Work Experience Coordinator

Flexible working, includes some late evening work – parents evening (not many).

Please note a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.

Benefits and more information:

In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

Southwark Education Business Alliance brings schools and businesses together through a range of activities including Work Experience which are aimed at raising young peoples’ aspirations and awareness of different career choices. We manage a large number of business volunteer mentors in primary and secondary schools. Are you organised, methodical, passionate in working with young people, and have experience in stakeholder engagement?

We are looking for a Work Experience Coordinator to be responsible for managing and delivering Southwark Education Business Alliance’s Work Experience programmes with partner schools in line with statutory frameworks and health and safety regulations.

You will work with a highly dynamic team delivering a range of work related learning activities aimed at raising young people’s aspirations in addition to developing their employability skills.

About you:

The successful candidate will have considerable experience delivering successful Work Experience programmes at a school or for an intermediary organisation, will have excellent communication skills, be organised, detailed and able to manage own workload with clear deadlines. You will also need to have knowledge and experience including assessing the suitability of work placements. This role requires frequent presentations to parents, teachers and the young people and report writing.

About Southwark:

We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Closing Date: 19 March 2024 at 23:59
Interview and Assessment Date: week commencing 25 March 2024

SWCHTF

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.