The Service & Team:

The Careers Hub is a small team working with real purpose and impact to drive impactful change in the way young people from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly think about their future working lives. We're here to help employers develop high quality and appropriate outreach activities and to support schools and colleges to deliver modern, equitable, quality and fit for purpose careers provision.

We work with other colleagues to develop and apply Cornwall's Workforce and skills Strategy; supporting the growth of the Cornish economy, it's an exciting time to join an established and forward thing team as we focus on four priority areas next year:

To drive Continuous Improvement in Careers Education, aligned to the Gatsby Benchmarks
To introduce the national equalex work experience guarantee
Ensuring young people can access and progress through the full range of academic and vocational pathways
Encourage employers throughout the region to complete the Employer Standards assessment.

The Role:

We are offering 2 roles; 1 of which will help us to deliver our ambitions to see high quality and equitable modern workplace experiences across our businesses and education institutions.

As an Enterprise Coordinator, You will build relationships with Careers leaders in Schools, Colleges and a network of business contacts with the aim of helping them to develop high quality careers provision for young people. You will plan and manage your own time; working from home, the office, visiting businesses and attending key networking events and meetings. You'll need to be organised and able to communicate with senior leaders from both education and business, with excellent IT skills. You will help others consider and develop new ways of working to support the best possible outcomes for schools, businesses and young people. Whether you have a back ground in education, careers or the private sector, we'd love to hear from you.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working pattern:

Working hours are 37 hours per week, part time and flexible working options are available including such as compressed hours, term-time only, hybrid work arrangements, and other alternatives.

What you’ll need to succeed:

Good Communication skills
Able to work independently to manage your time and tasks
Focused on intent, quality and impact
To Confidently learn and apply comms and IT skills
Be a team player

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you’ll get in return:

Cornwall Council’s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

· a competitive salary.

· a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

· a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

· A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

· Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here.

We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact caroline.childs@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as ‘Application’ on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.

Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council

We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.

Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.

Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It’s a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.