Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About the Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to advance your career? Harrogate College are currently hiring an Employer Support and Recruitment Co-ordinator. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to make a real difference in the future of apprenticeships through a business development role.
You will be joining a well-established and expanding apprenticeship team, working with more than 100 employers and partners across a variety of sectors. In this role, you’ll help drive growth, strengthen relationships, and deliver impactful apprenticeship and training solutions.
If you’re commercially minded, confident in working with clients, and enjoy a consultative approach to sales, this position offers autonomy, meaningful work, and strong long-term prospects.
What You Will Do
- Responsible for driving sales and employer engagement activity across North Yorkshire (Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Boroughbridge, York).
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Take ownership of your own sectors, manage a pipeline of opportunities, build long-term partnerships, and deliver a first-class consultative sales experience to employers.
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Deliver a consultative sales approach across apprenticeship and training solutions, manage a pipeline to meet targets, and present compelling proposals to clients.
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Build and maintain strong, long-term partnerships with employers, stakeholders, and industry contacts through regular meetings and engagement.
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Gather and share market intelligence, and represent the organisation at events, exhibitions, and promotional activities.
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Keep CRM records accurate and up to date, and contribute to team meetings and wider organisational initiatives.
About You
- Proven experience in Employer Engagement, Business Development, or Sales within the Further Education sector, with a strong track record of achieving performance targets.
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Proven consultative sales skills with the ability to influence and build credibility at all levels.
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Strong communication skills with the confidence and experience to deliver engaging presentations to a wide range of stakeholders, both in person and via online platforms.
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Self-motivated, target-driven, and commercially aware
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Comfortable managing your own sectors
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Full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle
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Solid understanding of the Further Education landscape, with particular insight into the delivery and development of apprenticeship programmes.
Why Apply?
This is more than a sales role it’s an opportunity to play a key part in developing future talent, supporting businesses, and contributing to long-term skills growth across the region. You’ll be joining an organisation with a strong reputation, clear growth plans, and a genuine commitment to developing both its learners and its people.
About Us
Harrogate College has excellent facilities and provides a professional and friendly environment. We pride ourselves on working closely with employers, the local community and other stakeholders to provide curriculum and support that meets the needs of our students. We are working towards becoming a recognised centre of green excellence which is supported through our sustainability pledge to become a net zero college by 2035.
We have recently been awarded £16m of government funding to transform our campus. The energy-efficient new building will include a workshop unit that provides large scale facilities aligned to industry needs including advanced manufacturing, low carbon construction, retrofit, sustainable energy and bioeconomy, health science and hospitality. This will complement the college’s existing tech centre which is home to its motor vehicle, electrical, joinery and welding workshops.
Choosing to work for Harrogate College means that you will be part of a nurturing, inclusive and progressive learning environment. We hope that we will be part of the next step in your career and look forward to welcoming you to Harrogate College.
SAFEGUARDING
At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.
EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity.
Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.
RECRUITMENT AGENCIES
We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.
