EmploySE1 Co-ordinator

To promote the benefits of local employment to companies in the three BID areas, and position local employment as a key component of the businesses’ CSR activities. Equally, to highlight the role that EmploySE1 can play in facilitating this local recruitment for them in a tailored, effective and responsive manner.
To increase the number of committed employers registered on the website and the number of local job vacancies, apprenticeships, or work experience placements posted on the website. When appropriate, to work towards the possibility of securing “guaranteed interviews” with employers, or “exclusivity periods” (having the posting only on EmploySE1 for a number of days/weeks before the business tries other recruitment routes).
To liaise between local employers and agencies to ensure the process is working smoothly, and to change program structure and strategy as necessary.
The post also entails forward planning and development, event organisation and marketing, project management and administration, and approaching appropriate stakeholders to forward the EmploySE1 agenda in Southwark.
*Please note that Waterloo Quarter BID also covers part of Lambeth

Key responsibilities:
-Employer outreach and engagement; securing registrations onto EmploySE1 website
-Liaison between employers and agencies
-Coordination of inter-BID and steering group meetings
-Organisation and promotion of EmploySE1 events
-Creation of marketing materials, as necessary
-Forward planning and development

Required skills and competencies:
-Background in human resources, marketing, social sciences, economic development, or corporate responsibility
-Confident communicator by phone, email and in person
-Motivated to provide excellent customer service
-Able to identify the features of EmploySE1 that would make it attractive to a range of businesses
-Understanding of local employment issues, the new Work Programme, and Southwark economic development would be an asset
-Well-organised, able to prioritise tasks to meet targets and deadlines
-A self-starter, able to work on his/her own initiative
-An efficient administrator with good Word, Excel, email and web skills
-Awareness of BIDs an advantage
-Awareness of CSR issues an advantage

About EmploySE1:
The EmploySE1 project was launched in January 2011 by the three Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the Southwark - Better Bankside, Waterloo Quarter• and Team London Bridge. Employ SE1 is an innovative project that helps match local jobs with local people, with a view to creating more local employment in Southwark.
The EmploySE1 website provides an online mechanism for businesses to register and upload their (mainly entry-level) job vacancies to www.employ-se1.co.uk, committing in the process to a ‘local employers accord’.
Publicly funded, free-to-employer recruitment agencies, frequently working with clients who are long-term unemployed, sign up to a charter mark that commits them to certain standards of service and can then submit appropriate candidates to employers via the same website.
The project helps businesses in the three BID areas to recruit local people easily and completely free of charge. The pilot phase of the project demonstrated that businesses employing people who live locally often experienced better attendance and lower absence rates as result. Since March 2011, 30 employers have signed up to the program.