Job title:	SLN Personal Guidance Project Manager

Post number:	VC5035

Reports to:	Director, Sussex Learning Network (SLN) Department:	Research, Enterprise and Social Partnerships Location:	Hollingbury, Brighton
Grade:	6

Purpose of the role:
To implement, project manage and ensure the delivery of a suite of tailored personal guidance (whether on making career choices, continuing in education or other support interventions) to young people in schools across Sussex. The programme, the SLN Personal Guidance Fund, is a new one and the Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring its delivery, liaising regularly with Elev8Careers, a careers and education company, to ensure necessary training and resources are provided to schools to support it. 

The programme’s five overarching aims are below:

1.	To provide every pupil with at least one personal guidance interview with a trained advisor pre 16 and post 16 (if sixth form)
2.	To support and improve the impact of personal guidance interviews by providing a programme of wrap-around interventions pre and post interview
3.	To upskill professional advisors as well as offering a suite of continuous professional development opportunities and resources to both teachers and/or support staff to enable more meaningful engagement with the guidance process
4.	To support schools at a strategic level to better integrate Personal Guidance with the other Gatsby Benchmarks; contributing towards meeting Ofsted requirements
5.	Use technology to embed a sustainable and effective communication strategy and powerful knowledge careers network for the region.

Main areas of responsibility:

•	To be responsible for setting up and managing the SLN Personal Guidance Fund project and ensuring it fulfils its objectives and KPIs, including the budget of £290k.
•	To be the primary Single Point of Contact for the project which enables a range of stakeholders to learn about the project and access its services.
•	To work with partners to devise and deliver a large scale social media campaign.
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•	To devise an appropriate project management methodology for the programme which describes the processes, checkpoints, key stakeholders, including oversight of risks and issues, and to be responsible for implementing, managing and monitoring the project plan to ensure effective delivery. 
•	To produce regular reports identifying progress against tasks, deliverables and milestones to ensure programme delivery.
•	To work with key stakeholders to ascertain what training for Advisors is required and arrange for it to be accessed or delivered
•	To develop and implement a method for effectively collecting and analysing large volumes of data to track progress and evaluate the development of the project and report back to the funder and the SLN Board.
•	To arrange, attend and contribute to project and stakeholder meetings, workshops and external events.
•	To ensure effective and ongoing programme communications by preparing and distributing a range of written work, and recording and circulating minutes of meetings held with internal and external stakeholders
•	To be fully responsible for managing and reporting on the project budget – income and expenditure; payment of invoices and expenses; maintaining appropriate levels for funding project activity; cross-charging and producing financial reports as required
•	To work with partners to ensure that Personal Guidance Fund activity is effectively communicated across the stakeholder network through appropriate media channels, connecting it into initiatives being delivered by Universities, colleagues, LEPs and Local Authorities across Sussex to ensure its development and sustainability.
General responsibilities:

These are standard to all University of Brighton job descriptions.

•	To undertake other duties appropriate to the grade and character of work as may be reasonably required, including specific duties of a similar or lesser grade.
•	To adhere to the University’s Equality and Diversity Policy in all activities, and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible.
•	To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act.
•	To work in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulations.
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The person specification focuses on the knowledge, qualifications, experience and skills (both general and technical) required to undertake the role effectively. Please ensure that your application demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria. You will be assessed by your completed application form (A), at interview (I) and in some instances through an exercise (E).

Essential criteria		A, I, E	
Knowledge	•	Understanding of education community and the sector, specifically schools; understanding of the public sector;
•	Ability to develop and partnership projects – negotiation skills to develop beneficial partnership arrangements; competence in establishing and monitoring levels of contribution agreed with partners and ability to develop and
•	Oral communication skills with an ability to engage others and to explain complex processes and procedures, and produce and deliver professional presentations.
•	Ability to handle sensitive communications with people from very different sectors, levels of seniority; creation and maintenance of partner relationships; ability to facilitate the development of a ‘learning community’
•	Clear, concise, timely and appropriate written communication skills to produce correspondence, resources and reports
•	The role requires  strong organisation and prioritisation skills with an ability to work autonomously
•	Analytical skills to be able to analyse complex data
•	Project management skills
•	Confident and professional manner, and tactful, diplomatic, empathetic and calm under pressure
•	Creative thinker with an ability to use initiative to identify problems and devise solutions.	A, I

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A, I, E

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Qualifications	•	A degree or equivalent experience	A	
Experience	•	Proven project management experience
•	Budget management experience
•	Event planning and administration
•	Adaptive to change and uses initiative to identify problems and devise solutions	A, I A A, I

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Technical/work based skills	•	Computer literate and proficiency with Microsoft Office
•	Financial planning, monitoring and reporting
•	Data collection and analysis	A, I A A	
Other requirements	•	N/A		

The Sussex Learning Network (SLN), is a unique, strategic educational partnership of 3 Universities, 5 Further Education Colleges, 3 Local Authorities, 2 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), 34 schools and a fellow network of independent training providers, along with Elev8Careers, a careers guidance and education company based in Brighton. It has recently secured funding from the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) Personal Guidance Fund to deliver this programme.

•	This is a part time post and is fixed-term to 30/09/2020.
•	Any appointment is generally made at the bottom of the salary range for the grade dependent upon experience and previous salary.
•	Annual leave entitlements are shown in the table below and increase after 5 years’ service. In addition, to the eight Bank Holidays, there are university discretionary days between Christmas and New Year. All leave, including bank holidays and discretionary days, is pro-rated for part time employees.

Grades	Basic entitlement per year	Grades	After 5 years’ service	
1-3	23 days	1-3	28 days	
4-7	25 days	4-7	30 days	
8-9	27 days	8-9	30 days	

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Date:  March 2019