The focus for the Work Experience Manager would be:
Maintaining the relationships with the existing employers who are supporting us currently for work experience and many of which have been built up over many years of delivery.
Working with the client base who enlist our WEX services and ensuring they are kept up to date with progress and reporting.
To achieve and exceed all targets and company standards of performance. Be responsible for ensuring the team are identifying, securing and delivering work placement opportunities for students, across multi-curriculum areas, in line with targets. Develop and maintain long standing and strategic relationships with Employers, Schools, Colleges and Students.
Continually develop CER Careers Advisory Services market presence and reputation whilst ensuring that you enhance your knowledge and understanding of the education and employability sector.
Main duties and responsibilities
Prospect and cold calling to employers and businesses to identify and secure suitable work placement opportunities
- Building and developing on-going relationships with employers to promote links between the education sector, businesses and CER
- Successfully presenting work placement programmes to young people/students
- Liaising closely with college/school staff and their students to best match them to suitable work placement opportunities
- To know the exact status of “live” work placements to source and confirmed placements of your accounts at any time.
- Demonstrate the effective, efficient and accurate use of recording data in the execution of your daily tasks.
- Attending relevant client meetings, networking and employer fairs as appropriate
- Conducting Health and Safety paperwork including ELI confirmation.
- Working cooperatively as part of the a team
- Representing CER in a professional manner at all times
- Providing excellent customer serviceat all times
- Completing weekly KPI reports and providing to the CER SLT.
- Undertaking any other additional duties, as appropriate, required by the Team Delivery Manager
- Identifying and contacting new potential companies who are able to offer work placements is an essential key result area of the Employee Engagement Advisor.
- Once new contact has been identified, the next key result area is developing trust, rapport, and credibility with those contacts so that they will be positive and open to learning about the work experience benefit.
- On securing work experience placements you will be responsible for encouraging gaining extra referrals for additional work experience placements.
