Employer Engagement Manager

Breaking Barriers; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A nonprofit organization in Camden Town is seeking an Employer Engagement Manager to enhance employer outreach and partnerships. The role involves cultivating relationships, supporting recruitment pipelines, and improving program processes to align with labor market demands. Ideal candidates will have strategic vision and hands-on experience in employer engagement, aiming to establish a robust and sustainable engagement function.

Responsibilities

• Lead employer outreach and partnership building.
• Design operational processes for effective collaborations.
• Map and cultivate employer relationships.

Job description

Overview

The Employer Engagement Manager (EEM) will play a critical role in ensuring refugees supported by Breaking Barriers access meaningful opportunities that align with client needs and labour market demand. The postholder will lead employer outreach and partnership building in priority sectors and embed consistent systems and processes that make employer engagement coordinated and impactful across the organisation. The EEM will support pathways, work placements, recruitment pipelines and workshops by ensuring employer input is actively embedded where relevant. This is a strategic, hands-on role. The successful candidate will map and cultivate employer relationships, secure employer input into sector pathways, workshops and recruitment initiatives, translate labour market intelligence into programme improvements, and design the operational processes that enable Programmes and Corporate Partnerships to work together effectively. You will operate in a matrix environment, collaborating closely with the Programmes, Corporate Partnerships and Client Services teams but will not hold direct line-management of delivery staff. The role is set up to be ambitious but achievable within 12 months, with a priority to build tested, repeatable employer engagement practice that can form the foundation of a permanent employer engagement function if/when funding allows.