Job Description

Job Title / Strategy consultant - stakeholder team
Location / Central London
Reporting to / Director of Stakeholders
Direct Report / NA
Term (Temp/Perm) / Interim 4 months
Salary range / Competitive day rate / fixed term salary
Overview:
The Careers & Enterprise Company was set up by government in 2015 to inspire and prepare young people for the fast-changing world of work. Our role is to be the national network that connects schools and colleges, employers and careers programme providers to create high-impact careers opportunities for young people.
Executing against this modern and dynamic blueprint cannot be done in isolation. It requires thousands of people from schools, colleges, employers and careers and enterprise providers working together. At the Careers & Enterprise Company, we are committed to working with others to create a network that delivers these encounters and helps schools and colleges build careers and enterprise aligned with this best practice.

Our four pillars of work

1.Building local networks: We are building a national network in collaboration with Local Enterprise Partnerships that connects schools and colleges to employers across the country.

2.Finding out what works: Our research draws together what is known about the best ways to prepare young people for the world of work.

3.Backing proven ideas: Our investment funds helps the best ideas spread quickly. We use these programmes to develop best practice and leverage additional investment into the system, with over £15million in external funding secured to date.

4.Supporting careers and enterprise with technology: We are developing a digital infrastructure to support young people into the world of work and to help schools and colleges to optimise their careers and enterprise provision.

Christine Hodgson, chairman of Capgemini, is our chair. Other board members include Lord Young, former Enterprise Adviser to the Prime Minister, Steve Holliday, former Chief Executive of National Grid plc, Brian Lightman, former General Secretary of ASCL and Dame Julia Cleverdon DCVO, CBE, Vice President of Business in the Community and Special Adviser to The Prince’s Charities. The company is led by Claudia Harris, CEO and former partner at McKinsey.
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Role Summary
The Careers & Enterprise Company sits at the heart of bringing the worlds of education and employers together, with a number of key developments in educational policy recently which impact on employers, schools and colleges, the CEC wants to understand the impact of these and what their roles as an organisation could and should be in supporting their key stakeholders with these challenges.
We would like a strategy advisor to join the team on an initial four month basis, reporting to the Director of Stakeholders and looking at a number of key strategic areas for the Company, including:
  • Apprenticeships:Understanding this incredibly important policy drive, the key players in this space, thechallengesbothemployers and schools face and whatmore the Company could do to support this.
  • College Strategy:Work with the Head of Education to develop a College Strategy for the Company to best understand our role in and the value we add to the College sector, and the role we should take in upcoming developments for Colleges.
  • Employer Engagement Strategy: Work with the Director of Stakeholders, building on our recent research into the gap in investment in employer encounters, to understand how we can develop our employer engagement strategy to make a greater impact on the broader careers sector to ultimately support young people.
For each project we would be looking for the strategy advisor to:
  • Understand the Company’s current level of work by engaging with individuals across the organisation
  • Map the players in the sector, their roles and any perceived gaps
  • Understand relevant data and research which identifies key trends/challenges/gaps
  • Understand challenges and barriers faced by key stakeholder groups (primarily employers and schools and colleges)
  • Create a proposal as to where the Company could add most value
  • Develop an implementation roadmap for each of the strategies, identifying a programme of work and setting up any appropriate structures and processes to support this

Key attributes:
  • Strategic thinker with experience developing strategies
  • Experience of market assessment, data analysis and some demonstrable experience of work within the educational policy field
  • Team player willing to work across departments
  • Creative problem solver able to work with incomplete and partial data sets to draw insights/conclusions that can be relied upon
  • Good communicator capable of distilling complex concepts into simple and digestible presentations