Education, Employment & Training (EET) Progression Lead

Benefits

• Leave Entitlement: 25 days and 8 bank holidays
• Training and Development (CPD): £750
• Company Pension
• Death in Service Insurance Cover
• Well-being and Company Events
• Health benefits package
• External supervision
• External employee's assistance helpline
• Internal CPD programme

Responsibilities and Duties

This opportunity will see the successful candidate take a formal role in representing the charity and our ambitions, with a specific focus on our long-term outcome and impact goals. It will enable skill and knowledge and behaviours that embody the ‘sister system way’ to manage a small but complex caseload, oversee cohorts of brilliant but complex young women and work alongside other mentors as their line manager.

This role also includes safeguarding leadership duties and the EET Progression Lead would also be a Designated Safeguarding Officer.

Duties include, but are not exclusive to:

To ensure that each young women’s stage three programme, enables, enhances, and empowers her towards the following outcomes:

• Enhances her ability to engage in opportunities around Employment and FE & HE readiness
• Enables healthy relationships so she can live abuse free
• Empowers her with qualifications and ambitions to enter EET pathways –
• Ensures at least 70% of stage three graduates with at least two accredited qualifications and a portfolio
• Provides the resources and support to identify and progresses through one of our EET exit pathways

Teaching & Delivery

• Work with the Director of Learning & Impact and Programmes Manager to Lead on the oversight and implementation of Sister System’s programme scheme of work of resources and planning of all stage three outputs & activities
• Deliver in 1:1 and in groups to learners for accredited work and resilience workshops against programme outputs in line with outcomes
• Working with varied assessment methods, in person & via MS Teams
• Support and manage mentors to deliver workshops within stage outputs
• Assessment
• Work closely with the Internal Quality Assurer (IQA) to ensure that resources and assessment are appropriate
• Assess learner work every 2 weeks where necessary
• Work with Sister System’s pool of contracted assessors to ensure learners progress through assessment feedback

Administration

• Work with Learning & Development Lead and Programmes Coordinator to ensure that accredited courses have the correct programme naming convention
• Work with Learning & Development Lead to ensure completed work has been submitted to OCN at the end of each academic year
• Log communication & interventions & engagement with all stage three learners on CRM

Resources

• Ensure that differentiated resources are prepared for accredited workshops
• Ensure and approve delivery models and schemes of work
• Ensure that resources meet the requirement of the programmes
• Supporting with the scheduling – and allocation - of Advice, Information and Guidance workshops & their internal delivery to meet mentees needs

Management

• Liaise with the Programmes Manager and Programmes Coordinator on programme delivery for programmes outputs including AIG’s
• Liaise with assessors regarding assessment of learner progression and completion of paperwork
• Assess readiness of mentees transitioning from Stage Two to Three with the relevant team members, i.e. Mentors and Learning & Development Lead.

Communications

• Liaise with relevant departments on the communication of programme deliverables, incentives and amendments for workshop and events in partnership with Programme Coordinator.
• Foster effective communication with Employment, FE and HE partners
• Willingness to communicate and present with external partners

Line Management/Supervisor:

• To act as line manager to Mentors, using the relevant supervision templates to guide mentors to effectively fulfil their objectives as Sister System employees, and to support on their personal development and progression.
• Review mentors' data completion and engagement with mentees to empower them towards mentee progression on all stage two deliverables
• To liaise with and support the Programme Manager in the relationships between Sister System and Local Authorities and Education Settings (referring organisations) on referrals and learner progression

Work Readiness

• Develop strategies, resources and partnerships to help mentees overcome barriers to employment, training or education
• Develop and manage work related partnerships for experiences, internships & employment
• Develop and manage FE and HE partnerships for education pathways
• Secure professional volunteers, Trustees or directly provide advice on potential careers and entry level requirements
• Secure professional volunteers, Trustees, identify and share opportunities on or directly advise on current job market
• Source, screen and select volunteer Coaches for 6 x 1:1 session – sector and interest specific to mentee

Employer Engagement

• Develop and maintain strong Employer relationships
• Research and source work experience placement opportunities with employer network
• Develop and sourcing Taster days with employment partners
• Develop and partnering on bespoke entry level pathways into Employment, Training or Further or Higher Education
• Engage employers in employment fairs and careers round tables
• Develop Taster days and visits and trips with education partners

Impact

• Liaise with team to design and complete exit review forms at the end of every academic year, collecting and sharing impact data with team.
• Liaise with team to design and complete 6 & 12-month follow-up review forms, collecting and sharing impact data with team.

Caseload management

• Holding a caseload of up to 20 mentees in stage three who have SEN
• Delivering and progressing identified number through to graduation
• Delivering and progressing identified number through to EET pathway

Generic expectations

The role involves ensuring all paperwork is completed according to Sister Systems' delivery model, recording sessions, maintaining up-to-date administration, adhering to policies and procedures, attending and facilitating internal and external supervision, aiding the smooth running of the programme, acting as an ambassador for Sister System, and completing other duties as deemed necessary.

Essential Skills, knowledge, and behaviours:

• Relevant qualifications in education, learning and development, therapeutic disciplines, safeguarding, and mental health.
• Experience in delivering assessing accredited programmes
• Experience in assessing the needs of young people and enabling them to achieve academic success
• Experience working with SEN needs
• Experience working with SEMH needs
• Ability to lead and work productively as part of a team
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Experience working with young people with emotional or mental health challenges.
• Experience in delivering 1:1 and small group work to care experienced and social care affected girls and young women (13–24 years).
• Experience working within a contextual safeguarding context.
• Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders and partners.

Please note that this is a site-based role, and the Leads are expected to be on-site.

Interview Timelines

• Applications are open from 10 – 27 June 2025
• Interviews will begin from 8 – 11 July 2025

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Pay: £37,000.00-£41,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Location:

• London (required)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 27/06/2025
Reference ID: Education, Employment & Training (EET) Progression Lead
Expected start date: 21/07/2025