Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)
Salary: £35,294 - £41,969 per annum
Closing Date: Friday 10th January 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 20th January 2025
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Jobs and Education Manager to join our CP Works Team based in Bradford, someone with a history of careers advice provision.
About us
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.
Together with our partners, we support over 16,000 young people each year.
You will be joining the Centrepoint Works Team to support young people to take their next steps towards employment, by providing tailored advice, developing employability skills, and providing a wide range of training such as functional skills.
We are looking for a manager who has strong careers advice experience. You will support the day-to-day function of the service provision across all our Centrepoint North based regions (covering Bradford, Barnsley, Sunderland and Manchester).
About you
The successful candidate would ideally have experience in delivering Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).
- Management experience
- An effective communicator both verbally and in writing, with a natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations with all stakeholders at all levels.
- IT skills necessary to undertake all administrative and reporting requirements.
- Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
- Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
- Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
- Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
- Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.
You will have strong knowledge and understanding of the importance of working in an equal opportunity and anti-oppressive framework and a willingness to put this into practice.
What you’ll be doing
- successfully support and manage the performance and outcomes of CEIAG staff.
- ensure we retain a high quality of work that meets Matrix Quality Standard.
- strive to fulfil all contracts/funder requirements.
- ensure the team are compliant with the required paperwork/systems to reflect all updates within an academic year.
- Provide face to face and telephone liaison at all levels.
- Maintain strong relationships with all relevant external agencies and partners, and the Quality and Compliance team.
Safeguarding Checks
- Appointment to this post will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory criminal records check, satisfactory completion of references which covers a 5 year period and satisfactory checks of right to work documentation.
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Jobs & Education Manager click ‘Apply’ now!