Progressions Coordinator

**WORK PATTERN** - 36.25 hours per week, Monday-Friday

**CONTRACT** - Fixed-Term for 6 Months (with the possibility of extension beyond this period)

You will be responsible for:

1. Securing employment, education, and training opportunities for our clients participants and supporting them to progress. You will do this by locally securing and sharing job/training opportunities for young people.

2. The delivery of our clients Academy, in which you will deliver group employability and personal development workshops and qualifications.

3. Establishing and maintaining partnerships with referral agencies and developing further partnerships with employers or colleges in order to secure suitable opportunities for our clients participants.

4. Monitoring and reporting are essential to this role.

**Major Duties and Responsibilities:**

**Corporate Responsibilities:**

- To undertake compliance with our clients policies and procedures and business plan.

- Full participation in team and wider staff meetings, support and supervision, and personal/professional development.

- To actively promote and implement our clients Equal Opportunities policy within all aspects of the post.

- Undertake Safeguarding and Health and Safety duties, including risk assessments as required in line with our clients policy.

- Ensure compliance with our clients Data Protection Policy in the management, storage, and security of participant information.

- To undertake any other reasonably required duties as instructed by line manager or someone acting on their behalf, in addition to the role-specific responsibilities detailed below.

**Role Specific Responsibilities:**

- Overall accountability for the preparation, administration, and delivery of our clients Academy and progression service.

- Delivery of a complete employability service including job searching strategies, interview techniques, job applications, etc. and delivering group employability and personal development workshops.

- Overall accountability for supporting participants.

- Overall accountability for soft skills analysis, overcoming barriers, and assisting participants to draw up action plans. Undertaking an appropriate initial assessment with each participant using a variety of tools and methods that assist in identifying the needs of the participant.

- Overall accountability for meeting delivery team targets in relation to retention, outcomes, and sustainment.

- Evaluate and assess (formative and summative) the work of learners in relation to the qualification assessment criteria and provide timely constructive and helpful learner feedback so that learners develop the skills, knowledge, and behaviors to progress to their next steps.

- To network with external organizations such as colleges, job centers, careers centers, employers, community groups, and other relevant organizations to source and secure employment, education, and/or training opportunities for our clients participants. Also using social media and local media to raise awareness of our clients work, with support and training provided by our Communications team.

- To contribute to the development and implementation of our clients Practice Framework and to update, develop, and share sessions or workshops that are relevant to our clients contracts and funding streams.

- Overall accountability for identifying work experience opportunities and supporting participants within work experience, employment, education, or training by providing aftercare.

- Keeping up to date with labor market information, legislation, professional, and academic developments.

**Duties to Young People:**

- To promote equal opportunities at all times in line with our clients Equal Opportunities, Equality and Diversity Policy.

- Responsibility and diligence around issues or incidents that may make activity non-inclusive for participants and carrying out the necessary procedures in identifying and dealing with any safeguarding or child protection, diversity, or health & safety issues.

- Shared responsibility for the appropriate referral or signposting of participants to agencies for specialist help who require additional support needs such as housing, addiction, etc.

- Responsibility for completing all necessary paperwork for each participant on academies including organizing travel expenses, timesheets, training allowances where contractually appropriate.

- Joint responsibility with other members of the delivery team (Youth and Community Coach & Functional Skills Tutor) for the pastoral support and care of our clients young people including liaising with but not limited to support workers, key workers, social workers, DWP advisors.

- To provide First Aid cover for our clients Activity and ensure sessions are safe and enjoyable for all. First Aid training will be provided to all staff.

- Support Senior Staff to facilitate stakeholder visits to Academies and activity. Stakeholders include but are not limited to funders, politicians, ambassadors, and partner organizations.

**Teamwork:**

- Shared responsibility for inputting and maintaining M&E (monitoring and evaluation) information by capturing daily attendance, personal development information, outcomes, and sustainment and to produce reports as required.

- To work closely with Coaching and Functional Skills staff in the delivery of our clients core activity programs.

- Shared responsibility in the recruitment, supervision, organization, and training of sessional coaches, volunteers, and apprentices.

- Shared responsibility for health and safety, ensuring that risk assessments are carried out on all venues in which our clients activity takes place and that health and safety procedures and policies are adhered to.

- A flexible approach to the working pattern will be required, as there may at times be a requirement to work outside the normal working week, however, sufficient advance notice will be given and time back granted.

- Joint responsibility for the invigilation of Functional Skills examinations ensuring all awarding body and our clients procedures and policies are followed.

- Shared responsibility with Coaches for supporting young people to overcome barriers and assisting participants in achieving their individual learning plans.

- Represent and market our clients services within your region. This includes having a presence and building relationships with key stakeholders in local communities and schools. Relationship building and local networking with referral agencies and community partner projects on an ongoing basis.

- Using social media and local