Overview
Construction Employer Engagement Coordinator
Join Cornwall’s New Era of Growth — Shape Skills to build growth
The Service and Team
The Growth & Skills team in Cornwall Council’s Economy, Regeneration & Assets Service, plays a central role in driving inclusive economic growth across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We lead the commissioning and delivery of skills and employment and employer engagement activity that supports our local economy, strengthens productivity and helps ensure residents have the skills and support needed to access good quality jobs. Working closely with employers, education and training providers, and regional and national partners, the team supports delivery of the Council’s wider economic ambitions. Skills are fundamental to Cornwall’s long term good growth. Working across our Distinctive, Core and Foundation Sectors, our work ensures that investment, development and regeneration are underpinned by a workforce with the right skills, at the right time.
The Role
As Construction Employer Engagement Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in shaping Cornwall’s future construction workforce. You will lead the local rollout of the Department for Education’s FE Teacher Industry Exchange Programme, working with construction employers and further education providers to strengthen the link between industry and education. This includes supporting industry expertise into the classroom and enabling FE teaching staff to gain experience on live construction sites. This is an outward facing, relationship driven role that supports also Cornwall’s wider housing, infrastructure and economic growth ambitions.
In This Role, You Will
* Lead and coordinate delivery of the FE Teacher Industry Exchange Programme across the construction sector
* Build and maintain strong relationships with construction employers of all sizes, FE colleges and training providers
* Work with key partners including Homes Cornwall and the South West Construction Technical Excellence College
* Coordinate teaching days, industry placements and wider employer engagement activity
* Support strategic partnership working to strengthen Cornwall’s construction skills system
* Monitor activity and produce reporting to ensure the programme meets agreed targets
Working Pattern
This is a flexible hybrid role, with travel as required to attend team meetings, meet employers and partners.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
You bring a passion for working with people, coordinating activity and making things happen.
You’ll Be
* A confident communicator, comfortable engaging with employers, education providers and partners
* Well organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate delivery effectively
* Relationship focused, with a practical approach to problem solving
* Motivated by the opportunity to make a real impact on skills, education and workforce development in Cornwall
If you thrive in a varied, collaborative role and want to help shape the future of construction skills in Cornwall, we’d love to hear from you.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You’ll Get In Return
Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include
* a competitive salary.
* a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
* a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
* A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
* Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Clare Harris, Skills Partnerships & Engagement Lead clare.harris@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender reassignment status, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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