Restart Employer Engagement Consultant

at  Shaw Trust

“Shaw Trust promotes team spirit, inclusiveness and it is an organisation where everybody is somebody. I am proud to be part of this great organisation.”
At Shaw Trust we believe everyone has the right to live a decent and dignified life and an opportunity for rewarding work. We are a social purpose organisation challenging inequality and breaking down barriers to enable social mobility.
For us being part of the solution is about creating the conditions for this to happen, advocating and delivering services that make a real difference. Working in partnership not competition, we are part of an eco-system of purpose-led organisations, striving for a fairer, more equal society centred on opportunity for all.
Purpose
Restart is a DWP provision delivered by Shaw Trust across Birmingham supporting people who are currently unemployed for 6 months plus to find suitable and sustained employment.
Shaw Trust is delivering Restart as part of Serco supply chain to provide a high level service provision for up to 12 months of specialist support, that includes personal development, breaking down barriers and offering a multitude of opportunities to move in to work.
The Employer Engagement Consultant is an important role for the success of Restart. You will use your commercial engagement, sales and recruitment skills, knowledge and experience to engage with local employers to generate vacancy opportunities through the hidden jobs market and secure interviews and job offers for our participants.
You will work closely with Employment Consultants within your multi-disciplinary team to understand participants needs and skills to then be able to generate opportunities with employers across the region. This role is a very sales and target orientated role to ensure we are generating the relevant amount of opportunity for the people we work with.

YOU WILL HAVE:

Proven experience of meeting and exceeding
Experience of engaging and gaining commitment from employers, local authorities, health service providers and voluntary sector organisations.
Experience of proactively selling services to businesses
Good Knowledge of the local labour market
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