About The Role
Balfour Beatty Living Places are seeking an Employment & Skills Coordinator to support our growing education, skills and early careers programmes across Warwickshire.
In this role you will coordinate a range of employment and skills activities including T Level industry placements, apprenticeship promotion and candidate sourcing, in-person and virtual work experience programmes, and wider education engagement with schools, colleges and universities.
You will develop strong partnerships with local education providers and regional skills organisations (including Careers Hubs, Skills Hubs, Chambers of Commerce and LSIP partners) to help build sustainable early talent pipelines.
This role is key to supporting the contract’s commitments to employment, skills, ED&I, and social impact, helping develop a diverse and future-ready workforce across the region
What you'll be doing
As an Employment & Skills Coordinator, you will have the following accountabilities:
Education & Skills Pathways
• Manage the end-to-end coordination of T Level industry placements, including sourcing candidates, designing programmes and supporting business teams.
• Lead on the delivery of in-person and virtual work experience programmes, ensuring high-quality, curriculum-aligned content.
• Build strong working relationships with schools, colleges and universities across Warwickshire to promote sector careers and engagement opportunities.
• Promote and support apprenticeship recruitment, encouraging candidates from priority groups and creating progression pathways within Balfour Beatty.
• Support operational teams to host students and early career learners safely and effectively.
Partnership & Stakeholder Development
• Develop partnerships with regional organisations
• Represent the contract at skills networks, careers groups and sector taskforce meetings.
• Maintain awareness of regional skills priorities, including the West Midlands & Warwickshire LSIP, and align programmes to local employer needs.
Educational Outreach & Engagement
• Deliver the contract’s commitments to education engagement, coordinating volunteer speakers, workshops, and sector talks.
• Encourage and grow the number of STEM Ambassadors across the contract.
• Support delivery of the BioBuilders Environmental Education Programme, promoting.
• understanding of biodiversity and environmental careers
Reporting & Social Value Outcomes
• Track, monitor and report on all placements, work experience, apprenticeship outcomes and education engagements.
• Ensure accurate recording of key metrics to evidence social value and contract commitments.
• Produce case studies, newsletters, updates and good news stories celebrating skills and education achievements.
Who we're looking for
Essential
• A genuine passion for supporting people into education, skills and employment pathways.
• Understanding of post-16 education and early careers routes including T Levels, apprenticeships and work experience.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with internal teams and external partners.
• Experience coordinating events, placements, workshops or multi-stakeholder programmes.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple commitments.
• Strong IT skills across Microsoft 365 and confidence with digital tools for reporting outcomes.
• Understanding of the local education/skilled labour landscape in Warwickshire or West Midlands.
Desirable
• Experience in a skills, employability, education liaison or early careers role.
• Knowledge of Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) or regional workforce priorities.
• Experience delivering careers workshops or engaging with young people.
• Familiarity with STEM outreach, ED&I initiatives and community engagement.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
