Education Recruitment Advisors

Teleperformance Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education support organization is seeking an Education Recruitment Adviser to encourage prospective teachers and provide guidance throughout the teacher training application process. Successful candidates will have a strong teaching background with Qualified Teacher Status. This full-time role offers a competitive salary of around £35,000 per year, with the need to travel within England and sometimes stay overnight.

Qualifications

• Must have Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• At least 1 year of teaching experience.
• IT literacy to work from home successfully.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one support to candidates interested in teaching.
• Host candidate support events.
• Facilitate discussions in an online community.

Skills

Teaching background

Influencing skills

Relationship building

IT literacy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Tools

MS Teams

Outlook

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.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A successful teaching background, having taught in England and must hold Qualified Teacher Status
• Enthusiasm for a teaching young people in a school setting
• Outstanding influencing and persuasion skills
• An ability to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates

The Role

• 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
• 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, e.g. 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

Essential Criteria

Successful candidates must:

• 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.

Desirable Criteria

Successful candidates may have:

• 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
• Have proven ability to be adaptive to frequent change, e.g. in the policy direction of the work or emphasis on different areas of support
• Able to identify improvements in working processes

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 17 months initially

Salary: Circa £35,000.00 per year

Education:

• Bachelor's (required)
• Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Teaching Qualification (QTS)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road