Employer Solutions Consultant (Recruitment)

Salary: £31k

Location: Office-based role Brighton (BN1 2RA) Mon-Fri (9-5pm)

Who We Are

Fedcap is a not-for-profit organisation committed to improving people’s economic wellbeing. Delivering a range of employability programmes and services, we passionately believe that good work is part of a healthy life. In the past five years, we’ve supported more than 35,000 people across the UK back into work, helping families get out of poverty and improving their quality of life. We’re part of The Fedcap Group, a pioneering US-charity formed in 1935.

Your Role

The Business Development Consultant (Recruitment) provides a pivotal and valued service within the team by supporting the sustainable employment of disadvantaged people within our communities. The Employer Solutions Consultant builds and maintains external relationships with employers and our customers by focusing on matching skillsets and values with local employment opportunities. Ideal for anyone with sales, business development, account management or recruitment experience.

Your Responsibilities

• An advocate for Fedcap and the Restart Scheme, embedding a strong understanding of the benefits of sustainable employment and how we can support local businesses and our customers cohesively. This will be achieved through a collaborative and entrepreneurial approach.

• Providing employers with high-quality and tailored services, including recruitment, with a variable focus on business development, sales and candidate preparation dependent on the employer.

• Engaging with local businesses and employment initiatives to develop a portfolio of live vacancies.

• Supporting customers in developing their skills and confidence in obtaining new sustainable employment, including candidate preparation prior to interview or job start

• Identifying employment and other work-related opportunities with employers through marketing candidates directly into employers.

• Delivering performance against agreed sales, service and quality KPI’s.

• Supporting candidates to become self-sufficient in job search activity, through adopting coaching and mentoring approaches and working with small groups.

Your Skills and Experience

• Able to embrace our company values which are Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation.

• Experience of business development, account management, sales and meeting targets

• Experience of working in a customer focused and service delivery environment

• Knowledge of the local regional and national labour market

• Understanding of employer’s needs, experience of training needs analysis (TNA’s) and organisational needs analysis (ONA’s), translating these in to fit-for-purpose programmes and services

• Knowledge of legislative employment regulations including safeguarding.

Our Inspiring People

People are always the focus of what we do at Fedcap. And our people are dedicated to inspiring confidence in our customers so they can believe in themselves and a better life for their families. They’re hard working and focused on delivering for our customers because they care and understand the important role they play in their customers’ journeys to a more secure, healthier and happier life. Driven by our strong values and sense of purpose, our inspiring people have formed a diverse and inclusive community.

Your Benefits

As well as receiving dedicated health and wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 employee assistance programme for you and your family, we’ll provide you with very clear stages of accredited development and learning. Not only that, qw offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Minimum 33 days’ holiday entitlement and a pension contribution up to 5%

• Monthly benefits scheme worth up to an additional £500

• Free life assurance cover, totaling four times your annual salary

• And much more

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Fedcap Employment is committed to applying equal opportunities at all stages of recruitment and selection, in line with its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy in addition to our duty under the Equality Act 2010 to have due regard to the need to eliminate discrimination; to advance equality of opportunity.

Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer and as such, any candidate with a disability will not be excluded unless the candidate is unable to perform a duty intrinsic to the role, having considered reasonable adjustments. Reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process will be made to ensure that no applicant is disadvantaged because of their disability.

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