Business Support Officer - Employer Engagement - The Education People

Role Responsibility

The Education People is owned by Kent County Council and is a one-stop shop for education services, to help you improve learning, wellbeing and children’s development. We support the full age range from early years to young adults, with over 800 products and services available specific to education needs always. Our people are here to support your people and ensure you receive a high quality product and get value for money.

Whilst this post is advertised via KCC your employment will be with The Education People.

An exciting opportunity for the position of Business Support Officer – Employer Engagement    has arisen in The Education People Skills & Employability Service. The focus of this Service is to ensure young people progress successfully into post 16 education and beyond.

This is a TEP7 equivalent full-time position.

The post holder will provide high quality business support across a range of employer engagement activities including providing administrative support to the employer engagement groups (www.kentandmedwayguilds.co.uk), the Careers and Enterprise Company (www.careersandenterprise.co.uk) and a range of careers related projects. Activities will include, data analysis, report collation, meeting management and minute taking and direct liaison with key internal and external stakeholders.

The role requires someone with excellent organisation and communication skills, a good knowledge of social media and the ability to use own initiative to resolve problems and prioritise workload.  Ideally the candidate will also have knowledge of apprenticeships and other programmes to support young people as they will be called on to answer questions from a range of people from time to time.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th January 2021.

Contact Details

Mike Rayner, Principal Post 16 Lead, 03000 416599

About the Company

The Education People is owned by Kent County Council and is a one-stop shop for education services, to help you improve learning, wellbeing and children’s development. We support the full age range from early years to young adults, with over 800 products and services available specific to education needs always. Our people are here to support your people and ensure you receive a high quality product and get value for money.

Whilst this post is advertised via KCC your employment will be with The Education People.