Employer Relationship Manager

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Application deadline

May 29, 2025 12:00 am

Department

Employer Engagement

Employment type

Permanent

Location

Telford College - Wellington, Telford

Salary

£39,112

Reporting to

Apprenticeship and Skills Manager

Potential interview date

Vacancy reference

VN1121

About the role

Are you passionate about building strong business relationships and creating opportunities for our students.

We’re looking for a dynamic and results-driven Employer Relationship Manager to join our team. In this role, you’ll serve as a key connector between our organization and employers, developing meaningful partnerships that support workforce development, talent pipelines, and employment outcomes.

As an influential communicator with a strategic mindset, you’ll work closely with employers to understand their hiring needs, promote our services, and match talent with opportunity. If you thrive in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment and are eager to help shape the future of employment, we want to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Promote apprenticeship and work-based learning opportunities to employers and manage the recruitment process.
Work closely with employers to understand their business requirements, skills gaps, and workforce development priorities.
Develop and maintain strategic relationships with local, regional, and national employers, ensuring the college is well-positioned to meet their training and development needs.
Drive the creation of bespoke training solutions to meet employer needs, including the development of tailored workforce development programs.
Meet key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets for employer engagement, ensuring regular progress reporting.
- (See Job Description for full details)

Skills, knowledge and expertise

Skills and expertise

A Proven experience in business development, employer engagement, or partnership management, ideally within the education or training sector.
Experience managing employer partnerships, apprenticeships, or work-based learning programs.
Ability to influence and negotiate effectively with employers, senior leaders, and external partners.–motivated and able to work enthusiastically to achieve targets without direction
Understanding of Education and Skills Funding Agency funding and Levy and non-levy employers
Knowledge of current trends and challenges in workforce development, apprenticeship standards, and vocational training.

How to Apply

We look forward to receiving your application and knowing more about your qualifications, skills, personal qualities and experience that you would bring to the role and to Telford College. Please take time to review the job description.

Please complete the online application form with details of your full employment history (since leaving school, including education, employment and voluntary work) including reasons for any gaps in employment. This should also include a statement of the personal qualities and experience you believe are relevant to your suitability for the post and how this meets the job description and person specification requirements. Your application form will be re-produced in a standard format by the system (without personal identifiers) to assist us in our anonymised shortlisting process.

Under Section 7 of SVGA 2006 it is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children. The college’s safeguarding policies are available here. Under KCSIE (keeping children safe in education) guidance the college is committed to all pre-employment safeguarding checks, including online checks and candidate history. Therefore, please note upon clicking to apply you agree for these checks to be completed.

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