Part Time Careers and Progression Advisor

Part Time Careers and Progression Advisor

Fixed Term, Part Time

£23,344 to £26,011 Per Annum. Full Time Equivalent

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: Thursday 21st November 2024 at 11.59pm

Please note that this is a fixed term contract / secondment opportunity for a period of 12 months and is a Part Time role, offering 0.5 (18.5 hours per week) Full Time Equivalent.

An exciting opportunity to join this new team. The Careers and Progression Advisor works in a customer-facing role, actively engaging with future and existing learners at ACL to support them in achieving their goals and move into positive destinations including further learning, volunteering, or employment. Working Countywide but with a specific remit for Mid Essex.

There is also an opportunity for this to be a job share.

Interviews: W/C 9th December 2025

The Opportunity

Adult Community Learning (ACL) is ECC’s provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents. ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter, or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances. The service focuses many of its programmes and activities on the hardest to reach communities within Essex. ACL learners have access to a diverse range of accredited and non-accredited courses which encourage creativity, healthy lifestyles, social inclusion, and engagement. The Career and Skills Progression Advisor assists the Quality and Compliance Team in a customer-facing role, actively engaging with future and existing learners at ACL to support them in achieving their goals and move into positive destinations including further learning, volunteering, or employment.

Accountabilities

• Provide high quality and impartial information, advice and guidance to existing and potential learners including bespoke provision for ACL learners who are actively looking for work, using effective referral processes and signposting to both internal and external support.
• Facilitate self-directed learning opportunities within ACL centres as well as frontline support to learners accessing face to face, online and blended learning, using digital devices and platforms such as Microsoft Teams.
• Raise learner aspirations, identifying individual needs, and providing support to participate in learning opportunities, gain employment, or progression in work.
• Develop and maintain high quality information resources for learners and stakeholders, both in centre and online.
• Establish and deliver innovative ways to support ACL staff to access resources that will support learner progression, including up to date with local, regional, and national initiatives including local labour market intelligence.
• Work to meet the requirements of the Education Inspection Framework and Matrix Standard, ensuring a high-quality learning experience for our customers.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance practitioner, with a relevant qualification at Level 2 or equivalent by experience.
• Well-developed organisational skills with experience of working in a team and the ability to organise own workload and work to deadlines.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area, including the adult learning sector.
• Experience of working in a customer-focussed environment with excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with a wide range of audiences.

Desirable:

• Experience of coaching and mentoring.
• High level working knowledge of IT and in particular Microsoft packages including Teams, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Ability to collect data, interrogate it and provide evaluative reports based on an analysis of the findings.

Please note that the job role requires you to be mobile throughout an operational area. Therefore, the post holder will need to have a driving licence and access to a vehicle, or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means.

To read more about us please visit: ACL Essex or Economy, Investment and Public Health

Why Essex?

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email daniel.warner@essex.gov.uk

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