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Location: Leeds (Hybrid working with travel into offices and to referral partners in Leeds)

Salary: £ 26,500 to £ 28,600

Contract: Full Time; 40 hours a week- (9 AM to 6:00 PM)

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  The successful candidate must be based in Yorkshire, with a preference for those based in or near Leeds

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you ready to use your recruitment and outreach skills for a meaningful causeWe are seeking a confident, dynamic, and self-motivated individual to join our team as an Outreach Officer in Leeds. At our organisation, we are passionate about making a positive impact in the community by providing valuable training programs to those who need them the most.As Outreach Officer, you will play a crucial role in supporting the recruitment of learners to our training programs. Your responsibilities will include raising awareness of Generation's programs, building strong relationships with local partners, and engaging with diverse audiences to recruit learners who will benefit from our programs.In this role you will build and nurture relationships with partner organizations, including Job Centres, local authorities and charities. You will also engage with service users, particularly unemployed individuals, to generate referrals to our skills boot camps utilizing your excellent communication and influencing skills to effectively convey the value of our programmes.We think the successful candidate will be confident and outgoing demonstrating strong interpersonal skills & communication and influencing abilities. Your entrepreneurial spirit to identify fresh outreach opportunities and passion for making a positive impact in the community will make you successful in this role.

Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice.

All our staff in the UK are required to undergo a DBS check.

ABOUT GENERATION

Generation's mission is to train, coach and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.

We are a UK registered charity, founded by McKinsey and Company, delivering tailored programmes to recruit, train and place unemployed people into work. Through our unique approach, we also solve a wide range of employer challenges—skilled talent shortages, poor job performance, lack of diversity, and high turnover.

Generation launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand-led employment initiative. We have placed over 76,500 people into roles (many of whom have suffered some form of adversity), working with over 11,000 employer partners to date across 17 countries and 26 professions.

Generation UK&I is currently running training to employment programmes in the West Midlands, London, Manchester, Ireland, Leeds and Scotland. We run a range of tech bootcamps as well as programmes supporting people into healthcare and the Green sector.

By joining Generation UK&I now, you will become part of an organisation which is determined to play its part in addressing both of these challenges for people in the UK and Ireland over the coming months and years.

Find out more at www.generation.org

RESPONSIBILITIES

Learner outreach, recruitment and admissions

1. Conduct recruitment and outreach work to advertise our programmes to people in our target groups to generate applications and enrolments, with the overall aim of generating 30 eligible applications from your outreach work for each programme.

2. Build and maintain partnerships with local charities, job centres, local authorities and other partners to identify opportunities to collaborate and to support recruitment, outreach and marketing efforts.

3. Organise and run events (virtual and in-person) for prospective learners and referral partners to generate enthusiasm for and understanding of our programmes.

4. Support the Senior Programme Manager to track use of the learner recruitment budget and keep it on target.

5. Support the Senior Programme Manager to plan the outreach strategy in your region.

6. Ensuring participants in our programmes meet eligibility requirements set by funding partners

Reporting and evaluation

1. Working closely with the Senior Programme Manager, Regional Director, Director of Admissions and Operations & Data manager to report data required by funding partner.

2. Act on feedback from learners, employers and other delivery partners to ensure we are improving the quality of our processes, programmes and learner experience wherever possible.

3. Contribute to the ongoing development of programmes; finding ways to make them more sustainable, scalable and replicable across the UK & Ireland.

4. Help develop Generation’s understanding of the barriers to employment faced by diverse groups in the UK & Ireland, and continually adapt our delivery model to better address these barriers.

Requirements

ABOUT YOU

1. Confident people-person who enjoys building relationships, and communicating persuasively.

2. Motivated by meeting and exceeding targets.

3. Comfortable with cold outreach and engagement with the ability to connect with a range of audiences

4. Ability to build rapport with potential learners, to show empathy and a supportive attitude

5. Able to interpret and utilise data to inform decision making

6. Demonstrable energy and enthusiasm for our mission and work

7. Demonstrable interest in supporting people from under-represented backgrounds

8. Sound judgment and the ability to react logically when faced with issues

9. Resourceful with a high-level of problem-solving ability

EXPERIENCE

1. You have delivered or significantly contributed to recruitment, outreach, marketing or sales campaigns.

2. You have at least 1 year experience in a role that demonstrates your ability to build external relationships and rapport with partners

3. You have organised and managed in-person and virtual events and/or projects.

4. You have managed partnerships and have working relationships with external third parties.

5. You have experience working to strict deadlines and targets in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable working independently.

Benefits

At Generation, we're changing the lives of many individuals, and that in itself gets us out of bed! Here are a few other benefits you'll experience working with the UK team:

• Purpose and social impact in the heart of your work;
• Opportunity to make your mark - you'll have a lot of autonomy to bring the Generation blueprint to life in a way that makes sense for your region;
• Opportunity to get involved with a range of activities and varied projects - we're a small team, so there are lots of opportunities to get involved in projects across the whole organisation;
• We offer Flexible and remote working to accommodate everyone's preferred working pattern/preferences and unique needs.;
• WFH set up offer of support of £300 to help you make your working-from-home setup comfortable and efficient;
• Professional Development is a priority for Generation and employees and you can access to up to £1,000 towards your learning & development per year. This support is accompanied by up to 5 days of training days/ study leave per year to enable your development activities.

A fair chance

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.

We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.