurants and salons
• Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
• Full, part time and flexible working hours available in many roles
• Parking available at all of our sites
• Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships and various other industry recognised qualifications

If you are a Personal Development Coordinator and you feel you meet the criteria, please forward us your most up to date CV by clicking ‘Apply Now’.  If you have any questions, then don’t hesitate to contact your local Further Education branch, we would love to speak to you and help you figure out the next step in your career.

All candidates who register with Reed Education will have 5 years’ referencing taken up and will be required to have a DBS check completed. All offers are conditional upon satisfactory background checks.

Reed Education is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment by completing mandatory training within 6 weeks of your first assignment and annually thereafter.