Sales and Recruitment Officer We are looking for a Sales and Recruitment Officer (with a focus on the Construction Department) within our Apprenticeships business unit. Do you have a natural sales and recruitment flare who’s looking for your next challenge? As a support colleague you’ll go into the Local Government Pensions scheme, a generous holiday allowance of 33 days not including Bank Holidays (you’ll even get a couple of extra days at Christmas for efficiency days). Here’s some other really great benefit’s too, i.e. Costa Coffee on site, Free on site Gym at Beaufort Road, onsite bakery products at Tameside One, dining experience at The Restaurant at Tameside One, retail discounts, cycle to work, simply health cash plan and a saving club via Manchester Credit Union. Here’s the standard bit: You’ll be responsible for providing central sales and recruitment services for apprenticeships and other College contracts managed through the apprenticeships team to existing and new employers / customers. Provide a service for day to day enquiries from young people and employers, college staff, subcontractors and outside bodies in an efficient manner. You’ll also be responsible for apprenticeship vacancy generation, the recruitment of apprentices and customers for contracts managed through the College’s Apprenticeships team. What you’ll need: - Enthusiasm, resilient and highly motivated with Literacy and Numeracy to at least Level 2, you must hold a relevant level 3 qualification or equivalent experience within sales, customer service, account management or similar area of work. Relevant experience employer engagement in relation to sales and recruitment for apprenticeships/work based training. About us: Tameside College has an excellent reputation and this is a real opportunity for you to make a difference in people’s lives. We’re based in Ashton-Under-Lyne Greater Manchester in a diverse and vibrant further education college that offers a wide range of course including A level and advanced level vocational study programmes, Apprenticeships and adult courses up to degree Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience. We believe in excellence and we back that up with high expectations, a superb working environment (as part of the Vision Tameside £100 million accommodation strategy) and outstanding teaching. We also believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification, important though that is. This is why we aim to give learners every opportunity to develop their full potential in a supportive and friendly environment. Tameside College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment. Employment at Tameside College is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check. Tameside College will meet the costs associated with this. Please note Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 guidance requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted candidates. This is to enables us to identify any incidents or issues which we might want to explore at interview with you. Once shortlisting has taken place, this search will be carried out for all candidates who are invited to attend an interview. Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. Subject to volume of applications, we may decide to close the vacancy early. Come join us on our journey to outstanding! Recruitment Agencies: We are not utilising the service of recruitment agencies for this vacancy and will accept direct applications only. Any CV’s forwarded for this vacancy will be treated as a gift and not subject to your terms and conditions.