This is your opportunity to join the GLA’s Skills and Employment Unit to support the Unit in fulfilling the Mayor’s role to promote and deliver skills and employment policy and deliver the manifesto commitments on these policy areas. The Unit is also responsible for the management and delivery of the devolved Adult Education Budget (AEB) in London.
The GLA is looking for eight people to join the Skills and Employment Unit to help support the realisation of the Mayor’s manifesto commitments to:
· Develop a city-wide, strategic approach to skills.
· Map the skills gap and commission programmes to create a pipeline of skilled London workers to make the most of the opportunities in London’s growth sectors.
· Establish a tech talent pipeline, through the Skills for Londoners taskforce.
· Support the development of, and protect schemes which expand opportunities for people with disabilities to work and gain skills.
· Be a champion for London’s neglected FE sector.
· Seek a devolution deal over further education which recognises the strategic importance of a London-wide approach to FE, aligned with the needs of employers and students.
· Promote the take-up of Adult Learning loans.
The eight roles will provide effective and comprehensive administrative and project support in the GLA’s Skills and Employment Unit, focussing on specific functions, i.e. strategy development, funding policy and five in programme delivery.
You will also be supporting the Unit’s work in preparing for devolution of the 19+ Adult Education Budget (AEB) to the Mayor in 2019/20 and take on responsibility for a range of GLA corporate tasks including coordinating the Team’s input to monthly Mayor’s Question Time meetings and six monthly People’s Question Time events, allocating public correspondence to team members to reply, drafting responses to the more straightforward issues, responding to Freedom of Information requests, and monitoring the fulfilment of manifesto commitments.
You will need to be confident in establishing relationships with a range of stakeholders, including officers from government departments, the skills sector, business representative bodies, boroughs and the Mayor’s Office. You will also need to work accurately with good attention to detail in raising purchase orders via the finance system and producing, maintaining and distributing project documentation. Experience of using Microsoft Office including word-processing, PowerPoint and Excel will be essential in carrying out the range of duties assigned to these eight roles.
Please read the JOB DESCRIPTION and PERSON SPECIFICATION
London's diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London's diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We would welcome applications from candidates who are seeking part time work as this role is open to job share.
In addition to a good salary package, we offer an attractive range of benefits including 30 days’ annual leave, interest free season ticket loan, interest free bicycle loan, childcare voucher scheme and a career average pension scheme.
If you have a question about the role or the recruitment process then please contact a member of the recruitment team via email on glajobs@london.gov.uk quoting reference GLA0886
Application closing date: Friday 2 February 2018 at 23:59 GMT
Interviews will take place at: City Hall on: Thursday 22 February Friday 23 February & Thursday 1 March 2018