Community Education Facilitator, PL & D Co-ordinator

Job Title: Community Education Facilitator – Professional Learning and Development (PL&D) Co ordinator

Contract Type: Temporary, One Year Contract

Key Duties/Areas of Responsibility:

• Maintain an ethos appropriate to adult learning (and FET)
• Develop GRETB Professional Development (PD) strategies, in line with GRETBs strategic priorities, which fully support the strategic priorities of FET and the National FET Professional Learning and Development: Statement of Strategy. in consultation with FET Senior Management team.
• Promote organisational wide PD. Plan and deliver targeted PD provision for the wider Organisation, having an appreciation of the benefits of integrating PD across all sections of the Organisation; developing of themes for the year for all staff to include Inclusion, Wellness and Environment.
• Providing support to new and existing PD initiatives in the form of technical, administrative, and educational inputs.
• Helping PD interests to access funding.
• Plan the provision of effective targeted PD programmes across GRETB which best meet the needs of staff/programmes/centres/FET and GRETB;
•    Conduct a Training Needs Analysis and Skills Audit of Staff in GRETB
•   Maintain a calendar of GRETB strategic PD activities
•   Implement a system for recording and tracking system for professional learning and development activity for staff of GRETB.
• Employ continuous improvement models to allow for effective planning, implementation, review and evaluation of the PD service;
•    Monitor initiatives, reporting to the FET Manager on developments and provision
• Develop and encourage partnerships and links between internally between staff and departments within GRETB and externally with statutory and other providers
•  Initiate and facilitate FET programmes and initiatives.
• Liaise with colleagues on project development, quality assurance, accreditation, and certification issues
• Share good practice from the sector and supporting the mainstreaming of relevant lessons into national policy and practice
•  Develop project plans, reports and adhere to funding requirements
•  Networking of groups, both nationally and locally, supporting participation in Professional Learning and Development and facilitating a co-ordinated input from the sector
• Assisting in the management of resources, e.g. financial, premises, materials, personnel etc as appropriate, relevant to the needs of the local programme

Further Information is available in the information booklet.