Business Engagement Executive

**Salary**:
£27,500 per annum plus PRP

**Job type**:
Full Time, Permanent

31 March 2025

**Job overview**:
**Job Title: Business Engagement Executive**

**School / Area: World of Work**

**Salary: £27,500 per annum plus PRP**

**FTE: 1 FTE**

**Permanent**

**Creating Great Futures.**

At Croydon College Group our staff are passionate and committed to achieve the very best outcomes for our students. We believe it is through our people that an excellent student experience will be delivered, and this will have a positive impact in our local community. Our visions and values ensure that we put our students first and value our staff as our greatest asset.

We are seeking a highly motivated business engagement executive with a passion for sales, apprenticeships and education to drive business engagement and our ambitious mission to meet skills needs in the Borough and beyond. The School /Department is an exceptional place to work, with staff working collaboratively to ensure the very best outcomes for our students.

The Business Engagement Executive will play a crucial role in sourcing, establishing, developing and maintaining relationships with employers to support Croydon Colleges ambitious growth plans. This role extends to engagement with employed apprentices, learner find and recruitment services and securing high quality work placements for students.

Knowledge of the skills landscape and a meaningful understanding of the wider social-economic context of the need to bring employers and learners together. Knowledge of local labour market opportunities and of local/national trends. Knowledge of working in a sales and target driven environment. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing to a variety of audiences in a variety of settings and situations. Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise, set and achieve own targets without direct supervision.

Apart from our great location, our wonderful staff and positive culture, we also offer a range of other staff benefits, including generous annual leave and defined benefit pension schemes. We also value staff development and have 7 days a year planned for staff development, including elements of team development, socialisation and staff wellbeing.

**Application Closing Date: 31st March**

**Interview / Selection Date: 9th April 2025**

**About**Croydon College**:
**Croydon College**
- College Road, Croydon
- Surrey
- CR9 1DX
- United Kingdom

+44 208 6865700

Croydon College is one of London’s larger further education institutions and provides an extensive range of courses to its cohort of over 8,000 students.

Situated in one of Britain’s largest commercial centres, the College plays a central role in the Borough, working closely with the
local authority to meet the skill needs of the local population. This includes the University Centre, Croydon with courses validated by the prestigious University of Sussex.

The student body at Croydon is very diverse. There is a high proportion of learners from ethnic minority backgrounds and a substantial number have experienced much of their education overseas. Although Croydon is a suburban borough, it contains wards that have high levels of social deprivation. The College also draws many students from neighbouring inner city boroughs. The College is proud of this diversity, which it serves effectively with no equality gaps for any significant group.

**The curriculum**

including both apprenticeships and NVQs.

The curriculum offer is updated to meet the needs of individuals and employers. In addition to work-based learning referred to above, there is ‘A’ Level provision, a large suite of BTEC diplomas at three levels, a wide range of NVQs from levels 1 to 4 and a large ESOL programme.

The higher education programmes are in the areas of art and design, business, human resource management, law, education, childhood studies and social work.

The College also has a range of courses for 14-16 year olds.
University Centre, Croydon

Croydon College has been offering Higher Education Programmes since the early 70s and is the largest provider of HE between London and the South coast as well as being amongst the largest HE in FE provision in England.

The offer caters to two distinct markets: firstly, full time students, many of whom are more mature than standard entrants, have non-standard or vocational qualifications, and are often the first in the family to enter HE; and secondly, those already in work looking to update and upgrade their skills and qualifications. There are currently 1200 students studying on higher education programmes at the University Centre and achievement rates are high. HE provision at Croydon last year received
the highest outcome possible in its inspection by the QAA.

**Great facilities**

The College has two buildings on its Croydon site - Fairfield and Barclay Road. The buildings are ideally situated right in the heart of Croydo