Job Broker - Employer Engagement

The Fedcap Group; Blackburn; Remote; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Benefits scheme £500

Cycle to Work

Pension 5% employer match

Life assurance

Health & wellbeing support

Digital gym

Job summary

Fedcap UK is hiring a Job Broker - Employer Engagement to connect young people with local employers across North Lancashire. You will build strong employer relationships, generate opportunities, and guide participants through recruitment journeys from roles to interviews and job starts.

You will work with diverse sectors, understand recruitment needs, and provide onboarding support while actively developing a pipeline of vacancies and meaningful placements.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment or employer engagement.
• Ability to build relationships with employers.
• Experience in matching candidates to vacancies.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Organised with ability to manage multiple vacancies and participants.
• Understanding of local labour markets.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with local employers across sectors.
• Generate quality vacancies, work placements, apprenticeships and other opportunities.
• Understand employer recruitment needs and culture.
• Develop a pipeline of vacancies and match participants to opportunities.
• Use creative approaches to open up opportunities.
• Support participants through recruitment journeys from roles to interviews and starts.
• Arrange onboarding and workplace support with employers.
• Conduct strengths-based vocational profiling of participants.
• Provide job searching, CVs and interview prep assistance.
• Connect participants with specialist services and community organisations.

Skills

Relationship building

Employer engagement

Networking

Recruitment experience

Account management

Communication

Organisation

Influencing

Job description

Job Description

Job Broker - Employer Engagement

Locations: Blackburn, Burnley, Preston, Accrington and Skelmersdale

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm

Salary: £28,000 - £31,000

Contract: Full-time, permanent, home-based with regular travel and outreach across North Lancashire.

Help young people take their next step into work

At Fedcap, we believe every young person should have the opportunity to build a better future through work.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming futures by connecting young people with local employers. You'll build strong relationships with businesses, identify meaningful job opportunities and work closely with participants to understand their goals, match them to the right role and support them to succeed.

If you're someone who enjoys engaging employers, creating opportunities and seeing the life-changing impact that employment can have on an individual's confidence, independence and future, this could be the role for you.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with local employers across a range of sectors.
• Generating quality vacancies, work placements, apprenticeships and other employment opportunities.
• Getting to know employers and understand their recruitment needs, workplace culture and progression opportunities.
• Developing a pipeline of vacancies and actively match participants to suitable opportunities.
• Using creative approaches such as reverse marketing to open up opportunities that may not otherwise exist.
• Supporting participants throughout the recruitment journey, from identifying suitable roles through to interviews, job starts and beyond.
• Working with employers and participants to agree effective onboarding arrangements, workplace support and reasonable adjustments where required.
• Carrying out strengths-based vocational profiling to understand each participant's skills, aspirations, experience and barriers.
• Providing practical support with job searching, applications, CVs and interview preparation.
• Connecting participants with specialist services and community organisations where additional support is needed.
• Providing in-work support to help people settle into their roles, overcome challenges and sustain employment.

What we're looking for

We're interested in people who can build relationships, spot opportunities and genuinely want to help people succeed.

You’ll ideally have experience in recruitment, employer engagement, business development, sales, account management, employability, employment services or another employer-facing role.

We're looking for someone who can:

• Build trusted relationships with employers and other stakeholders.
• Identify employer needs and turn conversations into real recruitment opportunities.
• Match people effectively to vacancies and support successful recruitment.
• Communicate confidently and influence a wide range of people.
• Network within the local business community and develop new employer relationships.
• Manage multiple employers, vacancies and participants while staying organised.
• Work towards performance targets and contractual outcomes.
• Understand local labour markets and the factors influencing recruitment.

Experience of welfare-to-work, employability, supported employment or working with people facing barriers to employment would be valuable, as would experience of working with young people, apprenticeships or skills pathways.

Above all, we're looking for someone who is passionate about creating opportunities and making a tangible difference to people's lives.

Why join Fedcap?

At Fedcap UK, we're a mission-led, not-for-profit organisation focused on improving people's economic mobility.

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make a real difference every day - helping people take steps towards employment while building lasting relationships with employers in your community.

Here’s what makes Fedcap a rewarding career...

At Fedcap, we're proud to offer a comprehensive and rewarding benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, development and work-life balance:

• 33 days' annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell additional days
• £500 annual benefits scheme to spend at over 900 retailers
• Cycle to Work scheme open all year round
• Pension scheme with up to 5% employer match
• Free life assurance worth 4x your salary
• Health & wellbeing support, including access to our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family
• Digital gym, mindfulness resources, virtual GP and more

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone is treated fairly, feels they belong, and can do their best work. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and communities, and we value the different perspectives and lived experiences they bring. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

• Fedcap Employment is a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will consider reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and, where required, in the workplace. We will not exclude a candidate with a disability unless they are unable to carry out a duty that is intrinsic to the role, after reasonable adjustments have been considered.
• We are positive about employing veterans, serving personnel, and spouses/partners and family members, as part of our commitment to the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.
• As a Ban the Box employer, we assess applicants on their skills and potential. We do not ask about criminal convictions at the initial application stage, and any relevant information is considered fairly and in line with the role.

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About Us

Mission: To create opportunities for people by designing and delivering innovative, sustainable solutions and creating measurable changes for those who are socially disadvantaged.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland delivers employability solutions across the UK to build communities through a blend of local frontline professional teams and like-minded supply chain partners, using innovative and tested ideas developed both locally and internationally.

Our service is designed to give each individual the best opportunity according to his/her abilities and needs. Our programs provide targeted employment supports to a range of underserved groups, including single parents, people who were previously incarcerated and individuals with health, mental health and/or substance use conditions.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland joined The Fedcap Group in 2018.

Website: http://www.fedcapemployment.org/