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 | Employer Engagement. Recruitment. Real Impact.
Permanent Contract | 37 Hours per Week | 52 Weeks per Year
Salary: £31,255 - £32,186 plus performance-related commission of up to 20% - OTE £37,506 - £38,623
Interview date: TBC
Do you enjoy building relationships, identifying opportunities and achieving ambitious targets?
We're looking for a motivated and proactive professional to join our Employer Engagement team. This is a varied role focused on developing partnerships with local employers, promoting apprenticeships and training opportunities, and supporting businesses to recruit and develop talent.
This isn't a desk-based administrative role. You'll spend your time speaking with employers, identifying workforce needs, generating opportunities and helping people access rewarding careers through apprenticeships and training.
Whether your background is in recruitment, account management, sales, customer success, business development or employer engagement, we'd love to hear from you.
At Bath College, you'll play a key role in helping employers address skills gaps while creating life-changing opportunities for students and apprentices across our region.
Why Join Us?
We're building a high-performing Employer Engagement team that helps businesses grow, develops future talent and creates life-changing opportunities through apprenticeships.
Our approach is simple: P.R.O.U.D.
Professional. Relationship Driven. Opportunity Focused. Understanding Employer Needs. Delivering Solutions.
What you'll get:
- £31,255 - £32,186 salary
- Up to 20% commission (OTE up to £38,623)
- Autonomy to build your own employer relationships
- A role where no two days are the same
- The chance to make a genuine impact on businesses, apprentices and students across our region
If you're motivated by building relationships, achieving results and making a difference, we'd love to hear from you.
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
Sound like you?
If you want a role where you can:
- Hit targets
- Earn more through performance
- Build relationships
- And make a real impact
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 further education college with two campuses, one in the centre of Bath and one in 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.
