REPREZENT
Skills & Careers Partnerships Lead - Volunteer
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Strategic Lead in Skills & Employability Partnerships
This is an executive volunteer role, using your knowledge, experience and professional networks to help identify opportunities, build relationships and open doors.
What difference will you make?
This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role within one of the UK's most respected youth media organisations.
- Work alongside an ambitious executive team
- Contribute to genuine organisational growth
- See the direct impact of your work on the lives of young people
You'll also have the opportunity to
- Help shape the future direction of Reprezent
- Work with experienced leaders across education, media and the voluntary sector
- Expand your own professional network
- Use your experience to create lasting social impact
- Be part of a passionate organisation that's committed to creating opportunities where they're needed most
We currently have 4,500 trainees on our waiting list. Every partnership we make has the potential to unlock new opportunities for young people.
Whether it's securing a meeting with a Local Authority, introducing a new employer, developing relationships with colleges or identifying future commissioning opportunities, your work could directly lead to hundreds of young people accessing training, work experience and employment opportunities they may never otherwise have had.
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We're a wonderful brand to represent and you'll be helping us build the partnerships that allow Reprezent to expand its reach and deliver even greater social impact over the coming years.
What are we looking for?
You don't need experience in broadcasting or youth work. More important is your ability to build trust, spot opportunities and develop long-term relationships.
You enjoy networking and achieving results
You may have experience in
- Skills and Employability
- Further or Higher Education
- Local Government
- Economic Development
- Careers Services
- Public Sector Partnerships
- Business Development
- Commissioning
- Employer Engagement
- Workforce Development
If you've spent your career building experience and relationships and would like to use those to create opportunities for the next generation, we'd love to hear from you.
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What will you be doing?
We're looking for someone who enjoys building relationships and connecting organisations around a shared purpose.
Working with our Executive Team, you'll help to
- Build relationships with Local Authorities, Further Education colleges, universities and employability organisations
- Identify new commissioning and partnership opportunities
- Introduce Reprezent to key decision-makers across the skills and employability sector
- Develop relationships with employers interested in supporting or delivering employability programmes
- Attend networking events where appropriate
- Maintain a pipeline of partnership opportunities
- Support strategic meetings with prospective partners
- Keep abreast of developments across the skills and employability landscape
- Help shape our long-term employability partnership strategy
You'll be creating opportunities that enable Reprezent to grow its impact and support 1'000's more young people into meaningful careers.
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