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Operational Hub Lead – 0
Our Benefits
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About the role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and self motivated Operational Hub Lead for the South Midlands Careers Hub to lead the team in improving the careers outcomes for young people in the region.
Our role is to connect together local employers with careers leaders in schools, colleges and training providers to coordinate careers education and enhance each student’s early experiences of the work place. The South Midlands Careers Hub supports around 150 schools, colleges and providers across Bedfordshire and Luton, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire.
Hub supported programmes bring partners together, to act with the shared aims of inspiring young people, and giving students the knowledge and practical skills to make decisions about their next steps.
The South Midlands Careers Hub has a focus on tackling disadvantage, with three priority areas:
1. Continuous improvement of careers provision in schools and colleges against the Gatsby Benchmarks through support, training for the education workforce and quality assurance.
2. Increasing the number of high-quality work experience opportunities available for young people
3. Boosting apprenticeships and technical pathways, including supporting the implementation of the Provider Access Legislation (PAL)
Interviews for this role are expected to be on 17 or 20 October 2025.
About you
You will have excellent communication skills and experience of working collaboratively with partner organisations, developing strong links with internal colleagues and external partners.
You will be able to demonstrate specialist knowledge of a subject relevant to the role, such as a strong understanding of local and national policy relating to skills and economic development, issues and barriers to employment faced by young people, and understanding of post-16 landscape.
You’ll use your professional expertise and knowledge to support the delivery of the Careers Hub programme so that it is efficient and suitable to meet the needs of schools, partners, businesses and providers in line with the funding agreement requirements and strong project management skills.
You will need to have a solutions driven and adaptable approach to working, thrive in a busy environment and have a positive approach to challenges.
You will be able to smoothly manage processes whilst being able use your own initiative to ‘think outside of the box’ whilst having strong leadership and line management skills to lead the team with a full complex workload.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
