As Area Manager, you'll lead, coach and inspire a team of Job Brokers who are focused on one key goal: helping young people move into quality, sustainable employment. Your team will work directly with employers to generate vacancies, placements and apprenticeships, build strong employer partnerships and connect young people with the right opportunities. You'll be responsible for creating a high-performing remote team culture, driving KPIs and employment outcomes, developing your people and ensuring the highest standards of customer service and programme delivery. This is more than a management role. It's an opportunity to lead a team that can change young people's lives. What You'll Be Doing • Leading, coaching and developing a geographically dispersed team of Job Brokers to achieve performance, quality and employment targets. • Building a high-performing remote team through regular coaching, performance reviews, feedback and development. • Driving employer engagement and vacancy generation, ensuring your team builds strong relationships with employers across the region. • Using performance data and insight to identify opportunities, address underperformance and continually improve results. • Building strong relationships with Jobcentre Plus, employers, training providers and other stakeholders to maximise opportunities for young people. • Ensuring young people receive high-quality, personalised support and are matched to sustainable employment opportunities. • Promoting innovative approaches to employer engagement, including reverse marketing and creating bespoke opportunities. • Ensuring compliance with contractual, quality and operational requirements while maintaining an excellent customer experience. What You'll Bring • Proven experience leading and developing teams in a target-driven environment. • A natural coach who can motivate people, build confidence and unlock potential. • Strong performance management skills, with the ability to use data and KPIs to drive improvement. • Experience in employer engagement, recruitment, business development, employability, sales or a similar customer-facing environment. • Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills. • The ability to lead effectively across a remote or geographically dispersed team. • A good understanding of local labour markets and employer recruitment needs. • Experience working with young people, employability programmes or disadvantaged groups is desirable. • Knowledge of apprenticeships, placements, reverse marketing or supported employment would be an advantage.
Oct 15, 2026
Full time
As Area Manager, you'll lead, coach and inspire a team of Job Brokers who are focused on one key goal: helping young people move into quality, sustainable employment. Your team will work directly with employers to generate vacancies, placements and apprenticeships, build strong employer partnerships and connect young people with the right opportunities. You'll be responsible for creating a high-performing remote team culture, driving KPIs and employment outcomes, developing your people and ensuring the highest standards of customer service and programme delivery. This is more than a management role. It's an opportunity to lead a team that can change young people's lives. What You'll Be Doing • Leading, coaching and developing a geographically dispersed team of Job Brokers to achieve performance, quality and employment targets. • Building a high-performing remote team through regular coaching, performance reviews, feedback and development. • Driving employer engagement and vacancy generation, ensuring your team builds strong relationships with employers across the region. • Using performance data and insight to identify opportunities, address underperformance and continually improve results. • Building strong relationships with Jobcentre Plus, employers, training providers and other stakeholders to maximise opportunities for young people. • Ensuring young people receive high-quality, personalised support and are matched to sustainable employment opportunities. • Promoting innovative approaches to employer engagement, including reverse marketing and creating bespoke opportunities. • Ensuring compliance with contractual, quality and operational requirements while maintaining an excellent customer experience. What You'll Bring • Proven experience leading and developing teams in a target-driven environment. • A natural coach who can motivate people, build confidence and unlock potential. • Strong performance management skills, with the ability to use data and KPIs to drive improvement. • Experience in employer engagement, recruitment, business development, employability, sales or a similar customer-facing environment. • Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills. • The ability to lead effectively across a remote or geographically dispersed team. • A good understanding of local labour markets and employer recruitment needs. • Experience working with young people, employability programmes or disadvantaged groups is desirable. • Knowledge of apprenticeships, placements, reverse marketing or supported employment would be an advantage.