Overview
Career and Skills Progression Advisor
Fixed Term, Part Time
£25,081 to £27,653 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
Closing Date: 17th October 2025
Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for up to 12 months
This position has been classed as an anywhere worker role but has an expectation that the successful candidate will attend the office, in Harlow 1 day per week, with the remaining time for remote working if desired, in line with the organisation’s needs
Please note this is a part time position working should be 18.5 hours per week and the pro rata salary will be £13,826.50 per annum.
The Role
Candidate needs to be flexible to travel to centres and outreach within 25 miles.
The Opportunity
Adult Community Learning (ACL) is ECC’s provider of lifelong learning experiences for Essex residents. ACL offers qualifications to help people move nearer to, enter, or progress within the workplace or gain skills to enhance life chances. The Career and Skills Progression Advisor assists the Quality and Compliance Team in a customer-facing role, actively engaging with future and existing learners at ACL to support them in achieving their goals and move into positive destinations including further learning, volunteering, or employment.
Accountabilities
- Provide high quality and impartial information, advice and guidance to existing and potential learners including bespoke provision for ACL learners who are actively looking for work, using effective referral processes and signposting to both internal and external support.
- Facilitate self-directed learning opportunities within ACL centres as well as frontline support to learners accessing face to face, online and blended learning, using digital devices and platforms such as Microsoft Teams.
- Raise learner aspirations, identifying individual needs, and providing support to participate in learning opportunities, gain employment, or progression in work.
- Develop and maintain high quality information resources for learners and stakeholders, both in centre and online.
- Establish and deliver innovative ways to support ACL staff to access resources that will support staff, including keeping up to date with local labour market intelligence.
- Work to meet the requirements of the Education Inspection Framework and Matrix Standard.
The Experience You Will Bring
- Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance practitioner, with a relevant qualification at Level 2 or equivalent by experience.
- Well-developed organisational skills.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area, including the adult learning sector.
- Experience of working in a customer-focussed environment with excellent communication skills.
- Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance practitioner, with a relevant qualification at Level 2 or equivalent by experience.
- Well-developed organisational skills.
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area, including the adult learning sector.
- Experience of working in a customer-focussed environment with excellent communication skills.
Desirable:
- Experience of coaching and mentoring.
- High level working knowledge of IT and in particular Microsoft packages including Teams, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Ability to collect data, interrogate it and provide evaluative reports based on an analysis of the findings.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
