Strategic Lead, Employability & Skills Programs

Orbit Group; Coventry; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbit Group is seeking an Employment & Skills Lead to drive the strategic delivery of our Better Days Employability and Skills Programmes across our communities. You will shape and oversee large-scale initiatives, building partnerships, and ensuring customers gain the skills and opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Based in any Orbit office location with travel across the Midlands, the South and the East, the role requires leadership, project management, and a commitment to tackling local

Qualifications

• Experience conceptualising, preparing, organising and delivering large-scale employability programmes.
• Strategic partnerships and employability expertise with a track record of impact.
• Coaching, mentoring or leading a team and managing project delivery timescales and progress.
• Excellent ability to write and present performance and impact reports.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage Orbit’s Better Days employability and skills programmes.
• Manage budgets across the portfolio of programmes.
• Produce reports and data on performance and impact.
• Drive best practice in advice delivery, governance and referral pathways.
• Develop new employability initiatives and partnerships and optimise referrals.
• Lead on employability offers across Orbit's geography with regional partnerships.
• Broker partnerships with external providers and employers to meet community needs.
• Provide strategic direction as a subject matter expert for Employability and Skills.

Skills

Networking

Partnership development

Project management

Contract management

Report writing

IT skills

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Orbit Group is seeking an Employment & Skills Lead to drive the strategic delivery of our Better Days Employability and Skills Programmes across our communities. You will shape and oversee large-scale initiatives, building partnerships, and ensuring customers gain the skills and opportunities to fulfil their potential.

Based in any Orbit office location with travel across the Midlands, the South and the East, the role requires leadership, project management, and a commitment to tackling local