Employer Partnerships Executive - Youth Mentor Programme
Job Introduction
Employer Partnerships Executive - Youth Mentor Programme
Turn employer conversations into real opportunities for young people.
You will build the employer network behind our Youth Mentor Programme, creating the employment opportunities that help young people aged 18 to 24 move into work.
This is a proactive business-development role, not passive account management. You will identify and approach new employers, speak with decision-makers, understand their recruitment needs and convert those conversations into suitable employment opportunities. You will own an active pipeline and be measured on what your employer engagement produces - including opportunities and employment starts.
The role covers Oxfordshire & Berkshire, with travel across the delivery area for employer meetings and networking activity.
Before you apply: the essentials
To be considered, your CV and application must clearly demonstrate:
- Experience in employer engagement, recruitment, business development, B2B sales or a comparable role.
- Evidence of personally generating new business, vacancies, customers or employer opportunities rather than solely managing existing accounts.
- Experience building and managing a prospect pipeline, including proactively approaching new organisations or decision-makers.
- Evidence of converting employer or customer conversations into measurable commercial, recruitment or employment outcomes.
- Experience identifying customer needs and presenting a relevant solution rather than relying on a standard sales pitch.
- Evidence of commitment, reliability and consistently delivering high standards of work.
- Evidence of delivering outcomes, targets, tasks, projects or agreed objectives.
- Ability to present your recent employment history clearly, including explaining gaps or short-term roles during the previous five years.
- Confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and CRM or similar systems, with the ability to learn and adapt to other digital systems.
Your application should tell us what you personally generated and converted. Where possible, include evidence such as targets, pipeline value or volume, new accounts, vacancies, placements, conversions or other measurable results.
Useful, but not essential
- Experience within recruitment, employability or publicly funded employment programmes.
- Knowledge of local employers and labour markets across the delivery area.
- A sales, recruitment or business-development qualification.
The real job
A significant part of your role is creating employer relationships that do not already exist. You will identify prospects and initiate conversations by telephone, digitally, face to face and through local business boards, employer networks and networking activity.
You will ask good questions about recruitment needs, roles, hours, locations and workplace expectations, then turn viable conversations into defined opportunities.
You will work closely with Employment Advisors to understand the skills, interests and locations of young people approaching employment. That insight should shape your employer activity - there is little value in generating opportunities that participants cannot realistically access or sustain.
You will coordinate introductions and recruitment activity, maintain accurate CRM records and track conversion from prospect to opportunity and employment start.
What success looks like
You build a broad employer network rather than depending on a handful of established relationships. Your pipeline contains credible opportunities across different sectors, occupations and locations, giving young people genuine choices.
Employers receive a responsive, professional service and understand what the programme can offer. Opportunities convert into employment starts, successful relationships generate further opportunities, and your CRM accurately reflects what is happening in your pipeline.
The working reality
This is a target and outcome-focused employer-development role. You need to be comfortable initiating conversations with employers who do not yet know Get Set UK, prospecting consistently and dealing with the fact that not every conversation will convert.
Success is not measured simply by how many employers you contact. What matters is whether those conversations create suitable opportunities and ultimately employment starts.
You will also travel across the delivery area to meet employers and attend relevant networking activity.
What you get
- 25 days' annual leave, increasing with service.
- Vitality health and wellbeing support, including GP services, mental health support and physiotherapy.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, including up to six counselling sessions a year and legal, financial and debt guidance.
- Workplace pension, with salary sacrifice available subject to eligibility and scheme rules.
- Share buy scheme.
- Up to £360 a year through IncentFit for eligible activities.
- Wellbeing, retail, fitness, travel and mobile discounts, including 20% off eligible EE mobile plans.
About Get Set UK
Get Set UK delivers employment, skills, apprenticeships, health and justice services, helping people overcome barriers and progress towards meaningful, sustainable employment. We are part of Palladium, a global impact organisation with more than 60 years' experience delivering programmes and solutions internationally.
Our values are Be Ambitious, Be Proud, Be Considerate, Be Inspiring and Own It, and they shape how we work with colleagues, participants and partners.
Recruitment process
Apply through our recruitment platform and complete the short initial questionnaire. If you start your application through Indeed or LinkedIn, you will still need to complete this step before we can review your application.
We assess your CV and application against the minimum essential criteria for the role and the evidence you provide. Keep your CV clear and concise and focus on what you personally did, owned, improved or delivered. One to two pages will suit many applicants, although up to three may be appropriate where your relevant experience requires it.
If shortlisted, the process may include a recruitment call or Teams conversation, role-related questionnaire, assessment or testing, and a hiring-manager interview with a task, presentation or practical exercise where relevant.
Preparation, responsiveness and attention to detail matter throughout the process.
Safer recruitment
Get Set UK is committed to safer recruitment practices to help protect our colleagues and the people we support.
As part of our recruitment process, you will be required to provide a complete and accurate history of your employment and other relevant activity for the previous five years, including explanations for any gaps, together with referee details covering the previous three years.
Please ensure the information you provide is complete and accurate, as we may be unable to progress your application until our safer recruitment requirements have been completed.
Depending on the role, further pre-employment checks may include references, right-to-work checks, DBS checks and/or other appropriate vetting.
Any offer is conditional on satisfactory applicable checks.
Eligibility and checks
You must have the full right to work in the UK. Sponsorship is not available for this role.
Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment.
If you can open doors with employers and turn those relationships into quality employment opportunities for young people, apply today.
Additional information
We reserve the right to close applications early, so we encourage early applications. Get Set UK is a Disability Confident and Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals and are committed to supporting physical and mental wellbeing at work. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. This role is subject to satisfactory recruitment checks and a commitment to safeguarding learners and clients. Get Set UK does not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies.
