Location
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames with travel across five boroughs

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£38,976 - £47,229 per annum

About the Role
As the Alternative Provision Work Experience (AP WEX) Facilitator, you will play a key role in creating meaningful work experience opportunities for young people who face additional barriers to education, employment, and training. Working across alternative provision settings, employers, and system partners, you will build strong relationships, understand the needs of young people, and broker high-quality opportunities that are inclusive, flexible, and aligned to progression.

This is an exciting new opportunity for someone who enjoys working across systems, influencing stakeholders, and creating solutions that improve outcomes for young people. You will work directly with employers to help them design accessible opportunities and build confidence in engaging with alternative provision learners, ensuring every young person can develop skills, confidence, and aspirations for the future.

Key responsibilities include managing a caseload of alternative provision settings across South London, building and maintaining strong employer relationships, acting as a broker between employers and education providers, supporting employers to design inclusive workplace experiences, undertaking needs analysis, and working collaboratively with schools, providers, and Careers Hub colleagues to maximise participation and progression outcomes. You will use data, feedback, and insight to identify gaps, target interventions, and improve access to opportunities, helping create a more equitable careers and work experience system for young people across South London.

This is a fixed term role until 31st August 2027 and offers a hybrid working model.

Experience
- Proven experience engaging, influencing, and building productive relationships with employers and a wide range of stakeholders to secure work experience commitments and deliver positive outcomes.
- Experience identifying, developing, and converting work experience opportunities, managing pipelines, and negotiating solutions that meet both employer and learner needs.
- Experience supporting young people who face barriers to progression and working with employers to create inclusive, accessible, and high-quality work experience opportunities.
- Ability to assess stakeholder needs, identify gaps, and translate insight into practical solutions.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to challenge perceptions and encourage new approaches.
- Experience managing programmes, projects, or caseloads using data and insight to prioritise activity, monitor performance, and improve outcomes.

About you
You are proactive, relationship-focused, and passionate about inclusion. You see potential where others see barriers and are motivated by building partnerships, influencing change, and ensuring every young person has access to meaningful experiences of work.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated; however, relevant experience in employer engagement, inclusion, and programme management is essential.