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Sector: Transport and Logistics
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail!
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country.
We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
Brief Description
We have an exciting opportunity for an Early Engagement Client Partner to support our continued growth to build a future skills pipeline of talent into the business. In this hands-on role, your challenge will be to inspire young people, particularly those from under-represented groups to ensure Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) careers is seen as a viable career choice for younger people. You will take ownership in the planning and delivery of our national STEM programmes, from work experience, school education programmes, events, campaigns and digital offerings.
About the role (External)
This role sits in the Capability and Skills Development team, which forms part of our central Human Resources team. Our aim is to provide a focus on the future to partner, influence and educate the business and wider industry, to forecast and close the skills gap in rail. We provide Strategic HR expertise and advice in the areas of early careers schools engagement, skills, strategic workforce planning and employee development.
Who are we looking for?
This role is ideal for someone passionate about early careers development and has experience of delivering outreach initiatives around early careers schools engagement. You should demonstrate knowledge of safeguarding, working with young people, volunteer recruitment, planning and delivering events and education programmes. We are looking for someone who is organised and possesses a creative approach to problem solving and initiating improvements.
A significant part of the role is to engage with a variety of stakeholders internally and externally, who support the delivery of our early career programmes. This is a vital role for Network Rail to support our continued growth and will be instrumental in helping us deliver successful outcomes and to build our diverse pipeline of talent into the business. This is a varied and exciting role and will involve travel to different events and offices and will require overnight stays.
What Does an Average Day Look Like?
No day is the same! You will be planning and delivering a wide range of early careers outreach initiatives, managing tasks from event logistics, recruiting volunteers, creating lesson plans, writing copy to promote the events to a wide range of stakeholders, attending careers fairs or delivering STEM sessions in our STEM Lab in Milton Keynes or one of our regional offices.
A significant part of your day will be supporting colleagues, from advice about organising work experience placements, safeguarding, supporting colleagues in the regions to equip them with the resources and knowledge to deliver outreach in schools.
If we are running an event, then you could be delivering a STEM activity or talking to young people at a careers fair or attending one of many events where we exhibit like the Big Bang Fair which attracts thousands of young people, or hosting young people in our offices on work experience or attending an insight day. You will be inspiring young people to come and join the rail industry, promoting our exciting hidden roles in rail or routes into the industry through placements, apprenticeship and graduate schemes or an entry level role.
Essential
* Knowledge of early engagement, Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) interventions, the target audience and stakeholders.
* Strong project management skills demonstrating evidence of planning and delivery of a wide range of STEM school programmes and events.
* Knowledge of developing and adapting age-appropriate STEM lesson plans and curricula for various age groups, ensuring alignment with educational standards.
* Experience working with education partners to create hands-on learning, interactive and exciting learning experiences. Experience of implementing best practice resourcing solutions to drive a value-added service.
* Proven ability to identify and develop effective working partnerships and gain buy-in from external partners.
* Proven experience of working with business areas to identify, develop and implement appropriate resourcing solutions to meet their talent requirements.
* Evidence of transitioning new projects into business as usual.
* Experience of building engagement and capability with internal stakeholders. Ability to develop high quality, trust-based relationships, and work collaboratively, internally & externally with colleagues, and clients.
* Experience of working collaboratively across a resourcing environment with a good working knowledge of resourcing policies, processes and systems.
Company
Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.
From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.
We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.
We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.
We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.
Your health, wellbeing and benefits
We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.
We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.
We have a range of benefits including:
* 28 days annual leave entitlement.
* My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
* A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
* Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
* A range of pension schemes.
* 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.
What Diversity and Inclusion means to us
‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.
Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.
Disability Confident Leader
Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.
Find out more about our recruitment process here.
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