Employer Solutions Consultant

**Salary: £30,000**

**The Role**

The Employer Solutions Consultant (Recruitment) provides a pivotal and valued service within the team by supporting the sustainable employment of disadvantaged people within our communities. Building and maintaining external relationships with employers and our customers by focusing on matching skillsets and values with local employment opportunities. Ideal for anyone with sales, business development, account management or recruitment experience.

**You will **
- Be an advocate for Fedcap and the Restart Scheme, embedding a strong understanding of the benefits of sustainable employment and how we can support local businesses and our customers cohesively. This will be achieved through a collaborative and entrepreneurial approach.
- Engage with local businesses and employment initiatives to develop a portfolio of live vacancies.
- Understand the local employability market including growth sectors and share knowledge and best practice with your peers, customers and stakeholders.
- Deliver performance against agreed sales, service and quality KPI’s.
- Managing the co-ordination of a response to employer's requirements following identification and qualification of employer needs.
- Identifying opportunities for the development and growth of 'employer accounts' through following sales process, including qualifying opportunities and escalation.
- Managing the communication channels and preparation between local businesses and our customers throughout their individual recruitment processes.
- Maintain and share accurate information on local opportunities that can be utilised by the wider business in order to support our customers, develop business opportunities and celebrate our successes.

**Person Specification**

**About you **

Can you embrace our company values which are **Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation?**

**Experience, Knowledge and Qualifications**
- Ability to embrace our company values which are **Kindness, Respect, Integrity, and Innovation**:

- Experience of business development, account management, sales and meeting targets
- Experience of working in a customer focused and service delivery environment
- Knowledge of the local regional and national labour market
- Understanding of employer’s needs, experience of training needs analysis (TNA’s) and organisational needs analysis (ONA’s), translating these in to fit-for-purpose programmes and services
- Knowledge of legislative employment regulations including safeguarding.

**Key Competencies**:

- Adaptability
- Communication
- Results focused
- Relationship & rapport building
- Resilience
- Quality & compliance.

**What's in it for you?**

**...a rewarding career that makes a genuine difference to people’s lives.**
- You won’t work on weekends or bank holidays
- A monthly benefits scheme worth £500 with access to over 900 retailers
- A cycle to work scheme that is open all year long
- Laptop and mobile phone for every employee
- Employee assistance programme (EAP). A telephone service offering various support services including emotional support, stress helpline amongst others.
- The opportunity of an Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP) qualification for all employees
- A two-week Induction and training programme
- Company annual leave, including a buy/sell scheme
- Free life cover
- Pension with a 4% match from Fedcap

**Additional information**

**To learn more about our recruitment process, our Disability Confident Scheme and Access to Work please **click here.

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion**

**Disability confident employer and Access to work**

As a Disability confident employer, we work in partnership with other organisations’ to underpin the governments aspiration to support disabled customers into work. This includes but not limited to making reasonable adjustments and providing specialist equipment to those who need it so they can work in a comfortable working environment.

**Veterans and service personnel**

Fedcap is positive about employing veterans and service personnel spouses or family members as part of our commitment to upholding principles of the Armed Forces Covenant.

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**Mission**:To create opportunities for people by designing and delivering innovative, sustainable solutions and creating measurable changes for those who are socially disadvantaged.

Fedcap Employment and Fedcap Employment Scotland delivers employability solutions across the UK to build communities through a blend of local frontline professional teams and like-minded supply chain partners, using innovative and tested ideas developed both locally and internationally.

Our service is designed to give each individual the best opportunity according to his/her abilities and needs. Our programs provide targeted employment supports to a range of underserved groups, including single parents, people who were previously incarcerated and individuals with health, mental health and/or su