Iag Advisor

**Job description**

**Role:

- IAG Advisor**

**Location:

- Greater Manchester**

**Salary:

- £26-28,000**

**Overview**

The role of the Careers Service Advisor is to inspire customers to make well informed, appropriate choices about their future education, training, and career. A Careers Advisor will build strong relationships with customers and identify their skills and abilities through assessment to be able to inform them of their options. They will work to improve the self-awareness and self confidence in customers by highlighting their strengths and suggesting areas for development, positively setting realistic and achievable goals.

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- To provide participants with Information Advice and Guidance on progression routes relating to individual participant need
- To ensure that participants are advised of appropriate progression opportunities within the local area
- To proactively work with participants to ensure positive outcomes and contractual targets are achieved and that the programme is a success
- Develop an understanding of specialist signposting services in the local area/region, building knowledge in areas such as priority sectors, SEND, NEETS, and over 50’s
- Produce a detailed individualised SMART action plan for each participant on the programme, adhering to all contract quality and compliance guidelines whilst always maintaining 100% accuracy
- To meet contractual targets within specified timelines agreed at performance review meetings
- Be a meticulous record keeper, ensuring every progression step is agreed, documented, completed, and signed as completed with the relevant evidence in place
- Ensure relevant and accurate signposting of services to overcome specific barriers faced by participants
- To advise customers on specific education, training, and careers in their local area, and match them to realistic, achievable relevant areas of progression
- Complete relevant customer documentation in line with company procedures
- To carry out inductions and the basic assessment of the customers to identify their transferable skills, strengths, and experience
- To provide one to one support for our customers in exploring the local labour market
- To discuss and examine in appropriate detail, local and more general employment and training opportunities that may be available including any funding options they may be entitled to
- To work with employers, training providers and other agencies to strengthen the service we provide to our customers
- To assist customers to produce a realistic action plan leading back to work, including considering obstacles to the successful achievement of the plan and how to overcome them

**Essential Requirements**
- Level 2 English and Maths as a minimum
- Minimum of Level 4 qualification in Careers, Information, Advice and Guidance.
- A commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusivity and ‘Access for All’
- Ability to organise own workload and maintain detailed records/reports
- Experience of successfully achieving deadlines and working without close supervision
- Experience delivering one-to-one careers advice including information advice and guidance
- A good working knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical locations.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £26,000.00-£28,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person