The Role
Develop employer relationships to create apprenticeship opportunities; source, support and place candidates; manage a pipeline of vacancies and applicants; promote roles via events, campaigns and outreach; meet clear measurable targets in a high‑pace, sales‑driven recruitment environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
Bath College | Sales. Recruitment. Real Impact.
Permanent contract, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year
Interview date: TBC
Love targets? Thrive on results? Want a role that actually makes a difference?
We’re building a high-energy, target-driven recruitment team, and we want people who get a buzz from hitting goals, building relationships and making things happen.
This is not a passive admin role. This is sales + recruitment + employer engagement combined.
Bath College is an inclusive education and training community, providing learning for people with a wide range of abilities from a far-reaching area, from entry level to Level 5 programmes. We are committed to meeting the needs of all our students. This is a very exciting time to join the College.
If you feel you can make a positive contribution, please complete the application form, making sure you detailing how your qualifications, skills and experience meet the requirements of the role.
The job posting can close as soon as sufficient applications have been received.
What you'll be doing
- Working with employers to create apprenticeship opportunities
- Sourcing, supporting and placing candidates into roles
- Managing your own pipeline of vacancies and applicants
- Promoting opportunities through events, campaigns and outreach
- Delivering against clear, measurable targets
You’ll be busy. You’ll be stretched. You’ll be rewarded.
What we’re looking for:
You might come from:
- Recruitment (agency or in-house)
- Apprenticeships or FE
- Sales, account management or business development
- An ITP or training provider
But what really matters is mindset.
You’ll be:
- Target-driven — you enjoy being measured and achieving results
- Great with people — confident with employers and candidates
- Organised and resilient — you manage multiple priorities
- Proactive — you don’t wait for opportunities, you create them
- Competitive (in a good way) — you want to be the best
Why join us?
At Bath College, we’re building a modern apprenticeship and employer engagement function, one that feels more like a high-performing sales environment.
We:
- Work at pace
- Celebrate success
- Support each other
- Focus on outcomes, not process
Most importantly — what you do matters.
Every placement you make is a career started.
Sound like you?
If you want a role where you can:
- Hit targets
- Earn more through performance
- Build relationships
- And make a real impact
We’d love to hear from you.
What you’ll get
- Salary + up to 20% Performance Related Pay (PRP)
- A supportive but high-expectation team environment
- Real ownership of your pipeline and performance
- The chance to genuinely change people’s career paths
Please see attached for the full Job Description and Person Specification
Staff Benefits
- Generous paid holiday entitlement of 30 days, exclusive of College closure days and public holidays. Pro rata for part time roles.
- One Selfie Day per year
- Contributory salary pension scheme (Local Government)
- Continuing Professional Development for all staff
- Laptop Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Private Healthcare Scheme
- £500 Refer a friend and earn a reward
- Subsidised cafes - at both campuses
- Employee Assistance Programme – Staff have access to this programme. It is a free and strictly confidential short-term counselling and support service (up to six meetings after an initial assessment session with a qualified counselor)
- The College offers an eye sight test for anyone who meets the criteria as described within the Health and Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations.
- Progressive family friendly policies (exceeding statutory requirements) that supports a health work/life balance, all staff are entitled to request flexible working.
- Discounted treatments at the Academy, Bath Campus
- Free parking at the Somer Valley Campus in Radstock
About
Welcome to Bath College, a vibrant and successful College with two campuses, one in the centre of Bath and one in the rural setting of Radstock.We pride ourselves on providing training for the region’s future workforce by offering courses in both vocational and traditional academic subjects to students from across Bath, Bristol, Somerset, Wiltshire and beyond.
Skills Required
- Experience in recruitment (agency or in-house), apprenticeships/FE, sales, account management or as a training provider
- Proven ability to work with employers to create apprenticeship opportunities
- Experience sourcing, supporting and placing candidates into roles
- Ability to manage own pipeline of vacancies and applicants
- Experience promoting opportunities through events, campaigns and outreach
- Target-driven with a demonstrable record of achieving measurable targets
- Strong interpersonal skills; confident engaging with employers and candidates
- Organised, resilient and able to manage multiple priorities
- Proactive, self-starter who creates opportunities rather than waiting for them
- Comfortable working in a high-performance, sales-oriented team environment
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The Company
What We Do
Bath College is a further education college in the centre of Bath, Somerset and in Westfield, Somerset, England. It provides innovative training to develop skills, inspire individuals, enrich the wider community and encourage all to achieve and progress.
