Wigan Life Centre College Avenue Wigan WN1 1NJ Salary: Grade 7, 30,296 - 33,945 per annum 37 hours per week Temporary until July 2025 to cover maternity leave Previous applicants need not apply Your role: This exciting role plays a critical part in ensuring the success of a wide range of interventions to support employment and skills pathways for local residents. You will be working with a variety of stakeholders including young people, high priority young people (for example care leavers), local employers, training providers, council departments and key partners such as DWP and Wigan & Leigh College. You will play an integral role in the success of our Future Apprentices for Business (FAB) grants programme, taking a lead on the FAB talent pool, as well as supporting and coordinating other programmes that are designed to achieve employment outcomes for residents. About you: We are looking for a well organised, caring and enthusiastic individual that has the confidence and skills to make this exciting role a success. You must be highly motivated, innovative and committed to changing the lives of local people. You will be able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills across a range of stakeholders, building rapport and positive working relationships as you go. You will need to have good project management skills, be flexible in your approach to work and motivated to work independently to achieve positive outcomes. You will demonstrate the Be Wigan behaviours of positivity, accountability, courageousness and kindness. About us: Wigan Council has been voted Overall Council of the Year at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations. Part of the Skills and Enterprise service, we support local businesses and residents by developing employment pathways to create and fill more job opportunities. Our innovative approach helps to find local solutions for our employers, whilst changing the lives of our residents for the better. This role will entail a mix of office and remote working. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations. Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home (My Place), the office (Our Place) or the community (Your Place). We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for TeamWigan. Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. To be appointable in this role you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK. If this right to work is on a temporary basis, please contact the recruiting manager to discuss further, prior to submitting an application. If you are unsure, please visit the below link to check you qualify to apply. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) For further information, please contact Matthew Stockwell matthew.stockwellwigan.gov.uk. Interview date: Thursday 14th November 2024 This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child barred list check. The employer is committed to safeguarding. To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below: