Trust Work Experience & Industry Coordinator

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd in Oklahoma seeks a Trust Work Experience & Industry Coordinator to drive employer engagement and manage industry placements for learners. You will work with schools to create meaningful work experiences and ensure high-quality, safe placement opportunities across our academies.

The role focuses on implementing the national work experience strategy, coordinating with Careers Teams, and expanding partnerships with businesses to benefit students pursuing vocational and

Qualifications

• The successful candidate will have experience of working with employers and businesses and/or working in schools.

Responsibilities

• Lead on engagement with employers and develop partnerships to generate industry placements and work experience opportunities.
• Coordinate high-quality work experience and industry placement programmes with Academy Careers Teams, ensuring safety and accessibility for all learners.
• Administer work experience programmes and collaborate on innovative approaches to workplace experiences; support industry placements linked to post-16 and T Level provision.

Job description

Trust Work Experience & Industry Coordinator

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are excited to offer a rare opportunity for a passionate, dynamic and inspiring Trust Work Experience and Industry Coordinator to join our Careers Team.

The opportunity to join the Careers Team within the Trust at a time of significant development is an exciting one. We have a new, national work experience guarantee from September, which the Trust have been at the forefront of national policy on, and our Academies have ambitious post-16 vocational and technical programmes which rely on the support of employers and industry. The role holder will deliver and implement the Trust’s strategy for the modern work experience guarantee, and support Academy Sixth Form teams in managing industry placements which are relevant and aspirational.

The role will involve leading on our engagement with employers, and developing meaningful relationships and partnerships with businesses, to generate opportunities for our students to experience meaningful and high-quality industry placements and work experience opportunities. Working closely with Academy Careers Teams, you will coordinate high-quality work experience and industry placement programmes, ensuring they are safe, impactful and accessible to all learners.

The role will involve administering our work experience programmes, collaborating with Academy Careers Teams on innovative approaches to workplace experiences, and driving our engagement with businesses and industry. You will also support the delivery of industry placements associated with our expanding post-16 and T Level provision. The Employer Engagement and Partnerships Lead will be our champion for employer voice across our Trust, ensuring that our apprenticeships, careers curriculum and post-16 courses are being driven by the wants and needs of industry.

The successful candidate will have experience of successfully working with employers and businesses and/or working in schools, and a clear passion for creating life changing opportunities for young people. There is the opportunity to undertake professional careers qualifications through the Level 6 Careers Development Professional Apprenticeship as part of the role.

What the school offers its staff

The Priory Federation of Academies Trust is an established and supportive MAT. Our scale allows both flexibility and creativity in terms of career development, with permanent and secondment opportunities across our academies allowing exciting career pathways. We are determined in our mission to improve the life chances of our students and we are equally committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff. All our support staff benefit from annual appraisals, access to CPD opportunities, our Trust Employee Benefits Programme and excellent support from our HR team.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.