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming futures by connecting young people with local employers. You'll build strong relationships with businesses, identify meaningful job opportunities and work closely with participants to understand their goals, match them to the right role and support them to succeed. If you're someone who enjoys engaging employers, creating opportunities and seeing the life-changing impact that employment can have on an individual's confidence, independence and future, this could be the role for you. What you'll be doing Building and maintaining strong relationships with local employers across a range of sectors. Generating quality vacancies, work placements, apprenticeships and other employment opportunities. Getting to know employers and understand their recruitment needs, workplace culture and progression opportunities. Developing a pipeline of vacancies and actively match participants to suitable opportunities. Using creative approaches such as reverse marketing to open up opportunities that may not otherwise exist. Supporting participants throughout the recruitment journey, from identifying suitable roles through to interviews, job starts and beyond. Working with employers and participants to agree effective onboarding arrangements, workplace support and reasonable adjustments where required. Carrying out strengths-based vocational profiling to understand each participant's skills, aspirations, experience and barriers. Providing practical support with job searching, applications, CVs and interview preparation. Connecting participants with specialist services and community organisations where additional support is needed. Providing in-work support to help people settle into their roles, overcome challenges and sustain employment. What we're looking for We're interested in people who can build relationships, spot opportunities and genuinely want to help people succeed. You'll ideally have experience in recruitment, employer engagement, business development, sales, account management, employability, employment services or another employer-facing role. We're looking for someone who can: Build trusted relationships with employers and other stakeholders. Identify employer needs and turn conversations into real recruitment opportunities. Match people effectively to vacancies and support successful recruitment. Communicate confidently and influence a wide range of people. Network within the local business community and develop new employer relationships. Manage multiple employers, vacancies and participants while staying organised. Work towards performance targets and contractual outcomes. Understand local labour markets and the factors influencing recruitment. Experience of welfare-to-work, employability, supported employment or working with people facing barriers to employment would be valuable, as would experience of working with young people, apprenticeships or skills pathways. Above all, we're looking for someone who is passionate about creating opportunities and making a tangible difference to people's lives. Recruitment Timeline Vacancy closing date: 22nd October 2026 Application review date: 23rd October 2026 Interview dates from: 27th October 2026
Oct 15, 2026
Full time
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming futures by connecting young people with local employers. You'll build strong relationships with businesses, identify meaningful job opportunities and work closely with participants to understand their goals, match them to the right role and support them to succeed. If you're someone who enjoys engaging employers, creating opportunities and seeing the life-changing impact that employment can have on an individual's confidence, independence and future, this could be the role for you. What you'll be doing Building and maintaining strong relationships with local employers across a range of sectors. Generating quality vacancies, work placements, apprenticeships and other employment opportunities. Getting to know employers and understand their recruitment needs, workplace culture and progression opportunities. Developing a pipeline of vacancies and actively match participants to suitable opportunities. Using creative approaches such as reverse marketing to open up opportunities that may not otherwise exist. Supporting participants throughout the recruitment journey, from identifying suitable roles through to interviews, job starts and beyond. Working with employers and participants to agree effective onboarding arrangements, workplace support and reasonable adjustments where required. Carrying out strengths-based vocational profiling to understand each participant's skills, aspirations, experience and barriers. Providing practical support with job searching, applications, CVs and interview preparation. Connecting participants with specialist services and community organisations where additional support is needed. Providing in-work support to help people settle into their roles, overcome challenges and sustain employment. What we're looking for We're interested in people who can build relationships, spot opportunities and genuinely want to help people succeed. You'll ideally have experience in recruitment, employer engagement, business development, sales, account management, employability, employment services or another employer-facing role. We're looking for someone who can: Build trusted relationships with employers and other stakeholders. Identify employer needs and turn conversations into real recruitment opportunities. Match people effectively to vacancies and support successful recruitment. Communicate confidently and influence a wide range of people. Network within the local business community and develop new employer relationships. Manage multiple employers, vacancies and participants while staying organised. Work towards performance targets and contractual outcomes. Understand local labour markets and the factors influencing recruitment. Experience of welfare-to-work, employability, supported employment or working with people facing barriers to employment would be valuable, as would experience of working with young people, apprenticeships or skills pathways. Above all, we're looking for someone who is passionate about creating opportunities and making a tangible difference to people's lives. Recruitment Timeline Vacancy closing date: 22nd October 2026 Application review date: 23rd October 2026 Interview dates from: 27th October 2026
