Our Vision, Mission & Values
OUR VISION: A society where everyone, regardless of background has equal opportunity to achieve long-term professional and personal success
OUR MISSION: To prepare talented students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds for career success.
OUR VALUES: We value team work and champion diversity in all its forms, including diversity of thought. We demonstrate empathy and passion in everything we do. We act with integrity; communicating openly and provide a collaborative and rewarding environment with continuous personal and professional development opportunities for all.
Overview
SEO London Finance & Corporates Programme team oversees the delivery of education and training programme for students across 6 different industries – investment banking, asset management, insurance, corporates, technology and consulting, supporting 100s of students into work opportunities and providing tailored support. We are looking for 6 month placement to cover an internal secondment and the role would suit a recent grad, waiting to secure a full time grad role in 2025.
Role Description
The role of a programme coordinator is ensuring the smooth running of all student related events. This will include having a full understanding of all the SEO-London programmes; understanding the relevant industry that the programme supports; how these fits into the SEO-London organisation and using this knowledge to liaise with students and client/partner firms to run, organise and market successful events. In turn this role will be responsible for using data to run reports to show the impact of each programme. In coordination with the programme manager will make recommendations for possible changes and ideas to further support the student experience. The role will also ensure a seamless and professional level of customer care to all students.
Accountabilities
DAY TO DAY DELIVERY OF EVENTS
Responsible for the overall administration all student events, with specific responsibility to ensure student communication is exceptional. Including event management, student and partner communication and coordination of all the relevant stakeholders, along with posting roles on opportunities page and weekly newsletter
STUDENT MANAGEMENT & QUERY HANDLING
1. Responsible for the relationship management of the students - including the ability to understand needs, resolve issues and anticipating and creating a strong relationship on behalf of SEO-London
2. Responsible for managing student query escalations and to identify where there are opportunities to improve communication, marketing, or the type of events
3. Responsible for managing the programme inbox (where applicable)
4. Responsible for identifying creative and innovative ways to connect, educate and train students.
5. Provide oversight of cv support, screening, and recruitment preparation
6. Responsible for attending campus events and representing SEO-London professionally with knowledge and enthusiasm
7. Organise mentoring and buddying allocations
QUALITY ASSURANCE
8. Responsible for ensuring that all information relating to the events and student data is managed within the GDPR guidelines and is updated in Salesforce effectively for tracking purposes. Responsible for running reports to track and monitor events from the CRM
Required qualifications
9. University degree (any discipline) or
10. Any relevant internship/work experience
Skills and experience
We are looking for applicants who have some demonstrable experience in some of the following skills and will be willing to learn and develop others:
11. Project Management/ Organisation skills
12. Understanding or experience of marketing and comms
13. Stakeholder management
14. Having a keen interest and knowledge about the industries SEO-London operates in, along with having a working knowledge of the student lifecycle (both school and University)
15. Business writing skills
16. Diversity and inclusion knowledge
17. Database experience and analysing data
18. Strong understanding of employability skills required by students to be job market ready
19. Microsoft (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - ability to create & edit documents in word, creating spreadsheets, tables & running and analysing pivot tables in excel; along with the ability to manage outlook and create PowerPoint slideshows.
20. Ability to use Teams and Zoom to communicate and collaborate.
21. Demonstrable communication and listening skills
22. Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team
23. Empathic approach to working with others
What we offer?
24. Salary: £26000 annually
25. Annual Leave: 28 days + Bank Holidays
26. Flexible working - 2 days in the office
27. Benefits: Employee Assistance Programme, Private Health Insurance, Discount to Nuffield Gyms via Private Health Care Cycle To Work Scheme and more…
Closing date for applications
17/11/2024
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply as soon as possible. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis.
Equal opportunities Statement
As part of its recruitment policy, SEO London intends to ensure that no prospective or actual employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, class, disability, age, religious belief or political persuasion or is disadvantaged by any condition or requirement which is not demonstrably justifiable.
Safeguarding
All posts at SEO London involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently.
Right to work
Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot provide sponsorship or consider overseas applications.
About us
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, Ltd. (SEO London) is a UK-registered charity delivering superior educational, training, and mentoring support to young people from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds. SEO London programmes focus on pre-professional development (Schools programmes), career access (Careers programmes) and long-term success within elite global industries (Alumni programmes). Launched in 2000, SEO London has subsequently delivered two decades of transformative leadership in the UK workplace diversity and inclusion segment. Thousands of SEO London alumni now work in the UK and global corporates and firms, many holding senior leadership positions.