Progression Coach

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom The Growth Company Full time

The Growth Company's (GC) Education and Skills team have an exciting new opportunity for a Progression Coach To provide quality careers support for young people. If you are passionate about empowering learners to achieve their full potential and thrive in their chosen careers, we invite you to apply for the position of Progression Coach. Join us in making a difference in the lives of our learners and shaping the future of our community.

As one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, we are dedicated to supporting businesses and individuals with apprenticeships, higher education, and commercial training. We help people to develop their skills across a diverse range of sectors and levels, with our work with leading businesses to ensure our curriculum boosts the career prospects of individuals and productivity of businesses.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide one-on-one coaching to learners, assessing their strengths interests and career aspirations to develop personalised action plans for academic and career progression. Completing progress reviews ensuring parents/care givers have copies ahead of open evenings.
  • Design and deliver workshops and seminars on topics such as CV writing, interview preparation, networking strategies and job search techniques to enhance learners' employability skills.
  • Offer expert advice and guidance on career exploration, industry trends, job market insights and educational pathways, helping learners make informed decisions about their academic and career pursuits.
  • Complete reviews timely ensuring career, progression pathways and aspirations are discussed, reviewed, and continually referenced throughout the learning journey.
  • Cultivate relationships with employers, industry professionals, signposting agencies, guest speakers and educational partners to create internship opportunities, well-being champions, job placements and networking events for learners.
  • Creating, refreshing, and delivering sessions around awareness, PHSE and ensuring latest trends and themes are embedded into curriculum.
  • Provide ongoing support and mentorship to learners alongside their keyworker, addressing their concerns, challenges and barriers to employment success and connecting them with relevant location specific resources and support services.
  • Maintain accurate records of student interactions, attendance, progress, and outcomes, utilise data analytics to assess the effectiveness of career development initiatives and identify areas for improvement. Completing parent/carer evenings to provide feedback to support structures around next steps planning.

About you:

  • A warm, approachable style to delivery is required to build relationships and rapport.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to negotiate with learners, managing expectations and dealing with complaints.
  • Networking and communication skills, both written and oral.
  • Flexible approach to work including willingness to travel and working occasional unsociable hours.
  • Well-developed IT skills, including an understanding of the Microsoft office suite and career development software/tools.
  • Proven ability to develop and deliver engaging workshops, presentations, and educational programmes.
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication and educational skills, with the ability to build rapport and establish trust with learners from diverse backgrounds.

Skills Required:

  • Teaching qualification – above level 4.
  • Certificate in Youth career coaching.
  • Careers Guidance Qualification Minimum Level 3.
  • PTTLS (L4).
  • Recent experience of working alongside learners with additional and or SEND requirements.
  • Previous experience in career coaching or a related field, preferably with an educational or youth development setting.
  • Strong knowledge or career development theories, assessment tools and job market trends.
  • Good knowledge of welfare to work and the customer base.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check. This will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We're supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.

GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at or call us on

All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy.

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