Hazel Kindley Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Maintain a strategic overview of all Careers Education, Information Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) activities within the college, ensuring that internal priorities and activities are in line with current national education and CEIAG policy and research, including the Gatsby Benchmarks. Monitor quality of activities and their impact on student development and progression, ensuring that key performance indicators such as destinations data and retention are analysed and key trends identified. Line-manage an outstanding Guidance Team consisting of six staff members working across the sub-teams of Careers, Work Placements and Realising Aspirations. Manage a five figure budget, ensuring that all expenditure presents excellent value for money. Successfully managed change following extensive restructure in 2015 that led to the creation of the Guidance Team, ensuring that team cohesion was developed and strategy and projects were developed to better meet combined aims and objectives.Oversee the Realising Aspirations, a unique and innovative university preparation programme that aims to provide students with experience of university style learning, broaden subject knowledge and develop academic skills. Oversee the college Careers Service, ensuring that all students receive outstanding guidance and support to progress to the next stage of their education,and careers. Manage the Work Placements team which engages with over 350 employers and placement providers to secure over 800 student placements annually. Create excellent working relationships with all stakeholders, both internally and externally. Project manage a number of large scale of internal and external careers events, bringing together contributors from the local area and around the UK. Develop a employer engagement strategy to encourage academic institutions and businesses to offer impactful opportunities for our students.

Develop and maintain a strong and varied enrichment and offer for all students. Ensure that all activities are impactful and aid student development and skills acquisition.Project manage two student enrichment days providing enrichment trips and activities for up to 2000 students. Have responsibility for all event logistics and allocating staffing. Ensure risk management and health and safety policies and procedures are adhered to.Work with a number of external providers and internal departments to secure high quality opportunities for students, such as academic mentoring for local school pupils, Digital Ambassador positions and Young Enterprise.

Ashton Under Lyne

Provided Maternity Cover for academic years 2013-14 and 2018/19. Developed and maintained strong relationships with schools, potential students, parents, and community groups within Tameside and the local area. Promoted the College’s 16-19 provision by building effective relationships with schools, external stakeholders and potential students and parents. Developed an Annual Liaison Strategy and worked with schools to develop bespoke activities to support the smooth transition of students to the college. Managed and organised a programme of over 40 liaison and admissions events throughout the recruitment cycle, including three large scale open events, interviews, enrolment and careers exhibitions. Responsible for all aspects of event logistics including creating well-designed and effective programmes, liaising with venues and catering, staff deployment and designing event materials.Created a comprehensive multichannel marketing and communications strategy (website, social media, direct mail, email) to ensure key messages communicated effectively and consistently. Wrote compelling press releases and created strong relationships with the local press.Consistently met and exceeded recruitment targets, ensuring that EFA funding levels maintained. Managed the administration of admissions, ensuring that all applications and enquiries were dealt with by the appropriate person and in a timely manner and that excellent advice and guidance was given at all stages of admissions.Communicated directly with customers, via phonecalls, social media and presentations, building a rapport and inspiring confidence in the department and college.Researched and designed sector specific labour market leaflets including key employers and case studies. Produced marketing materials and resources including leaflets, booklets and blogs containing key messages about the college. Created content for marketing materials including the college website, social media and newsletters.

Worked collaboratively with other members of the Progression Team to coordinate all Progression, Careers, IAG and Work-Based Learning activities within the school. Provided one-to-one information, advice and guidance interviews for students in Years 9, 10 and 11. Gave information on educational progression routes and options at age 14 and 16. Advised students on post-16 options and support students to make decisions about which subjects and qualifications to take after school.Created and delivered innovative and engaging group IAG sessions on topics such as Y9 options and routes to higher education. Communicated information clearly and concisely and managed group dynamics to ensure that students take in the information and advice provided.Liaised with local Higher Education Institutions to create an aspiration and awareness raising programme of events for students. Worked autonomously and make decisions about the most appropriate activities for different cohorts. Encouraged participation to ensure activities are well attended. Evaluated the impact and success of these programmes.

Liaised with staff within local schools and colleges to develop a bespoke menu of information, advice and guidance (IAG) activities to raise awareness of FE and HE options within the Aimhigher cohort. Worked collaboratively with the eight other members of the Graduate Officer team on joint projects and events. This included working together to brainstorm ideas for and design a group session delivered to over 300 year 9 students from around Greater Manchester.Lead many Graduate Officer collaborative projects such as the production of a raising aspirations strategy for schools and colleges.Developed and delivered training and CPD workshops for student ambassadors, school staff and Connexions PAs. Managed a support programme for Looked After Children called the 'Shining Stars Club'. Controlled a four-figure budget which was used to fund a series of extra-curricular events. Arranged all the logistics of the activities e.g. transport, obtaining consent and preparing risk assessments. Liaised with staff within the Virtual School to encourage participation.Regularly briefed and lead teams of FE & HE Student Ambassadors within large events. Organised Ambassadors workloads and responsibilities effectively to ensure that events ran smoothly. Acted as a supervisor to troubleshoot any problems that came up.Represented Aimhigher at staff development events, career resource fairs and regional events. Taking these opportunities to build up a network of professionals from different institutions and services who I could later liaise with for projects and information.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Assisted with the organisation and running of large scale careers events. Engaged with and reached out to students at these fairs and events to promote the service and ensure that students were aware of, and felt comfortable using, the help available to them.Prioritised my own workload, with the assistance of my managers, for projects such as information updating to ensure currency, stock control as well as supporting other members of my team. I was self motivated to ensure that these projects are completed in a timely manner even when there was no set deadline.Created engaging content for careers communications and materials and acted as a guest blogger on the department blog.

Level 6 Advanced Diploma, Career Development (Accredited Careers Leader Training)

Developing Your Talent, Leadership Development Programme, Outstanding Pass

Nvq 3 & 4 Advice And Guidance And Applying To Higher Education Advisors Certificate (Masters Level)

Qualified in Advice and Guidance up to NVQ Level 4 with a speciality in pathways to Higher Education

Bsc, Mathematics, 2:2

Activities and Societies: University of Manchester Water Polo Club, President of the University of Manchester Water Polo Club, Social.

Education record

A Levels in Mathematics (A), Computing (A) and Further Mathematics (C)

Education record

10 GCSE's A*-A including Mathematics, Statistics, Double Science, English Language and English Literature