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Only considering candidates eligible to work in Grantham, UK ⚠️
Senior Business Development Advisor – FIXED TERM Up to 12 Months
Job Reference: SBDA/05.2025
Salary: This is a full time role with a full-time equivalent salary of up to £27,138 per annum.
Working Hours: 33 hours per week over 4 days, working one in four Fridays, 52 weeks per year.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Business Development Advisor to join our Business Development department.
The purpose of the role is to support the curriculum to take forward/develop new business opportunities, working with curriculum colleagues and key employers.
The successful applicant must have:
- GCSE or equivalent (includes Maths and English A* – C)
- Knowledge of Apprenticeship Frameworks/Standards
- Excellent customer service skills
- Relationship Building
- The ability to meet deadlines
- The ability to work within a team
- Excellent communication and Relationship building skills
- Presentation, organisation and time management skills.
- Time Management
- IT competency
The roles main duties include:
- Supporting the curriculum to take forward/develop new business opportunities, working with curriculum colleagues and key employers.
- Working with the Vice Principal of Business Development with the development, implementation and review of relevant paperwork, processes and systems across employer responsive provision.
- Advising and preparing college colleagues to adapt to relevant changes to policy and funding so that the college can continue to strengthen employer engagement activity, maximise available funding and generate income
- Providing reports and updates to the Vice Principal of Business Development.
- Managing existing and new accounts, and all aspects of the employer experience from identification of training needs, presenting solutions and ensuring business delivery
- Undertaking training needs analysis activity with employers to identify skill gaps in workforce and offer portfolio of appropriate solutions
- Identifying and following up new business opportunities within expected timescales
- Promoting all college courses including Apprenticeships, Full Cost and Adult provision along with Employer Response initiatives
- Developing strong working rapport with employers and stakeholders by undertaking regular performance evaluations, feeding back comments and concerns to Head of Business Development
- Ensuring that the CRM system is maintained and updated with correct correspondence/paperwork for employer responsive activities
- Carrying out initial assessments with apprentices and arrange diagnostic testing
- Advertising apprenticeship vacancies on the National Apprenticeship Service and manage application process in a timely manner
- Promoting Apprenticeship opportunities to eligible candidates and match applicants with appropriate vacancies
- Assisting employers with interview and selection process if required
- Completing Apprenticeship provider/employer contract paperwork in line with funding guidance
- Maintaining knowledge of Apprenticeship programmes and requirements through relevant CPD
- Lead on promoting Apprenticeships and other training opportunities at local networks and events
This role requires you to engage in regulatory activity in the FE sector. The full definition of regulatory activity is set out in the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. Regulated activity includes teaching, instructing, caring for or supervising children if the person is unsupervised.
Fancy a 4-day working week*?
Grantham College operate a 4-day working week. Staff benefit from working a full-time contract over four days. You will work core hours of Monday to Thursday, working a Friday morning once a month
Grantham College experience positive benefits from the 4-day week, including improvement to staff wellbeing and morale. We have also seen benefits in terms of reduced staff turnover leading to greater consistency of performance for our students and apprentices. The number of staff sickness absence days has reduced alongside the energy usage for the college and therefore its carbon emissions. We have also seen improvements in key quality indicators such as student attendance and retention and we are confident this will feed through into improved achievement rates and more positive outcomes for our students.
What we offer you in return:
- An excellent pension scheme :
- Local Government: Employer Contribution 24.5%
- A continued professional development programme of up to £750 per academic year
- In addition to the 8 Bank Holidays a year, a generous annual leave allowance of:
- 5 Weeks for Support employees, this will increase to 5.8 weeks, after 5 years’ service
- Generous occupational sick pay scheme after one years service
- Family friendly policies, including up to 5 paid occasions for time off for dependants within a 12 month period, after the first year of service
- Up to Five college closure days in December in addition to annual leave
The closing date for all applications will be Sunday 15 June 2025.
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Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we will only be able to contact candidates who have been selected for interview. You are welcome to download a full application pack and return your completed application to [email protected]
Please note that we do not accept CV’s by way of application or online application via other websites, you must complete a Grantham College application form. Grantham College are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This employment offer is subject to a self-funded satisfactory enhanced DBS check. The successful applicant will have a deduction of £61.50 taken from payroll. We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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