Job Description

Salary £35,000 - £40,000 depending on experience

Working pattern Office based at Renishaw sites Mon to Thurs, option to WFH on Fridays dependent on work commitments

Location Miskin, south Wales

As an Early Careers Support Coordinator, you will be the liaison between internal and external stakeholders to ensure the effective delivery of our graduate, apprentice, and placement programmes. This role involves direct interaction with learners, their line managers, training providers, and other relevant parties. You will also evaluate and track progress against established plans and milestones, providing necessary support and guidance.

The primary purpose of this role is to support, guide, and advocate for our early careers cohorts during the duration of their programmes, to ensure a positive, inclusive, and successful experience is achieved.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Be the primary point of contact for early careers colleagues, ensuring a supported and structured experience.

• Provide pastoral support to early careers colleagues, assisting with queries and identifying interventions where necessary.

• Meet regularly with early careers colleagues to review progress and development areas, support and guide through challenges, and celebrate successes.

• Prepare information on early career cohorts where performance intervention is required and provide it to the Early Careers Manager for action and closure.

• Organise placements and ensure structured training plans are in place and met.

• Support, guide and check End Point Assessment documentation for apprentices and up skilling staff

• Maintain accurate records of early careers colleagues, ensuring timely tracking of progress and compliance, using databases and established processes.

• Support line managers and other stakeholders to deliver on their duties, including provisions applicable to young or vulnerable learners.

• Build relationships with all early careers’ colleagues and stakeholders across the various business locations and sites.

• Conduct timely reviews with training providers, monitoring all aspects of apprenticeships, including off-the-job training and qualifications progress.

• Establish effective connections with apprentice training providers and industrial placement universities to guarantee well-organised learning experiences.

• Work collaboratively with internal teams to align early careers programmes with business needs and workforce planning and support the continual improvement of all Renishaw early careers programs.

Person specification

• Effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage high volumes of work and multiple tasks at a time, often within tight deadlines

• A motivated and proactive self-starter with a passion for developing others

• Diligent and detail-orientated, able to demonstrate clear decision-making capability and take responsibility for outcomes

• An agile and flexible approach to tasks, able to change priorities at short notice

• Effective communication and influencing skills

• Patient, supportive, with a genuine care for learners’ and their success

• Able to work both independently and collaboratively in a wider team

• Capable of establishing strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels of the business

Key requirements

Essential

• Proven track record in supporting the delivery of early careers programmes and pastoral care for learners, including giving feedback in a formal and informal setting

• Understanding and practical experience of different learning styles and abilities

• Ensuring inclusivity among all stakeholders

• A good understanding of the content and purpose of apprenticeships, academic and vocational qualifications, and their delivery and assessment approaches

• The ability to coach others in how to support early careers learners, such as through objective setting and performance management techniques

• Experience of preparing reports and using report dash boards in databases

• A full UK driving licence as travel to all sites and apprentice providers will be required

Desirable

• Experience in using LMS/reporting systems to effectively manage learner progress, build action plans, and keep relevant stakeholders informed

• An EPA assessor or a NVQ assessor qualification

• An Engineering or IT technical background to support EPA portfo