Early Careers Support Coordinator

Renishaw; St Davids; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Renishaw is seeking an Early Careers Support Coordinator to guide and advocate for early careers cohorts. This role involves liaising with stakeholders, providing support, and ensuring successful experiences for graduates and apprentices. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including a hybrid working policy and a commitment to employee development.

Benefits

9% non-contributory pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Subsidised onsite restaurants

Free parking

Cycle to Work scheme

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Life Assurance policy

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in supporting early careers programmes.
• Understanding of different learning styles.
• Experience in preparing reports.

Responsibilities

• Be the primary point of contact for early careers colleagues.
• Provide pastoral support to early careers colleagues.
• Organise placements and ensure structured training plans.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Proactive approach

Relationship building

Job description

Salary £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

Working pattern Office based at Renishaw sites Mon to Thurs, option to WFH on Fridays dependent on work commitments

Location Miskin, south Wales

As an Early Careers Support Coordinator, you will be the liaison between internal and external stakeholders to ensure the effective delivery of our graduate, apprentice, and placement programmes. This role involves direct interaction with learners, their line managers, training providers, and other relevant parties. You will also evaluate and track progress against established plans and milestones, providing necessary support and guidance.

The primary purpose of this role is to support, guide, and advocate for our early careers cohorts during the duration of their programmes, to ensure a positive, inclusive, and successful experience is achieved.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Be the primary point of contact for early careers colleagues, ensuring a supported and structured experience.
• Provide pastoral support to early careers colleagues, assisting with queries and identifying interventions where necessary.
• Meet regularly with early careers colleagues to review progress and development areas, support and guide through challenges, and celebrate successes.
• Prepare information on early career cohorts where performance intervention is required and provide it to the Early Careers Manager for action and closure.
• Organise placements and ensure structured training plans are in place and met.
• Support, guide and check End Point Assessment documentation for apprentices and up skilling staff
• Maintain accurate records of early careers colleagues, ensuring timely tracking of progress and compliance, using databases and established processes.
• Support line managers and other stakeholders to deliver on their duties, including provisions applicable to young or vulnerable learners.
• Build relationships with all early careers’ colleagues and stakeholders across the various business locations and sites.
• Conduct timely reviews with training providers, monitoring all aspects of apprenticeships, including off-the-job training and qualifications progress.
• Establish effective connections with apprentice training providers and industrial placement universities to guarantee well-organised learning experiences.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams to align early careers programmes with business needs and workforce planning and support the continual improvement of all Renishaw early careers programs.

Person specification

• Effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage high volumes of work and multiple tasks at a time, often within tight deadlines
• A motivated and proactive self-starter with a passion for developing others
• Diligent and detail-orientated, able to demonstrate clear decision-making capability and take responsibility for outcomes
• An agile and flexible approach to tasks, able to change priorities at short notice
• Effective communication and influencing skills
• Patient, supportive, with a genuine care for learners’ and their success
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively in a wider team
• Capable of establishing strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels of the business

Key requirements

Essential

• Proven track record in supporting the delivery of early careers programmes and pastoral care for learners, including giving feedback in a formal and informal setting
• Understanding and practical experience of different learning styles and abilities
• Ensuring inclusivity among all stakeholders
• A good understanding of the content and purpose of apprenticeships, academic and vocational qualifications, and their delivery and assessment approaches
• The ability to coach others in how to support early careers learners, such as through objective setting and performance management techniques
• Experience of preparing reports and using report dash boards in databases
• A full UK driving licence as travel to all sites and apprentice providers will be required

Desirable

• Experience in using LMS/reporting systems to effectively manage learner progress, build action plans, and keep relevant stakeholders informed
• An EPA assessor or a NVQ assessor qualification
• An Engineering or IT technical background to support EPA portfolio review and submissions (desirable not essential)
• A Mental Health First Aider qualification (training will be given)

Benefits

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, car sharing scheme and 24 hour fitness centres.

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.

If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 524600 or [e-mail].