IAG Advisors - Brockley, London

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.

Do you have experience of supporting young people and/or adults with Information, Advice and Guidance?

We are looking for an excellent and enthusiastic IAG Advisers to work within our Learner Experience team.

The role involves supporting our students at Lewisham College with their employability skills such as CV writing, job applications and interview preparation as well as providing excellent advice around job opportunities, careers, next steps, apprenticeships and courses.

You will also be creating and displaying information materials in printed and digital formats. The postholder will provide support with organising and evaluating events and activities for students to support their employability, confidence, and skills development.

You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills, experience of working with people in support or guidance capacity and be very organised with good attention to detail.

Good digital skills are required, and you should have experience of working MS Office software such as Outlook, Excel, Word.

You will need to be a positive and resilient person as you will be working in a very busy department, interacting and supporting students.

Experience of delivering 1-1 support sessions and group presentations would be an advantage in this role, Disability Confident
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Lewisham College is a large further education college in London and we're proud of our reputation for producing knowledgeable, successful students with great employment potential. We offer an exciting range of work-focused courses, and provide a friendly, supportive learning environment where talent is nurtured.

We have achieved excellent results in recent years, but we know that we can only continue our success, and grow, by recruiting and retaining the best possible talent. We set out to employ staff with a genuine passion for further education and a commitment to ensuring all students achieve their potential, whatever barriers they need to overcome. Our people make a real difference not only to the lives of students, but also to local employers and the wider Lewisham community.

Every colleague has a valuable and important part to play here at Lewisham College and all of our employees are well-supported. We offer a wide range of staff development programmes, benefits and support all designed to enable our people to continually improve and reward them for their hard work and dedication. If you have a passion for education and its power to improve lives, and want to inspire young people and adults, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

Lewisham 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 Lewisham 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, Lewisham 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.