Early Careers & Skills Development Practitioner (Submarines South)

Job title: Early Careers & Skills Development Practitioner (Submarines South)

Location: Frimley, Filton, Weymouth or Portsmouth – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £45,045 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing the development and delivery of our key education services activities across a range of Key Stages (Key Stage 3-5 and NEETS) including; work experiences and STEM based activities, which enhance local and national education initiatives. You will also be responsible for coordinating and training STEM ambassadors to deliver on our programmes
• Ensure an effective attractions and recruitment process is fully supported to deliver a high calibre resource to the business, inclusive of role profile development, careers presentations, careers fairs, interview scheduling, offer management and delivery of business wide attraction programmes such as; T-level placements, Women in Engineering and Movement to Work
• Management of key internal and external stakeholders to co-ordinate and align delivery against an Early careers Education & Skills Strategy, building effective relationships in our expanding outreach areas
• Acting as a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ within Education Services, providing proactive advice, guidance and support to all relevant operational areas and providers
• Lead on the effective reporting of service performance, producing regular reports and KPI updates
• Provide direction on policy and governance matters related to associated programmes, ensuring both corporate policies are adhered to and local policies are developed and maintained, including service reviews and improvement initiatives, in line with changing business and education requirements

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working with young people in community, charity or educational setting
• Qualifications or experience in careers, skills or STEM programmes
• Proven stakeholder management; including building new stakeholder relationships
• Experience of managing projects and exceptional presentation skills with good IT skills – All Microsoft packages
• Experience / knowledge of apprenticeship schemes

Desirable

• Coaching, training or teaching experience or experience of working within a similar role within an Early Careers

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Early Careers Team:

As part of the Shared Services team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

You will manage and deliver quality early careers and skills programmes for our UK businesses, which will give you the opportunity to support the selection of the future talent here at BAE Systems.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 20th June 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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