School Coordinator

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**Job Title**: DYW School Coordinator

**Number of roles**: 2

**Role 1 - 28 hours**

**Salary -**: £20,093 28 hours p.w. part time salary will be pro-rated - school term time with salary paid over 12 months of the year

**Location(s)**:Dingwall Academy but with a requirement to work across other Secondary Schools within the Inverness and Central Highland area, when needed.

**Role 2 - 24.5 hours**

**Salary -**: £17,581 24.5 hours p.w. part time salary will be pro-rated - school term time with salary paid over 12 months of the year

**Location(s)**:Alness and Invergordon Academies but with a requirement to work across other Secondary Schools within the Inverness and Central Highland area, when needed.

This is a fixed-term role. Scottish Government Funding is currently confirmed to March 31st 2025.

**Responsible to**:
The DYW School Coordinator reports to the DYWICH Operations Manager.

**Responsible for**:
No line management responsibility.

**Overall Purpose of the Post**:
The purpose of the role is to use your industry background and knowledge to develop and implement a programme of employer engagement aimed at enhancing the school curriculum and increasing pupils’ career awareness and skills development in order to support a positive and sustained destination for young people beyond school.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Employer Engagement**
- Foster and establish partnerships with businesses, other learning providers e.g. colleges, and third sector organisations that can enhance and impact on curriculum delivery and design.
- Increase the number of businesses working directly with the school to improve opportunities for young people.
- Work alongside the regional DYW group to ensure that support is targeted at groups aligned to DYW KPIs.
- Work alongside Teachers, SDS Careers Advisor, MCR Pathways Coordinators (where applicable) and wider relevant partners to ensure that employer offers are targeted at the pupils who would benefit most.
- Work with key local partners and stakeholders to provide industry-led activity which will support pupils post school transition and raise awareness of Yong Person Guarantee services.
- Ensure that DYW is appropriately highlighted and embedded across each stage of the curriculum in the senior phase, across broad general education and at points of key transition. Utilise available data to ensure employer engagement interactions are aligned and informed by pupils’ preferred occupation, route and anticipated leave date, whilst working to support an enhanced awareness of the current and emerging labour market growth and demand sectors across the region and nationally.

**Partnerships and networks**
- Liaise with the School’s Senior Leadership Team, Curriculum Leads and other relevant staff to ensure strategic direction of the DYW agenda is reflected within the curriculum.
- Support teaching staff by identifying meaningful industry relevant experiences and qualifications by facilitating appropriate and relevant partnerships.
- Liaise with relevant staff who deliver work based learning, for example Foundation Apprenticeships (Level 4/5/6) Work Experience and Career Ready Programmes, to enhance employer involvement
- Support the delivery of all DYW and wider programmes to promote opportunities within the wider school community i.e. pupils, teachers, parents/carers.
- Work with partners to support embedding standards within education of key policy documents

**Monitoring and review**
- Reporting of school & employer activity and data associated with DYW, while providing evidence of activity at key stages throughout the year.
- Work in partnership to increase participation across the whole school in work inspiration and work experience activity with particular reference to those furthest away from the labour market.
- Undertake regular review and evaluation of programmes and activities associated with DYW.

**Leadership**
- Lead on delivering the KPIs set out by the funding aligned to the DYW School Coordinator role
- Develop a school DYW working group that supports the DYW objectives within the school and those included within the school improvement plan.
- Be the lead in engaging with relevant resources and platforms to optimise the opportunities available to young people and educators and manage arrangements to enable these opportunities.
- Work as a part of a DYW Coordinators network, influence partnership groups and the DYW Regional Team to support the development of projects & resources.
- Use your industry knowledge to generate creative and innovative approaches to delivery of DYW

**The role also includes any other duties as appropriate to the post and changes to grant funding requirements.**

The role will involve working closely with one, or possibly two schools, depending on the contracted hours allocated. To ensure that we make effective use of our staff resource, there may be a requirement to support colleagues in other schools and in the cor