Location
Wood Green Library, 187 High Road, London, N22 6XD

Hours
36 hours per week

Salary
PO3 (£47,262 – £50,676)

Contract
Fixed term contract (24 months from start date)

Working Arrangements
Hybrid

About the Role
We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Migrant Communities Employment & ESOL Coordinator to help make Haringey’s employment, skills and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision more joined-up, responsive and effective for refugees, people seeking asylum and vulnerable migrant communities. You will combine hands-on resident support with borough-wide coordination. Working in a trauma-informed, strengths-based and culturally competent way, you will assess residents’ goals, skills, language needs, qualifications and barriers to work, then help them build realistic pathways through ESOL, volunteering, work experience, job trials and sustainable employment. You will also help residents navigate UK employment systems, workplace culture and the recognition of overseas qualifications. Alongside this casework, you will connect Haringey Works, Haringey Learns, the Resettlement Team, employers and external providers so that services operate as a coherent system. You will map provision, identify gaps and duplication, strengthen referral and progression routes, encourage employment-focused ESOL, and develop inclusive opportunities for residents with limited English or UK work experience. Accurate case records, outcome data and resident insight will be central to demonstrating impact and improving the offer.

About the Team
The role sits within Haringey Works, the Council’s employment delivery service, alongside Targeted Employment Advisers and reporting to the Haringey Works Specialist Team Leader. You will also work across the Resettlement Team and Haringey Learns, as well as with Housing, Benefits, Adult Social Care and other Council services. This is a highly collaborative role with strong links to employers, ESOL and skills providers, and voluntary, community and migrant-led organisations. Together, we aim to create welcoming and accessible pathways that recognise residents’ strengths, respond to migration-related barriers and support people to progress with confidence.

About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture. Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days plus bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Experience
Experience of supporting people from disadvantaged communities, people with complex needs or residents who are furthest from the labour market. Understanding of the barriers that refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants may face in accessing employment. Experience of employer engagement or job brokerage, partnership coordination, and using data or insight to improve services is desirable.

About You
You can build trust with people who may have limited English, disrupted education or experience of trauma while maintaining clear professional boundaries. You bring excellent communication, organisation and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to coordinate partners, influence provision and constructively challenge barriers. You understand recruitment practice, local employment and training pathways, ESOL progression and culturally responsive support. Creative, resilient and solutions-focused, you are able to manage competing priorities while keeping residents at the centre of your work. You share our commitment to safeguarding, equality, diversity, inclusion and continuous learning. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the UK’s immigration system.

Qualifications
No specific qualifications are listed; however, relevant experience and a commitment to the role’s values and responsibilities are essential.