Employer Engagement Manager

Location: Remote working in Northern Ireland

Responsible to: Head of Work Experience – Northern Ireland

Salary: £31,365 per annum rising to £33,948 after a year

Contract: Full-time, 37 hours a week

Closing date: Monday 25th November 2024 at 9 AM

Interview date: We will be interviewing on a rolling basis

Who we are

Speakers for Schools is the largest social mobility charity in the UK. We help to level the playing field between state and independent schools by giving all young people access to the same prestigious networks available to the top fee-paying schools.

We believe that by inspiring young people to explore their ambitions through our speaker programme, facilitating access to multi-day experiences of the world of work, and supporting young people to successfully seize opportunities available to them, then we can make a profound difference to the lives of young people, their future happiness and prosperity.

By 2028, our ambition is that every young person in the UK has access to high quality work experience. Yet today, less than half of young people leave secondary school having had any work experience whatsoever.   

Role Summary

Working to targets you will focus on business development by researching and reaching out to new business as well as account management of existing relationships in your dedicated region. You will work to deliver our customer experience across a portfolio of programmes, forging a regional ecosystem to provide quality experience for young people with regional employers.

Key Duties / Responsibilities:

• Effective business research and development to enable outreach to and the onboarding of new host employers, helping to grow our employer network to reach ambitious targets for Experience Programmes (and others as they develop).
• Delivering income from employers, and education & training providers to meet regional income targets
• Account managing relationships with participating employers, education & training providers, supporting them in the design of programmes (where appropriate) and engagement with our technology platform.
• Responsible for delivery and completion of own operational and administrative activity.
• Supporting programmes as needed on any contact, phone conversations with stakeholders, programme delivery tasks and wider charity work in support of wider organisation aims and needs, particularly during peak delivery periods.
   

Skills / Experience / Knowledge:

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience of business development with a variety of stakeholders.
• Demonstrable account management experience of growing and managing new and existing accounts.
• Demonstrable experience in a similar/related environment working with a variety of stakeholders
• Clear communicator, capable of producing written content to a professional standard and confident liaising with stakeholders at all levels
• Demonstrable experience in working with technology and data management
• Proven capability of working through high volumes of work and delivering on targets across varying objectives within delivery
• Proven capability at organising their workload and driving forward independently

Desirable:

• Previous experience working with HR/Recruitment/CSR/Engagement/Business Development teams an advantage
• Experience working with young people within a career/education or youth background
• An understanding of the NI Education System and a familiarity with careers provision within NI schools and colleges would be an advantage
• Proficient use of the Salesforce CRM, to track relationships and ensure proper data management

Diversity at our core

Speakers for schools is committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and encouraging equality and diversity among our workforces. As a Disability Confident Employer, we acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to us via recruitment@speakersforschools.org 

Speakers for Schools Values

PASSION: We are committed to levelling the playing field for young people across the UK, creating social mobility and tackling disadvantages.

AGILITY: We challenge our ideas of what is possible in order to better meet the needs of those we support. We are human, make mistakes, learn, evolve and adapt.

INTEGRITY: We act with empathy and bring our authentic selves to work every day. We value and respect the talent, time and intentions of those we work with.

COLLABORATION: We are one team with one mission and only by working together can we deliver better outcomes for young people. We support each other unconditionally and feel motivation in shared success as well as individual progress.

DIVERSITY: We know it takes people with different ideas, strengths, identities, interests, and cultural backgrounds to make our organisation succeed. We encourage constructive debate and critical friendship.

Benefits offered at Speakers for Schools:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Morning of your birthday off
• Pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme for mental health and wellbeing
• 3 voluntary days per year
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption package
• Subsidised office furniture
• £500 a year training allowance
• Death in Service benefit (4x salary)

The Application Process: 

Please apply as soon as possible by submitting your application through our recruitment portal. 

The deadline to submit your application is Monday 25th November at 9 AM. Please note that we reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications 

We will be interviewing on a rolling basis, please apply as soon as possible.

Speakers for Schools is committed to safeguarding the young people we work with and expects all staff members to share this commitment. Appointees are subject to a DBS check.   Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants. You are also required to have the Right to Work in the UK for this role. 

If you have not heard from us two weeks after the closing date, please presume your application has been unsuccessful.