Job title and organisation: Employability and Skills Development Assistant Manager - Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College
Salary: Scale Point 14-18 - £31,324 to £35,395 per annum
Hours: 37 hours a week, all year round - Monday to Thursday 8:30am to 16:30pm and Friday 8:30am to 16:00pm
Contract: Permanent
Location: Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College
Closing Date and Time: Thursday 6 November at 9:00 AM
Industry Placements and Employability/Skills Development at Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College.
The College is seeking to appoint a well-qualified, able, and enthusiastic individual to the full-time post of Employability and Skills Development Assistant Manager. Ideally you will be from a recruitment or business working environment, enthusiastic, confident, and self-motivated, able to instil confidence in students, staff, and external bodies alike whilst providing a full and efficient work placement service to students. You should have a track record of outstanding professional success and committed to providing the highest quality experience for all students.
This post is a new post to work alongside our Employability and Skills Development Manager to focus entirely on working with external organisations, to both build capacity and secure top-quality industry placement opportunities for our T Level students.
Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College is committed to providing all our students with a high-quality programme of careers education, information, advice, and guidance (CEIAG). We firmly believe that all students have an entitlement to such provision and recognise the key role it must play in achieving the College’s aims of fulfilling each student’s potential, providing equality of opportunity, and maintaining high standards of achievement.
The College is graded ‘Strong’ (highest level) for its contribution to meeting the skills needs across the City of Leeds and has a track record of outstanding success in working with our key stakeholders and in its delivery of industry Placements. This is an exciting time for the college as we continue to expand our T Level provision including the recent launch of T level Media.
Main Purpose of Post:
- To assist in the fostering of strong professional relationships with employers in private, public and the third sectors to maximise opportunities for T Level students.
- To secure high quality and meaningful T Level Industry Placements for all T Level students.
- To contribute to the development and implementation of an employer engagement and skills development plan to build and maintain employer relationships.
- To contribute to maintaining a database of T level employers and placements.
- To become one of the main points of initial contact for some of our key employers and students to secure T level Industry placements.
- To support the Employability and Skills Development Manager to organise and coordinate the industry placement offer across T-Level and some general work experience
- To be a highly effective conduit between employers, Heads of Department, students and parents/carers to support students to have the highest quality experience of industry placement.
- To support all employer engagement and industry-related activities across the College.
Key Tasks:
- To match each student’s needs, career aspirations and interests to an appropriate industry placement.
- To establish and maintain excellent working relationships using highly effective communication with cross-college and curriculum departments.
- To initiate new links with local/national employers and develop excellent working relationships, attending networking events.
- Develop sustained relationships with employers to further establish the high profile and respected reputation of Notre Dame across the city.
- Contribute to the outstanding aspirations of the College through the quality and range of employer relationships and collaboration with external and internal partnerships.
- To work with the Employability and Skills Development Manager to develop a regular delivery of employer led opportunities promoted to all students.
- Attend networking and other employer events to promote the college and our students, to establish new working partnerships and gain placement and work-based opportunities
- To provide regular industry placement information reports including collation and analysis of T Level student destination data, to the Employability Skills and Development Manager, Careers and Employability Manager and SLT.
- To keep abreast of new employers and developing business sectors both locally and nationally and to update Employability and Skills Development Manager and SLT as appropriate.
- Work with the Employability and Skills Development Manager to increase the number of employers who can meet the criteria for providing placements for T Levels.
- Liaise with the curriculum teams across college sharing information around placement activity, employer contacts and opportunities to promote the wider college offer.
- Carry out employer and student satisfaction surveys throughout the year, with feedback to the Employability and Skills Development Manager and SLT.
- Produce case studies to promote the benefits of hosting work placements and other work experience activities, to be used in marketing materials.
- Support employers to deliver ‘best practice’ industry placements for students, providing resources, training, and advice to employers to enable them to develop their work experience offer, including a bank of role or job descriptions for students on placement.
- To support Achievement Tutors to match each student’s needs, career aspirations and interests to an appropriate work experience, to meet employers’ expectations and to fully engage with their placement activity
- To communicate with parents/guardians/carers and employers in a professional and timely manner.
- To support the employability and Skills Development Manager in creating effective ways to promote industry placements to T level students, staff and parents/carers.
- To undertake all necessary administration related to this role including ensuring accurate records are kept and updated where needed.
- To assist the Employability and Skills Development Manager to organise post-placement celebration events, displays and rewards.
Other:
- To have regard to the principles and values expressed in the College’s Mission Statement.
- To demonstrate a commitment to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons in line with College policy
- To have full regard for the College’s Equality and Diversity and Health and Safety requirements
- To assist in cross-college support, (such as invigilation), where appropriate.
- To attend meetings in accordance with the College meetings’ schedule.
- To adhere to the Health and Safety policy of the College.
- Ensure own personal and professional development by keeping up to date with all current and new developments in work related education
- To take part in staff appraisal and development as appropriate
- To take part in the College Open Events.
- To perform such other duties as assigned by the Principal which reasonably correspond to the general character of the post and are commensurate with its level of responsibility.
The job description is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended as an exhaustive list. The job may change over time to reflect the changing needs of the College, as well as the personal development needs of the post holder.
Closing date: 9am on Thursday 06 November 2025.
It is intended that interviews will take place week commencing 10 November 2025.
For further details and an application pack please visit:
Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College and scroll down to see our live vacancies.
The College is committed to Safeguarding and promotes the welfare of young people and expects all staff, students and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check and a satisfactory Social Media check.
In promoting equal opportunities, we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK-either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
What we can offer you:
Staff and their welfare are paramount to a successful and happy college.
These are just some of the benefits offered to staff, along with some key facts:
- Free on-site car parking
- Located in the University District of Leeds and close to Leeds City Centre (easily accessible by public or private transport)
- The framework for Ethical Leadership in Education underpins everything we do
- The College has been rated again as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted (March 2022 and September 2024) and is always oversubscribed.
- The West Yorkshire Travel Plan Network which gives 12% discount on Annual Metro Cards
- Cycle to work scheme
- On-site canteen facilities, with a separate Starbucks café
- Feel good lunches - every half term (Different days on rota)
- Training and CPD
- Enhanced sick pay above statutory entitlement
- Enhanced payment for maternity, paternity and adoption leave (subject to qualifying period)
- Flu jab re-imbursement
- Various wellbeing initiatives, some staff led (i.e. yoga, knitting, College choir, Time to talk/ Mental Health and Wellbeing) + support to chosen charity of the year (voted by staff) with money raising initiatives.
- On-site College counsellor (mainly for students but staff can benefit from this or use the services of our EAP*)
- *Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured offers free and confidential advice available 24hrs, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- Various discount platforms offering savings across a broad range of categories, including retail, fitness, well-being, and more (Blue Light, UniDays etc)
- Access to Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) – Teachers only
- West Yorkshire Pensions – Support staff only
- Access to the beautiful chapel with regular services for staff to attend
- End of year College BBQ for staff + Mission and Ethos ' day, Staff Retreat Day
- Lots of celebration and fundraising reasons for cake baking (or just eating!)
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
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