Business Development Coordinator

Job Summary by the Career Balance Team:

A training provider based in Hull is seeking a Business Development Coordinator to manage recruitment for their Traineeship and Apprenticeship programs. The role involves engaging with young people and adults, assessing learner applicants, developing opportunities for apprenticeships, and maintaining relationships with employers. The ideal candidate will have experience in recruitment and sales, excellent communication and organizational skills, and a Level 4 Information Advice and Guidance qualification. The company offers benefits such as a pension scheme, an extra day off for birthdays, and career progression opportunities. Remote working options are available.

Job Description:

Our client is a well-established, training provider based in Hull but working across Lincolnshire and East Riding, providing apprenticeship and traineeship programmes. Due to the expansion and forward-thinking direction of the company they are looking to recruit a Business Development Co-ordinator. The purpose of the role is to manage recruitment for their Traineeship and Apprenticeships.

Job Duties:

· Engage with target employed and unemployed young people and adults for relevant learning programmes

· Engagement with employers to ensure sufficient work experience placements are generated and learners are correctly placed for the traineeship programme, within required timeframes

· Undertake effective and efficient initial assessment of learner applicants

· Engagement with employers to develop opportunities for their existing staff to apprenticeships, and recruitment of new apprenticeship vacancies;

· Achievement of targets in relation to learner starts on programmes;

· Engage with a range of employers for the recruitment of apprentices, development of work experience vacancies and potential progression opportunities for traineeship programmes

· Assess employer environments to ensure compliance with health & safety, safeguarding, programme and funding requirements

· Associate all learners to relevant work experience placements, ensuring the needs of learners and employers are met, for the traineeship programme, within required timeframes

· Match appropriate applicants to apprenticeship vacancies

· Develop effective working relationships with employers, ensuring opportunities for learner progression are maximised and employers remain engaged with programmes

· Liaise with external partner organisations to support programme delivery and learner engagement, achievement and progression

· Maintain learner and employer records

· Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant funding requirements

Requirements:

· Experience of recruitment and sales, ideally within a B2B environment

· Experience of effective engagement with employers and learners

· Level 4 Information Advice and Guidance qualification, or willing to work towards

· Experience of successfully achieving targets, together with the ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines, take responsibility, use initiative and be proactive, incorporating flexibility when required

· Excellent literacy and numeracy skills

· Excellent oral and written communication skills, to produce internal and external reports;

· Excellent organisational skills

· Excellent presentation skills, including use of PowerPoint

Benefits:

· A contribution pension scheme with 7.5% employer contribution

· An additional day off for your birthday

· Employer Supported Volunteering (ESV) with paid time off to support a charity or community group/initiative/project of your choice

· Genuine career progression opportunities

If this sounds like the role for you, apply now!

Appoint Consulting is a Recruitment Business having sought agreement from their clients to find candidates for these roles, in accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Business Regulations Act 2003.

If this role is not suitable for you, we would be happy to have an informal discussion regarding any future opportunities.

While we will endeavour to respond to every applicant personally, on occasion this is not always possible, therefore, if you have not heard back from us within 14 days of applying, you have been unsuccessful.

 

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.Location: Work at Home