Student Careers Officer
Salary: £25,600 per annum + benefits
Hours: Full time (37hrs per week, all year round)
Duration: Temporary (12 month funded position)
Location: Rotherham College, Rotherham
About the Role
In this exciting role of Student Careers Officer, you will be focused on providing excellent careers, employability information, advice and guidance to a targeted cohort of students in their progression.
As a key member of our careers team, you will deliver a high level of careers information, advice and guidance supporting students with their choices regarding their career progression and set career targets to support students to positive destinations through varied initiatives.
An in-depth knowledge and understanding of the routes available, including up-to-date labour market information, is essential. You will work collaboratively within the Rotherham campus and with our external partners to advocate on behalf of students and reinforce our partnership network.
You will provide our students with the information, opportunities, and experiences they need to make decisions on future studies or employment at the end of their time at college.
This is a role in which you can genuinely change lives through offering students the support and guidance they need to help them decide the steps they need to take in order to achieve their aspirations.
You will be committed to providing excellent information, advice, and guidance on careers and employability to the targeted students, helping them to secure the very best outcomes.
You will:
* Have experience within Information, Advice and Guidance related work with students aged 14-16, 16-18, 19+, and learners with High Needs.
* Have experience and feel confident creating innovative resources and delivering to groups.
* Hold a Level 2 (or equivalent) qualification in English and Maths (or be willing to undertake). You will also have a Level 3 in Advice and Guidance (or be working towards).
* Have knowledge of qualifications within Further Education and progression opportunities available and be able to advise appropriately.
Department Info
You will report directly to the Careers Education Information Advice and Guidance Leader working as part of the Careers Team and will work with our Students Support team, referring students onto them as required, for instance, if a student is experiencing financial or emotional issues.
To promote the college, you will be required to attend open events and external events on occasion which may take place at the College main site or at external locations.
Our excellent benefits and rewards package:
* Access to local government pensions scheme
* Up to 41 days annual leave per year including closure during Christmas period
* Access to our gyms, restaurants, and salons
* Staff health & wellbeing and benefits schemes including in-house Occupational Health service
* Full, part-time, and flexible working hours available in many roles
* Parking available at all of our sites
* Fantastic career development opportunities including funding for teacher training, apprenticeships, and various other industry-recognized qualifications
* New FE teachers can also apply for grants of up to £6,000 in STEM subjects (conditions apply) through the levelling up premium payments initiative
* Recruitment Referral Scheme for all employees, worth up to £200 per referral made
What is the RNN Group?
RNN Group's main goal is to be an outstanding education and training provider, and this is at the heart of everything that we do. To help us achieve this, we are looking to recruit highly motivated, innovative, and dynamic individuals to join our existing teams. To be a part of the team at RNN Group, we will expect you to be committed to our values too:
* We are Inclusive,
* We have Integrity,
* We Deliver,
* We are One Team.
We are OFSTED Good (November 2022)
We celebrate diversity and are proud to have been recognised as Investors in Diversity for our commitment to the FREDIE (Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement) Model. This means that you would be working in a supportive environment that encourages, recognises, and celebrates effort, achievement, and cooperative attitudes. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, faith, or disability. We are also proud to be part of the Disability Confidence Scheme.
The RNN Group is proud to be part of the South Yorkshire Institute of Technology (SYIoT).
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, vulnerable adults, and young people. All new employees will be required to undertake a DBS check and other associated checks in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education Guidance.
All candidates must have the legal right to work in the UK.
Closing date: Monday 02 December 2024 at 12:00 Noon. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted within a week of the closing date.
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