Outreach Officer

**Contract**:Full-time, permanent

**Working hours**:

- 40 hours per week
- Standard working hours are 9am - 6pm (with 1 hour unpaid lunch break) with the option to flex-start and end time.
- We offer flexibility to employees to balance their commitments, including medical appointments, parental or caregiving responsibilities, and personal goals.
- Closing Date 9th July

**Salary**:£26,684

**Location**:Leeds - office based in city centre

There is an average minimum expectation of 3 days travel per week across the West Yorkshire region to conduct outreach with partners.

We encourage team collaboration and expect colleagues will work from the office a minimum of one day per week. Travel for meetings and events counts towards office days.

**ABOUT GENERATION**

Generation's mission is to train, coach and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.

We are a UK-registered charity, founded by McKinsey and Company, delivering tailored programmes to recruit, train and place unemployed people into work. Through our unique approach, we also solve a wide range of employer challenges—skilled talent shortages, poor job performance, lack of diversity, and high turnover.

Generation launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand-led employment initiative. We have placed over 100,000 people into roles, working with over 4,000 employer partners to date across 16 countries and 26 professions.

Since launching in the UK in 2019 have now trained more than 3,500 people. Our work focuses on supporting those from diverse groups facing barriers to desirable employment. For these learners, we have achieved an industry-leading 70% job placement rate with learners now placed at over 800 employers.

We have secured transformative corporate funding from Microsoft, the JP Morgan Charitable Foundation, the Macquarie Group Foundation, Barclays, Blackrock, and many more. We are also the leading charity delivering under contracts from the Department for Education’s Skills Bootcamp strand. This has driven our scale to new programmes, regions and beneficiary groups.

By joining Generation UK, you will become part of an organisation committed to social impact and determined to play its part in changing the system in this context. The work is fast-paced, exciting, and innovative.

You can also learn more about our culture, directly from our incredible people - What is it like to work at Generation?

Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect, and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice. All our staff in the UK are required to undergo a DBS check.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

As our Outreach Officer in West Yorkshire, you'll be at the heart of an exciting mission - connecting people with life-changing training opportunities. You’ll be the face of Generation in the community, sparking interest, building powerful partnerships, and inspiring diverse groups to take their next big step. From local events to strategic collaborations, you'll be out there making things happen - opening doors, raising awareness, and helping learners unlock their potential.

Day to day, your role will involve getting out and about to meet our partners and the communities they serve, planning and delivering inspiring in-person and virtual events and using our powerful datasets to track and iterate on the success of our outreach activities.

Our partners include Job Centre Plus centres across West Yorkshire, local authorities and government bodies, and fellow non-profit and skills training organisations.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Learner outreach, recruitment, and admissions**:

- Build and maintain partnerships with local charities, local authorities and other partners to identify opportunities to collaborate and to support recruitment, outreach and marketing efforts.
- Organise and run events (virtual and in-person) for prospective learners and referral partners to generate enthusiasm for and understanding of our programmes.
- Support the Head of Outreach to track eligible applicant numbers and target groups.
- Ensuring participants in our programmes meet eligibility requirements set by funding partners and collect required documentation.

**Reporting and evaluation**:

- Feedback success and learnings to external partners to strengthen relationships and collect learnings for future cohorts.
- Working closely with the Head of Outreach, Director of Admissions and the Funding and Grants team to report success and evaluate learnings.
- Act on feedback from learners, employers and other delivery partners to ensure we are improving the quality of our processes, programmes and learner experience wherever possible.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of programmes; finding ways to make them more sustainable, scalable and replicabl