About the role
We are seeking an enthusiastic, experienced, and skilled Careers and Information Advice and Guidance Officer to join our Community Learning team.
In this role, you will play a key part in recruiting students and providing careers and education information, advice, and guidance across the Community Learning provision. You will also support curriculum colleagues by enabling them to deliver a high-quality, impartial Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG) service to prospective and current students, as well as community learners, maximizing their opportunities for progression into further education, volunteering, or employment.
Key Responsibilities
Work collaboratively with Community Learning partners across the college, and with statutory and voluntary sector organisations, to recruit learners and deliver a high-quality Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) service.
Support the Community Learning service in recruiting and retaining learners, ensuring contractual targets are met and learner success is achieved.
Design and deliver employability skills sessions, providing tailored support with job searches, CV development, and interview preparation.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact by empowering students and community learners to achieve their educational and career goals.
About Community Learning at Morley
Morley’s community learning service is responsible for delivering courses and engagement activities for our most vulnerable communities, across the boroughs of Lambeth and Kensington & Chelsea. This provision continues the socially driven mission of our founders, Emma Cons and Samuel Morley, who created the college to help address local disadvantages. The community learning service works in partnership with local authorities, children’s centres, and voluntary sector organisations in order to reach local residents who may lack the confidence, skills or financial resources to enrol at our three larger college centres.
About Morley College
Morley College London is a creative college, based around three main centres – North Kensington, Chelsea and Waterloo delivering accredited and non-accredited courses to the people of London.
As well as joining a creative, innovative leading London College focused on social justice and providing excellent teaching and learning opportunities for all, there are plenty of other rewards for working at Morley College London:
- Generous annual leave allowance (38 days) plus Bank Holidays
- Christmas closure period
- Excellent Local Government pension scheme with generous employer contributions
- Access to an employee retail savings platform, offering significant discounts at most major retailers
- 100% discount on the cost of undertaking a Morley course of your choice
- Season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
- On site cafeterias
- A busy events calendar, offering you the chance to attend regular Morley creative exhibitions, student awards, dances, concerts and more
- A lovely work environment, surrounded by creative arts, music and friendly, helpful colleagues
If you want to make a difference and believe in the power of learning to build connections, community and skills, we'd love you to join us.
Important information
Morley College London is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children at all times. As such we undertake safeguarding checks on the suitability of all prospective staff, including their online presence and social media accounts. It is a requirement that all successful candidates disclose all social media platform accounts that they hold.
Morley College London is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We particularly welcome applications from under represented groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion, with previous experience working within FE and delivering high-quality teaching and learning on science programmes please apply. We would love you to join the team.