Employer Engagement Manager
Salary: £28-34,000 pa
Hours: Full time (open to job split or flexible options)
Duration: 14 month contract
Reporting to: Director of Programmes
Location: London Bridge / Field Based
Women Like Us
Women Like Us is a multi-award winning social enterprise that supports parents to find flexible, part time work they can fit with family life. We run a range of online, community and central programmes offering advice, support and access to part time jobs for parents looking to return to work or progress into their next part time role.
Role Purpose
To co-ordinate the delivery of a pilot service that will trial a variety of strategies to enable parents in low wage part time roles progress into higher salaried part time roles, and to more widely source jobs suitable for our clients on community projects.
The postholder will provide a free recruitment service to employers, promoting the business benefits of part time and flexible working, offering advice on part time job design, and promoting vacancies to parents supported by the project. This may be done by working directly with employers on filling specific roles, or through outreach, training and relationship building to help employers create part time vacancies where they have not existed before. The postholder will work with low income mothers who are both in work but in low paid roles or out of work but ready to apply for vacancies with support from the Advice team.
We aim to build an evidence base to help shape future policy around how to engage employers in opening up more quality vacancies to flexible and part time hours, as a way to raise families living standards and move them off benefits. This learning will be shared widely across the Timewise Foundation, of which Women Like Us is a part, and with a range of organisations that the Foundation works with.
Responsibilities
- Based on individual clients needs, to outreach and engage employers in target areas / sectors who have part-time vacancies that would offer progression and a higher income to clients.
- To 'sell in' individual/cohorts of candidates to employers with suitable flexible and part time roles
- To promote the business benefits of part time and flexible work to employers in London, and the role that the Timewise Foundation can play in providing recruitment solutions to them, building existing relationships and establishing new ones
- To identify opportunities to promote the service and the business benefits of part time and flexible working through business networks and public events, and to deliver seminars on flexible job design when required.
- To support employers in designing and recruiting for part-time and flexible roles
- To contribute to the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of this pilot by providing data on employers engaged, activities and vacancies created
Key Performance Indicators
- Client progressions into work as a direct result of employer engagement
- Jobs created and promoted to WLU clients
- % of roles filled from those advertised
- Services delivered in line with Women Like Us values and behaviours
Targets to be discussed in line with project requirements
Key Experience, Skills and Behaviours
Experience
- Strong recruitment or sales experience either within the welfare to work market or the recruitment market.
- An understanding of public sector welfare to work/employment and skills provision
- An understanding of the needs of parents and the barriers to returning to work encountered by our client group
- Intermediate Excel, Word and database knowledge
- Project management, monitoring and reporting
- Ideally, experience of delivering training and / or seminars
Skills
Team working – ability to participate as a full member of team and proactively contribute to team success
Interpersonal – ability to communicate effectively with others and establish effective relationships with clients and employers
Sales – ability to sell services to businesses and candidates to employers
Written and Verbal Communication – ability to write concisely and professionally and to communicate ideas and services clearly and succinctly
Influencing/Persuading – Ability to promote new / different concepts such as part-time/flexible working, recruitment/consultancy services
Business / Strategic Awareness – ability to understand wider environment in which the organisation operates and to understand impact/implications of longer term decision making
Behaviours
Please note that the following are not intended to be comprehensive descriptors but rather to provide an indicator of effective performance in relation to the values.
Passion
- Generates new ideas for the organisation to improve operations or service delivery
- Demonstrates drive and enthusiasm in response to new challenges
- Demonstrates a high level of energy at work
- Acts as positive ambassador for the organisation
- Articulates the organisation’s mission and impact, clearly and effectively
Integrity
- Maintains a high standard of work when under pressure
- Establishes credibility with a wide range of different clients
- Demonstrates sensitivity to people while delivering results
- Respects the different perspectives of diverse stakeholders/clients/teams
- Takes account of ethical issues when making commercial judgements
- Demonstrates understanding of the issues and needs of women returners including those of a variety of socially excluded groups
- Takes an open and honest approach to dealings with colleagues and clients
- Demonstrates willingness to challenge in order to achieve an ethical outcome
Professionalism
- Presents a positive attitude to a busy working environment where tasks and systems need to be developed and updated on a regular basis
- Adapts style/approach as appropriate to new situations/challenges
- Helps the team to cope with and manage new or difficult situations so as to ensure effective resolution
- Anticipates problems and identifies potential solutions
- Articulate and confident in dealing with diverse people at all levels of the organisation
- Takes a solution orientated approach to problems