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Business Centre Manager - Employability/Restart

KM Education Recruitment Ltd
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 22 days
Location

Dartford, Kent DA4 9EA

Salary

£30,000 - £36,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • KM Recruitment is seeking a Business Centre Manager for the Employability/Restart program based in Kent.
  • The position is full-time and permanent, offering a salary of up to £38,000 depending on skills and experience.
  • Candidates should have strong leadership and management experience, ideally within the employability sector, though this is not essential.
  • The role involves managing a team of Employment Advisors, Tutors, and Consultants to support unemployed individuals, while ensuring performance targets are met.
  • Applicants should possess excellent organizational skills and experience in managing budgets and achieving targets.
KM Recruitment is a specialist UK wide recruiter for the Skills and Employability sectors.Job Title: Business Centre Manager – Employability/RestartLocation: Centre Based – KentSalary: up to £38,000 (Depending on skills and experience)Type: Full Time, PermanentDuties:
  • Support new staff members through action plans that have been developed during their induction programme, ensuring that they achieve early productivity success and pass their probationary period.
  • Daily performance management of a team of Employment Advisor's, Employability Tutor's and Recruitment Consultants who are responsible for supporting unemployed individuals into employment.
  • Ensure your team have a clear understanding of their measurable Targets / KPI’s, and effectively manage their performance and productivity to ensure these are achieved.
  • Ensure effective relationships are maintained with internal and external stakeholders (fund holders; referral sources; partner organisations etc.).
  • Prepare and deliver presentations to the business and for partner, stakeholder and community events.
  • Develop and review Continuous Improvement Plans to ensure ongoing development of the business and its ability to meet contractual obligations and standards, as required by Ofsted etc.
  • Carry out regular observations of activity, coaching and ongoing support. 
  • Address under-performance and set out clear corrective actions for improvement.
  • Monitoring of vacancies / employment opportunities for unemployed participants and ensure that vacancy generation is in appropriate occupational areas and at a sufficient level to meet caseload requirements.
  • Plan and monitor In-Work Support activities and ensure that participants who are identified as at risk of not sustaining employment are identified and supported accordingly. 
Essential Criteria:
  • Must hold strong leadership and management experience, ideally within the employability sector though this is not essential. 
  • Experience of managing a team towards the achievement of set targets.
  • Knowledge of the local labour market and ability to develop strong relationships with referral partners and stakeholders
  • Ideally have up to date knowledge of employability/welfare to work programmes.
  • Excellent people management and performance management skills
  • Proven experience of managing budgets and working towards/achieving targets.
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills.
Please note:KM Recruitment receive a high number of applications for each role advertised and although we would like to we are not always able to deliver feedback to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not been contacted within 4 days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest and keep an eye on our website for future opportunities.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.