Outreach & Employer Liaison Officer – GLA NEET

Location: South London Boroughs

Contract: 12 months Fixed Term

Salary: £24,500

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Groundwork London is a leading social and environmental regeneration charity.  We deliver over 500 projects each year aimed at supporting people to stay in education, gain new skills and secure employment; reducing our environmental impact through energy efficiency, waste minimisation, reuse and recycling; and engaging communities and enterprise in improving their environment.

Our Youth, Employment and Skills Programmes deliver bespoke services to increase the prospects of young people and adults in order for them to move into sustainable employment, training and educational opportunities.

We are seeking to recruit an Outreach/Employer Liaison Officer to support the Team Leader and Programme Manager in developing and maintaining relationships with referral partners for candidate attraction and employers across South London with the aim of securing employment roles and opportunities for clients.

This role requires excellent relationship building skills and a proven track record of developing portfolios of partners to work with to ensure that our NEET young people have multiple opportunities to progress on with their journey.

You will be required to have demonstrable extensive experience of networking and building strong external relationships, experience of making initial contacts including cold calling and you will have a good understanding of some of the barriers faced by our NEET young people. We welcome candidates with experience either within the Welfare to Work Sector or from a Recruitment Consultancy background.

You will also be able to progress and maintain positive relationships with employers,  customers, funders, providers and partners.

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Job Description & Person Specification

Application & recruitment monitoring Form

Please send your application and recruitment monitoring form quoting reference 802/ELO to londonjobs@groundwork.org.uk

For further information or to discuss the role further please contact Nicola Byrne at nicola.byrne@groundwork.org.uk or by telephone 07808 898651

Closing date for applications: 16th July June 2021

Interview Date: w/c 19th July 2021 (via Zoom or Teams)

Appointment to this role is subject to an enhanced records check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Groundwork London is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.