School Liaison Manager

College location: East Surrey College (Redhill) and John Ruskin College (Croydon)

Salary: £36,743 - £40,132 (Subject to qualifications, skills and experience)

Hours: Full time (37 hours/week) Monday Friday 08:45-17:00

We are seeking to appoint an inspirational and enthusiastic School Liaison Manager to work as the College s liaison with our growing number of partner schools. The post holder will be responsible for driving engagement with schools, to increase progression to the College and promote the College as an excellent vocational destination route including further and higher education.

The role will involve travelling to local schools and presenting to young people, therefore confidence and the ability to engage and motivate your audience is essential. A background in an educational environment is essential.

Working closely with Directors of Learning and local schools, you will support the development of the College s 14-16 provision, ensuring quality assurance and supporting progression onto full time programmes whilst supporting the Marketing team to ensure effective communication to schools and forward planning of events.

The successful candidate must have:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Information, Advice & Guidance (IAG) qualification (or willing to obtain)
• Excellent communication skills, working on a 1:1 support basis or with larger groups
• The ability to present in front of large audiences at school and college events
• A full, clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle that can be used for work purposes
• The ability to work flexibly as there will be some early morning and evening working required

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.