Business Centre Manager – Employability/Restart Permanent

KM Recruitment is a specialist UK wide recruiter for the Skills and Employability sectors.

Job Title: Business Centre Manager – Employability/Restart

Location: Centre Based – Kent

Salary: up to £38,000 (Depending on skills and experience)

Type: Full Time, Permanent

Duties:

• Support new staff members through action plans that have been developed during their induction programme, ensuring that they achieve early productivity success and pass their probationary period.
• Daily performance management of a team of Employment Advisor’s, Employability Tutor’s and Recruitment Consultants who are responsible for supporting unemployed individuals into employment.
• Ensure your team have a clear understanding of their measurable Targets / KPI’s, and effectively manage their performance and productivity to ensure these are achieved.
• Ensure effective relationships are maintained with internal and external stakeholders (fund holders; referral sources; partner organisations etc.).
• Prepare and deliver presentations to the business and for partner, stakeholder and community events.
• Develop and review Continuous Improvement Plans to ensure ongoing development of the business and its ability to meet contractual obligations and standards, as required by Ofsted etc.
• Carry out regular observations of activity, coaching and ongoing support. 
• Address under-performance and set out clear corrective actions for improvement.
• Monitoring of vacancies / employment opportunities for unemployed participants and ensure that vacancy generation is in appropriate occupational areas and at a sufficient level to meet caseload requirements.
• Plan and monitor In-Work Support activities and ensure that participants who are identified as at risk of not sustaining employment are identified and supported accordingly. 

Essential Criteria:

• Must hold strong leadership and management experience, ideally within the employability sector though this is not essential. 
• Experience of managing a team towards the achievement of set targets.
• Knowledge of the local labour market and ability to develop strong relationships with referral partners and stakeholders
• Ideally have up to date knowledge of employability/welfare to work programmes.
• Excellent people management and performance management skills
• Proven experience of managing budgets and working towards/achieving targets.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

Please note:
KM Recruitment receive a high number of applications for each role advertised and although we would like to we are not always able to deliver feedback to unsuccessful candidates. If you have not been contacted within 4 days then unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest and keep an eye on our website for future opportunities.