BAE Systems Hiring for Education Services Lead Job at Samlesbury, England Full Time

Education Services Lead

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Education Services Lead

Would you like to drive the delivery of an exciting programme of Education Services across our Air sites and bases in the UK? We currently have a vacancy for an Education Services Lead at our site in Samlesbury.

As an Education Services Lead you will be responsible for developing and strengthening key stakeholder relationships both internally and externally to enable effective delivery against our strategy. Through delivery and management of education programmes within our local communities you have the opportunity to inspire and inform young minds and their key influencers on their future choices. Working with primary and secondary schools as well as charitable organisations, youth groups and youth employment organisations you will develop strong networks utilising the STEM Ambassador network to deploy activities and programmes throughout the year.

Key deliverables include, deployment of Corporate & local business unit Education Services Programmes, in particular Kickstart, T Levels, Movement to Work, Arkwright, World of Work and Work Experience; ensuring they are delivered consistently and in line with the UK delivery model.

In this role you will have the opportunity to inspire and support the direction and choices of young people in relation to their career choices whilst in parallel are equipping our business with the future skills needed.

Your main responsibilities as an Education Services Lead will involve:

Reporting to the Head of Early Careers & Skills (Air), the role will have responsibility for the implementation of Education Services Programmes in the Air.

Being responsible for the deployment of corporate Education Services Programmes in line with the UK delivery model

Leading on the consistency and continuous improvement of Education Services across the Air sector, utilising data and analytics and ensuring innovative service aligns to future business needs

Contributing to the development of shared resources/programme content to support Education Services across the UK

Managing service delivery and content in line with the Early Careers Attraction & Recruitment strategy, ensuring a consistent approach, performance and impact monitoring

Supporting our Air sites and bases across the UK, providing priority support to sites and bases running existing or developing early careers programmes or where Air wish to develop relationships within their local community or base (Warton unit, Brough, AMA, Yeovil, Christchurch, RAF Valley, RAF Conningsby, RAF Marham, Prestwick, RAF Lossiemouth, Filton).

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential

Education or Business Professional qualified to Level 5 or above

Desirable

Proven qualification in education/ learning/ development/ charitable

Experience working within education/ learning or a youth employability setting (e.g. teaching/ careers/ kickstart, Movement to Work, NEET, youth employability)

Training & Development qualifications NVQ Level 4 or equivalent

Level 4 Leadership & Management qualifications

What we’re looking for in you:

Highly effective communicator, that is able to influence others and operationalise strategic objectives.

Effective leadership and coaching skills and highly motivated professional with experience of delivering excellence.

Location: Samlesbury

Salary: £40,000+ depending on skills and experience

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems

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If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

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As part of our Air team, you could be working at the edge of what is technologically possible, shaping the future to ensure our customers are ready to face challenges we cannot even imagine today. You could be developing and evolving the technologies that will defend the UK for generations to come and supporting our customers around the globe.

Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

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We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

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