Education Recruitment Advisor

Teleperformance SE; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment company in the UK seeks an Education Recruitment Adviser to support candidates considering a teaching career. The role involves guiding up to 200 candidates, hosting supportive events, and helping candidates prepare for teacher training applications. Ideal candidates should possess a Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and demonstrate strong influencing skills. This position allows for remote work but includes some travel within England.

Qualifications

• Strong evidence of resilience and emotional intelligence.
• Experience in contemporary teacher training courses or early career framework.
• Ability to identify improvements in working processes.
• Adaptable to frequent changes in policy direction.
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support to candidates considering teaching.
• Host events for candidates to promote teaching careers.
• Help candidates gain school experience for training applications.
• Engage in discussions within an online community.
• Offer insights on teaching realities to candidates.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and candidates.

Skills

Resilience

Emotional intelligence

Coaching or mentoring

IT literacy

Influencing and persuasion skills

Relationship building

Education

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Tools

Outlook

MS Teams

Job description

Overview

We have a temporary role as an Education Recruitment Adviser on the Teacher Training Adviser team. Our advisers work on our contract with DfE and are successful in encouraging people to consider teaching as a career and in supporting them to become more able to secure places on teacher training courses. Much of the role has a focus on offering support to a cohort of candidates by phone, email and text while working from home. There is also a need for face-to-face support for candidates at events, e.g. at specialist teacher training recruitment events and at graduate recruitment fairs.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support to up to 200 individual candidates at any time to retain and encourage an initial interest in teaching. Help them to decide on a teaching career, and take the most appropriate steps towards this. This support represents the bulk of the role.
• Host and support events for candidates to foster and grow commitment to a teaching career
• Help candidates to improve their readiness to apply for teacher training, eg by supporting them to gain school experience
• Facilitate discussions in an online community, to encourage teacher training course applications
• Share insight with candidates on what teaching is really like, helping candidates to explore their concerns, such as those relating to classroom behaviour and setting realistic expectations on what schools require of trainees, NQTs, teachers and leaders
• Enthusiasm for teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates
• Be an experienced teacher in the compulsory educational setting in England, and have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
• Be sufficiently IT literate to successfully work from home using Outlook, MS Teams, and databases
• Be willing to travel within England, with, on occasion, the need for potential overnight stays.

Qualifications

• Strong evidence of resilience, emotional intelligence and commitment to peers and candidates
• A working knowledge and experience of contemporary teacher training courses, or the early career framework
• Experience in coaching or mentoring adults
• Ability to identify improvements in working processes
• Able to adapt to frequent change, eg in policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support