ESOL Administrator
Reference: SOU1042672
The Vacancy
Southwark College, part of NCG, is looking for a dedicated, creative, and enthusiastic Administrator to work with staff and students from our ESOL Faculty.
In this extremely rewarding role, you will work with the Head of Faculty, Curriculum Managers and Lecturers to provide administrative support for the ESOL students.
Your role will be to support students and staff proactively and professionally. This will include diary management of ESOL staff; producing agendas, minutes for ESOL meetings; dealing with ESOL student enquires in person, on the phone and by e-mail; providing administrative support so that ESOL students are enrolled on the correct level of course and co-ordinating ESOL staff rotas for open evenings, enrolments, and exams.
You will work closely with support and curriculum colleagues, parents/carers, and outside professionals to ensure that ESOL students receive the best support possible and achieve the highest outcomes.
The post requires candidates with a strong administrative background, who have experience of working with students in an educational setting. An ability to speak a second language would be advantageous. The learners you will be supporting will be learning English as a second language, they will require support and guidance to be access opportunities and be enrolled on the courses.
To help achieve this, the successful candidate will be working as part of a hardworking, passionate, and supportive team that is committed to providing high quality provision and support and getting the best out of our ESOL learners.
The role will be based in the Adult ESOL and Employability Faculty, at Southwark College and will be managed by the Head of Faculty for Adult ESOL and Employability.
This role would involve the successful candidate working onsite for two full days a week. There is flexibility with the successful candidate as to which days they work.
About Southwark College
Southwark College is a large further education college in London, offering an exciting range of work-focused courses that give our students the skills and experience they need to develop their employment potential. We provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.
We’re proud of our success in achieving excellent results and producing knowledgeable and successful students, but we’re built on our staff and our success is down to recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. Helping our young people and adults to fulfil their potential and often transform their lives through education requires dedication, patience and the ability to think differently. That’s why we set out to recruit staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome.
We’d love you to join the team if you want to make a real difference to the lives of students, local employers and the wider Southwark community. In return, we’ll provide you with a range of development opportunities, benefits and support to help you fulfil your role.
Southwark College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.
At Southwark College, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.
Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.
1. Being both inclusive and diverse
2. Trusting and respecting our communities
3. Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
4. Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
As part of the NCG Group, Southwark College offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.
NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.
To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.
NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.
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Telephone: 0191 226 6390
Email: NCGRecruitment@ncgrp.co.uk