Apprentice Recruitment Coordinator

Apprentice Recruitment Coordinator

£25,657 pro rata, per annum

Are you looking for a career where you can change lives? In this role working as part of the Commercial and Business Development Team, you will have an outstanding opportunity to positively enhance learners'' lives through apprenticeships arranged by Blackburn College.

Blackburn College has nearly 700 people employed in a vast range of roles and feels more like a community than a workplace, and this sense of collaboration is just one of the benefits of working here. We strive to make our employee community a welcoming, caring, and enthusiastic one, fuelling ambition with opportunities and support to help us all achieve our personal and professional goals.

We are proud to offer the full range of qualifications that students need to fulfil long and valuable careers. With purpose-built facilities, excellent grades, expanding catchment area, and purposeful vision. We believe that attending college is about more than achieving a qualification and aim to give all learners an opportunity to develop their full potential in a friendly and supportive environment. There has never been a better time to join us!

The Role

In this role you will be responsible for coordinating activities to support Apprenticeship Recruitment. You will interview and assess applicants, match applicants to vacancies, provide information on employer vacancies and apprentice applicants to support the Business Development Team in maximising the number of apprentice applicants who are successfully recruited.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for some with a good standard of education to Level 2 or equivalent in business related subject (including English and maths) and who ideally also has up to date knowledge of Apprenticeships.

You should have experience of developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders including employers and experience of co-ordinating, managing and monitoring a complex workload.

You will need to have excellent oral and written communication skills and a high degree of personal drive and motivation to be able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Blackburn College expects all its employees to be committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.