School Liaison Officer

School Liaison Officer

College location:       John Ruskin College (Croydon) and East Surrey College (Redhill)

Salary:                       £25,816 – £27,369 (Subject to qualifications, skills and experience)

Hours:                        Full time (37 hours/week)

We have recently have an exiting opportunities arise within our Cross-College School Liaisons department for an School Liaison Officer.

In this role you will work very closely with the Head of School Liaison and Marketing department to represent both East Surrey College and John Ruskin College to potential students within local schools.

You will be responsible for driving engagement within the local community, focusing on local Schools as well as the adult community, in order to increase progression to the College and part time opportunities. You will be the key contact at John Ruskin College, working to develop relationships and opportunities in the community to promote the College as the leading vocational option.

Working closely with the curriculum Heads of Department and local schools, you will also support the development of the College’s 14-16 provision, ensuring quality assurance and supporting progression onto full time programmes.

The successful candidate must have:

• Excellent communication skills, working on a 1:1 support basis or with larger groups
• The ability to present in front of large audiences at school and college events
• A full, clean driving licence and access to your own vehicle that can be used for work purposes
• The ability to work flexibly as there will be some early morning and evening working required
• Working with School Liaison and Marketing to promote the College group

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of an excellent pension scheme, life assurance, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of sending your CV, unfortunately you have not been selected for the position.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population.  We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment.  Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.