Business Skills Support Advisor - Teacher Industry Exchange

Warwickshire County Council • Warwick, RI

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About The Position

The Business Skills Support Advisor supports Warwickshire businesses in acquiring the talent needed for continued sustainability and growth. The role helps broker meaningful relationships between construction employers, further education providers and the Warwickshire Skills Hub through the Warwickshire Construction Industry Exchange Programme.

The postholder connects industry expertise with curriculum needs so learners and teaching staff can benefit from current workplace knowledge, practical insight and employer-led activity. Working through a central brokerage model, the Advisor serves as a point of contact for employers and colleges and coordinates opportunities such as guest lectures, demonstrations, workshops, masterclasses and project-based learning. The role also supports further education construction teachers to spend time in industry for continuing professional development.

The Advisor helps mobilise and grow the programme, supports a shared delivery plan across providers, and works to reduce duplication, improve scheduling and ensure fair access to employer input. This work contributes to strengthening construction education across Warwickshire, improving curriculum relevance and developing skills needed by the sector. This is a two-year fixed-term role with the potential to extend.

Requirements

• Confidently engage with employers, colleges and wider skills partners.
• Ability to translate industry needs into practical education and workforce development activity.
• Strong organisation, communication and relationship management skills.
• Ability to speak and provide advice to the public in accurate spoken English.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of employer engagement, partnership working, skills brokerage, education or construction-related workforce development.

Responsibilities

• Support the Warwickshire Construction Industry Exchange Programme.
• Broker relationships between construction employers, further education providers and the Warwickshire Skills Hub.
• Connect industry expertise with curriculum needs and support employer-led activity for learners and teaching staff.
• Coordinate activity through a central brokerage model and act as a clear contact for employers and colleges.
• Match construction organisations and professionals with teaching opportunities, including guest lectures, demonstrations, workshops, masterclasses and project-based learning.
• Support opportunities for further education construction teachers to spend time in industry for continuing professional development.
• Help mobilise and grow the programme.
• Support a shared delivery plan across providers, helping reduce duplication, improve scheduling and ensure fair access to employer input.
• Contribute to strengthening construction education, improving curriculum relevance and developing skills needed by the sector.

Benefits

• Agile working.
• Generous annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas.
• Access to the Vivup benefits and discounts platform.
• Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution rate typically around 19 percent per month, and benefits for members and their dependants.
• Childcare vouchers.
• Health care schemes.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Enhanced wellbeing and staff benefit programmes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed