Careers, Information, Advice and Guidance (CIAG) Coordinator

About the role

The CIAG Coordinator is responsible for providing comprehensive careers, information, advice, and guidance services to students within the Adult Learning Service. They will play a key role in supporting students in making informed decisions about their education, training, and career pathways, ultimately enhancing their employability and progression opportunities.

Advise senior leadership and lead implementation on policy, strategy and resources for CEIAG and lead on the services career plan, matrix Standard accreditation and ensure Gatsby Benchmarks are met.

What will you be doing?

CIAG Service Delivery:

1. Plan, coordinate, and deliver a comprehensive CIAG service to students, including one-to-one guidance sessions, group workshops, and careers events.
2. Provide impartial information, advice, and guidance to students on a range of education, training, and career options, tailored to their individual needs and aspirations.
3. Deliver workshops, seminars, and presentations on topics related to career exploration, employability skills, CV writing, interview techniques, and job search strategies.
4. To lead on the service MATRIX accreditation.
5. Advise senior leadership and curriculum teams on policy, strategy and resources for CEIAG
6. To liaise and work effectively with the full range of support services to ensure marketing, enrolment and support enhances the curriculum offering and recruitment including supporting planned marketing and promotional events.
7. Support tutors providing initial information and advice.

About you

1. Demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people’s behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
2. Comply with the Council’s policies and procedures including (but not limited to) safeguarding, financial regulations, promotion of equalities, customer care, agreed audit actions and health and safety (ensuring that reasonable care is taken at all times for the health, safety and welfare of yourself and other persons).
3. Understand the councils committment to Corporate Parenting and take responsibility to support this commitment. Enable the council to be the best corporate parents possible to children and young people in our current and previous care.
4. Carry out any other duties which fall within the broad spirit, scope and purpose of this job description and which are commensurate with the grade of the post.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)