Work Placement and Educational Visits Manager

Based at the Writtle campus, you will lead and manage the College's work placement, industry placement and educational visits service, ensuring learners benefit from safe, inclusive and high-quality experiences that enhance their learning, personal development and career progression. You will oversee a team of Work Placement Coordinators and administrative staff, providing leadership and direction to support the delivery of placements across a wide range of curriculum areas, whilst maintaining robust systems, compliance and quality assurance processes.

You will act as the operational lead for educational visits, including residential and overseas activities, coordinating planning and approval processes, providing expert advice to staff, and supporting the safe management of visits. Working closely with curriculum teams, employers and external partners, you will help expand and improve opportunities for learners, ensuring placements and visits meet educational objectives while complying with safeguarding, health and safety, and regulatory requirements.

We are looking for an organised and proactive manager with experience of coordinating work placements, industry placements, educational visits or a similar service within an education, training or youth-focused environment. You will have experience of leading teams, managing competing priorities and building strong relationships with employers, staff, learners and external stakeholders.

With excellent communication, organisational and problem-solving skills, you will be confident interpreting policies and procedures, managing risk, analysing performance data and implementing improvements. You will have a strong understanding of safeguarding, health and safety and duty of care responsibilities, alongside the ability to respond effectively to complex situations and changing priorities. Experience of working in further education, managing externally funded programmes, T Level industry placements or educational visits would be advantageous.

This is a rewarding opportunity to play a key role in enhancing learner experiences, developing employer partnerships and ensuring outstanding outcomes for students across the College.

You will hold a degree and appropriate level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development relevant to the role, or be part qualified in a relevant professional qualification and appropriate level of experience and evidence of continuing professional development.

ARU offers an agile working culture and an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement, occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package.

All appointments at ARU Writtle are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Children's Barred List check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This role is considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020.