Speakers for Schools Looking for Employer Engagement Manager London at London, Greater London (Hybrid) Full Time

Job title:                 Employer Engagement Manager London

Location:                Remote working in London

Responsible to:     Head of Engagement London

Salary:                     £29,680 – £34,000 (plus £2,500 London weighting if applicable)

Contract:                Full time, 37 hours a week

Closing Date:         23rd December 2022 at 9 AM

Interview Date:     TBC

 

Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter, your application will not be considered.

Although this role is based remotely, it is preferred that you live in London. Please note, you may be required to travel to client locations in and around London; therefore, for some roles you should live within a commutable distance without impacting productivity or adding a substantive financial burden to the charity, to be successful in your application.

 

Why us?

Speakers for Schools is a dynamic, swift-moving and fast-growing charity. We are on a mission to support a million young people across the UK annually by 2023. Having taken the first steps on the road to achieving this, our team has grown tenfold in the past two years. This has supported growth in our employer network from 70 to 700 leading employers and 3800% growth in the number of work experience places offered during the same period.  

We want to level the playing field, making sure that all young people can access inspirational opportunities and experiences to fuel their ambition.  

We are united and unique in our mission to transform lives through raising the aspirations of millions of young people every year. Each year, 1,500 senior leaders, celebrities and industry experts deliver a difference by sharing their story with students in schools and colleges in every corner of the UK. We connect employers such as Disney, The Bank of England, Spotify, PwC and almost seven hundred others to communities to provide access to the top opportunities for all across the UK. With us, you will be part of inspiring a generation to reach higher, broaden horizons and get equal access to the top.  

To keep growing our charity and our impact, we need top talent and we are committed to treasuring, developing and supporting them to thrive within their roles. 

 

Speakers for Schools Values

PASSION: 

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

 

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.

 

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 portfolio of programmes, forging 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 and Progression Programmes (and others as they develop).
• Delivering commercial income from employers, and education & training providers to meet ambitious 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 leading technology platform.
• Outreach to discount and opportunity providers, helping grow the range of discounts and opportunities for young people through our Youth Card programme.
• 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  

• Experience of business development with a variety of stakeholders and owning, managing and delivering an ambitious commercial target.
• Experience in a similar environment working with a variety of stakeholders
• Clear and concise communicator, capable of producing written content to a professional quality
• Confident liaising with and managing relationships particularly with stakeholders from all levels
• Comfort and 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
• Sociable and confident and happy building and maintaining relationships with multiple stakeholders
• Excels at organising their workload and enjoy driving work forward independently

Desirable 

• Previous experience working with HR/Recruitment/CSR/Engagement teams an advantage 
• An understanding of the UK Education System and a familiarity with careers provision within UK schools and colleges would be an advantage 
• Proficient use of the Salesforce CRM, to track relationships and ensure proper data management. 

 

Benefits offered at Speakers for Schools:

• Flexible working
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays 
• Morning of your birthday off  
• Pension scheme
• Wellbeing Programme
• Subsidised office furniture
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption package
• 3 voluntary days per year
• Perkbox
• £500 a year training allowance

 

Diversity at our core

Speakers for schools is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating discrimination.

 

How to apply:

Please apply as soon as possible submitting your CV and a one page covering letter which outlines your specific interest and ability to successfully fill this role, as well as your salary expectations and current notice period. Please note, if you do not provide a covering letter your application will not be considered.  

Appointees are subject to a successful DBS check, as contact with young people is likely.  

You must have the right to work in the UK to apply.

 

The Journey to joining Speakers for Schools: 

The closing date for this role is 23rd December 2022 at 9 AM.

Our new team member will start ASAP. 

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