Placement Associate

Location: Hybrid - remote and office based- you will be required to attend your nearest Generation hub office in London/Leeds/ Manchester/ Birmingham 1-4 times a month ( based on proximity to the offices)

Salary: £28,900 p.a. to £31,200 p.a.+ up to 10% bonus on target performance

Contract: Full Time; 40 hours a week; Permanent

ABOUT THE ROLE

This role is perfect for someone who is deeply passionate about supporting people from diverse backgrounds into employment and who has the ability to inspire this passion in employers. If you thrive on making a tangible difference in people's lives and are driven to see others succeed, this position offers a fulfilling and impactful career path.

Your main priority is to match Generation boot camp graduates with suitable work opportunities from our employer partners and the open jobs market. You will have the chance to work with graduates across the full range of Generation programs, spanning multiple regions and technical disciplines, including our highly regarded Healthcare and Green programs.

Reporting to the Head of Placements for UK & Ireland, your key focus will be on enabling our learners to secure employment. You will achieve this by thoroughly understanding the role requirements of our employer partners and matching these needs with the relevant talent from our cohorts. In doing so, you will build enduring relationships with employers, ensuring that Generation UK&I becomes their preferred talent sourcing partner.

If you are excited about the prospect of empowering diverse individuals to reach their potential and want to play a pivotal role in shaping their career journeys, we invite you to join us in this transformative mission.

ABOUT GENERATION

Generation's mission is to train, coach and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible to them.

We are a UK registered charity, founded by McKinsey and Company, delivering tailored programmes to recruit, train and place unemployed people into work. Through our unique approach, we also solve a wide range of employer challenges—skilled talent shortages, poor job performance, lack of diversity, and high turnover.

Generation launched globally in 2015, and has grown quickly to become the world’s largest demand-led employment initiative. We have placed over 80,000 people into roles, working with over 4,000 employer partners to date across 16 countries and 26 professions.

Generation UK&I is currently running training to employment programmes in the West Midlands, London, Manchester, Dublin, Leeds and Scotland. We run a range of tech boot-camps with partners including The Prince’s Trust, Amazon Web Services, Multiverse and Infinity Works, as well as programmes supporting people into healthcare, the Green sector and customer service roles. In addition, we provide lighter-touch career support for people looking to find work but who don't have a specific profession in mind.

By joining Generation UK&I now, you will become part of an organisation which is determined to play its part in addressing both of these challenges for people in the UK and Ireland over the coming months and years.

Find out more at www.generation.org

You can also learn more about our culture, directly from our incredible people - What is it like to work at Generation?

Generation acknowledges the duty of care to safeguard, protect, and promote the welfare of staff and learners and is committed to ensuring safeguarding practice reflects statutory responsibilities, and government guidance and complies with best practice.

All our staff in the UK are required to undergo a DBS check.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Main areas of responsibility,  

1. Graduate management

• Provide high-quality job search, application and interview support,  1-2-1 and via workshops. 
• Understand the skill set and job preferences of graduates to successfully match them to available opportunities 
• Prepare learners for the opportunities that have been matched to by ensuring learners have the relevant information and support. At times deliver mock interviews and feedback for development and growth. 
• Promote job opportunities via Generation learner communication channels
• Collate and log interview and job evidence from graduates for funders
• Track job retainment and capture success stories.

2. Support with Account management 

• Upon graduation of each cohort, support the Business Development Team with the Account Management of employers to ensure there is a robust interview and feedback mechanism in place, successfully managing the recruitment process from start to finish. 

• Organise and collect employer feedback, case studies and interviews. 
• Support wider Business Development Team in running events ( including matchmaking days) which connect employers to our grads  

3. Supporting areas of responsibilities

• Track job placements against targets and implement process improvements to enhance placement outcomes. 
• Contribute to the ongoing development of account management processes.
• Help develop Generation’s understanding of the needs and attributes of employers you work with and feed this back to internal teams as appropriate.
• Contribute to the development of ROI frameworks, tools, and data collection processes for existing and new job roles and oversee any necessary data collection process involving the employers.

KPIs for the role

1. Job placement targets (as defined)
2. Job placement conversions 
3. Learner bench size managed

Requirements

PERSON PROFILE  

Skills & experience

• Recruitment background- in particular experience screening and evaluating candidates is essential. Experience with a recruitment agency is desirable, though not essential. 
• The ability to communicate to a broad mix of stakeholders, including heads of departments. If you have had some experience in building relationships with clients in a recruitment setting, it’s an advantage.. 
• The ability to connect with and inspire people. You will regularly connect with jobseekers and support them to achieve their career goals. 
• Exposure to working in a fast-paced start-up or entrepreneurial environment, as well as some evidence of having worked independently.

Attributes

• Here to serve - you like to connect with individuals, understand their needs, what makes them tick and you are capable of clearly defining how best to support them. 
• Consulting skills- ability to understand the requirements of employers and deliver on talent expectations. Employers and learners are motivated by your energy and passion and you are able to build trust with both employers and learners. 
• Passionate about the cause - you have a demonstrated interest and motivation to support those from a disadvantaged background 
• Problem-solving - When there are challenges, you are able to turn things around and achieve a win-win solution. 
• Communication skills - good writing and editing skills, and strong attention to detail. Strong verbal communication which can be adapted to reflect the audience. 
• Self-motivated and proactive - you will have placement targets to reach and a mission to achieve. You will generate ideas and look to make process improvements. You will organize your workflows to get the best results, collaborating with others and leading projects where necessary.

Benefits

At Generation, we're changing the lives of many individuals, and that in itself gets us out of bed! Here are a few other benefits you'll experience working with the UK team:

• Purpose and social impact in the heart of your work
• Opportunity to make your mark - you'll have a lot of autonomy to bring the Generation blueprint to life in a way that makes sense for your region
• Opportunity to get involved with a range of activities and varied projects - we're a small team, so there are lots of opportunities to get involved in projects across the whole organisation
• We offer flexible and remote working to accommodate everyone's preferred working pattern/preferences and unique needs
• WFH set up offer of support of £300 to help you make your working-from-home setup comfortable and efficient
• Professional Development is a priority for Generation and employees and you can access to up to £1,000 towards your learning & development per year. This support is accompanied by up to 5 days of training days/ study leave per year to enable your development activities.

A fair chance

Every role at Generation is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone; regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical ability, family structure, socio-economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well, you.

We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become. More than just encouraging your application, we're committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) cultivates an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We go further together. It’s this philosophy that drives us towards our mission. We open our doors to those who share this mindset.

We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates from marginalised groups. We will assess applications on a rolling basis and close this posting as soon as we have found the right candidate. We look forward to hearing from you.