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The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal have a skills element called the Integrated Regional and Employability Skills. There are seven themes under this

1.Labour Market Analysis

2.Integrated Knowledge Systems

3.Intensive Family Support

4.Data and Digital Innovation Gateway

5.Housing and Construction Gateway

6.Integrated Employer Engagement

7.Workforce Mobility

The modern apprentice post is funded under the Integrated Employer Engagement theme but will also link into the other City Region projects we deliver on.

The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal is a change fund, to bring better regional alignment and facilitate change on how we work together and make better use of opportunities and economic growth.

This approach is about getting existing employability and related services to work better collectively and bring about genuine, joined up and sustainable integration. It requires significant regional partnership working to be at the heart of all approaches.

The Business Support Assistant will have the following tasks

·To support the City Region Deal teams on a day to day basis with business duties and administration, including room bookings, travel arrangements, event organisation, and other relevant administration duties that arise from project planning;

•To support the administration co-ordination of quarterly steering groups consisting of diary management and room booking for meetings with key partners and stakeholders;

•To work effectively within a small team to support managers and officers in their daily tasks, identifying ways that administrative functions can make best use of resources;

•To support the managers and officers in the creation and maintenance of a website as an information support resource;

•To support the planning and running of regional learning and good practice events, organising attendance lists and bookings;

•To support the Finance Manager with retaining and logging receipts of project expenditure;

•To support a social media presence to promote the work of the projects across appropriate social media platforms;

•To assist with the creation and promotion of marketing literature and products

The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal have a skills element called the Integrated Regional and Employability Skills. There are seven themes under this

1. Labour Market Analysis

2. Integrated Knowledge Systems

3. Intensive Family Support

4. Data and Digital Innovation Gateway

5. Housing and Construction Gateway

6. Integrated Employer Engagement

7. Workforce Mobility

This post has been funded under the Integrated Employer Engagement theme but will also link into the other City Region themes where relevant.

The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal is a change fund, to bring better regional alignment and facilitate change on how we work together and make better use of opportunities and economic growth.

This approach is about getting existing employability and related services to work better collectively and bring about genuine, joined up and sustainable integration. It requires significant regional partnership working to be at the heart of all approaches.

The team will consist of three Integrated Employer Engagement Officers (including the CB officer) and will be responsible for the following main areas:

· To support the development of an Integrated Employer Engagement team plan to bring about significant regional change in partnership with the six regional partner areas;

• To support the co-ordination of a quarterly steering group consisting of key partners and stakeholders to help guide the overall strategic vision of the theme;

• To support the Manager in producing timelines and implementation plans, and conducting on-going evaluation;

• To work effectively within a small team for an initial two years to bring about sustainable change and adapt and influence current services with a regional set of standards with an initial focus on branding and aligned and integrated employer offers;

• To facilitate the development of a community benefit employer approach, with an agreed set of standards and charter

• Support the delivery of a Community Benefits framework for all City Deal projects, working with the PMO leads to identify innovative approaches

• To understand, support and further develop the Recruitment Skill Centre model, bringing added value to the approaches established at Fort Kinnaird, FUSE and Edinburgh Airport, and developing the learning to other regional areas;

• To create an Information platform (website) as an employer support resource on better working together, including linking to the Integrated Knowledge Systems talent bank for recruitment;

To produce on-going regional learning events and good practice recommendations for sustainability for consideration at the IRES board;

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced employer engagement officer to join the team on a 2-year fixed term contract.

As the employer engagement officer, you will support the Employer Relationship Manager in the delivery of the Employer Engagement strategy as part of Edinburgh’s Jobs Strategy and the Strategic Skills Pipeline.

To support the city’s offer to employers who are recruiting, growing or developing their workforce and further maintain and enhance the delivery of a high quality, cost effective customer focused and responsive service to Edinburgh Employers through the Joined up for Business (JUFB) Partnership.

Secondments will be considered,

Please note this is a full-time post however part time may be considered.