Skills, Employment and Education (SEE) Delivery Officer

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain’s biggest construction project?
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain’s new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It’s an incredibly exciting time to join us - we’re at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you’d join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Skills, Employment and Education (SEE) Delivery Officer within the Skills, Employment and Education team. This role will be based on site in Coleshill. Our head office is located within an excellent location easily accessible via the M6 and M42. The office is also accessible via rail, and we offer employees a shuttle bus transfer to our office from Birmingham international.
Role description:
Working within the Skills Employment and Education (SEE) Team, the SEE Delivery Officer will support the direct delivery of inclusive skills, employment and education and careers activities across Balfour Beatty VINCI’s (BBV) Area North HS2 project, ensuring we are contributing to the development of a highly skilled and diverse workforce.
The post holder will account-manage and work internally with BBV staff and externally with subcontractors and job brokerage partners to meet skills, employment and education key performance indicators. This will involve working within established systems and processes to ensure activities being delivered are compliant while delivering an excellent customer experience to all categories of service users.
Accountabilities:
* Account manage and maintain effective working relationships with internal departments and subcontractors to support the delivery of SEE contractual requirements.
* Connect BBV and supplier personnel to employability training, education and careers initiatives through established relationships with internal departments and external subcontractors.
* Assist in the timely development, promotion and distribution of messages, communications and marketing materials to support outreach campaigns for training, apprenticeships and job opportunities.
* Support the co-ordination and delivery of customised training programmes, careers fairs, candidate selection processes, school/FE/HE engagements and community-based events.
* Work within established procedures and policies in relation to the safeguarding of young people. Complete risk assessments and ensure all parties are appraised of roles and responsibilities.
* Manage a caseload of paid and unpaid placement participants ensuring that line managers and suppliers are suitably supported and informed to deliver high-quality experiences to target groups.
* Track applications and participation achievements across all categories of SEE delivery and co-ordinate timely quantitative and qualitative feedback for internal and external reporting purposes.
* Provide single point of contact, advice, guidance and support to a caseload of managers, suppliers and SEE candidates. Generate and collate good practice and good news case studies using a variety of media for internal and external promotion.
Experienced required:
* Knowledge of and ability to apply employment and skills development activities.
* Excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills including use of social media.
* Team player with ability to influence and negotiate.
* Strong problem-solving skills.
* Computer literate and proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
* Knowledge and experience of developing people within the context of supporting underrepresented groups and local communities.
* Coaching and mentoring skills.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits of working with us
• Flexible working available for some roles
• Free parking
• Travel allowance for eligible candidates
• Family friendly leave policies
• Excellent pension contributions
• Healthcare
• Health risk assessments
• Access to employee assistance programmes
• Access to annual flu vaccinations
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI’s role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
• 9.3km of viaducts
• 62 overbridges
• 35 cuttings
• 56 culverts
• 62 embankments
• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses
Diversity and Inclusion
Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
Flexible working
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements