Careers and Work Experience Manager
King Alfred's, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 9BY21 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
3 November 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 October 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Fixed term
Full-time equivalent salary
- £34,434.00 - £37,280.00 Annually (FTE) Support Staff NJC Grade 9. Actual £29,454.31 - £31,888.74 (37 hours a week, 38 weeks - term time only)
Careers and Work Experience Manager job summary
We are seeking a dynamic and highly organised Careers and Work Experience Manager to lead and develop our careers education, information, advice and guidance provision. This is a key role in supporting our students to make informed decisions about their future pathways and ensuring they are well-prepared for life.
This role involves close collaboration with students, staff, parents, employers, and external agencies. A key focus will be ensuring the Academy meets all Gatsby Benchmarks while strengthening our valued partnerships with the local business community.
Strong interpersonal, organisational, and ICT skills are essential. The successful candidate will act as an ambassador for King Alfred’s, helping to shape and deliver impactful careers and work experience opportunities.
King Alfred’s is proud to be part of the Cambrian Learning Trust, a network of schools nurturing opportunities and career development. Collaboration is an important benefit of working at King Alfred’s, with students and staff benefitting from our work with Trust schools and other schools locally and regionally. King Alfred's Academy, Wantage, is easily commutable from Oxford, Swindon, Newbury, Abingdon and Didcot.
Benefits of working at KAA include:
- Full support for your professional development and future training needs (CPD)
- A commitment to recognise previous, continuous service.
- A generous holiday allowance which rises as you remain in employment.
- A commitment to offer flexible working whenever we can and to support the work-life balance of our employees
- A 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- A Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Opportunity to attend school residential trips from cultural visits to Normandy or Barcelona to skiing in Austria, Canada and the USA
- Complimentary fruit, tea and coffee and subsidised lunches
- Eligible for Blue Light discount card
- Optional gift on your birthday
- Free Parking
- Free Eye Care Voucher
- Subsidised gym membership
- Term Time only
Our mission statement is "Opportunity for All"; something we believe in passionately and strive to deliver to our staff and children every day. If you are keen to be part of a school with clear, positive values and believe that you meet the criteria for this role, then we look forward to hearing from you.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Kirsty Saull (Assistant Headteacher) on 01235 225700
The school reserves the right to consider and interview candidates ahead of the closing date if appropriate. An offer may be made to an exceptional candidate in this instance.
Cambrian Learning Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism; all staff must ensure that the highest priority is given to following the guidance and regulations to safeguard children and young people. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) as part of their job role.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
SAFER RECRUITMENT STATEMENT
King Alfred’s Academy and The Vale Academy Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and preventing extremism. We expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. All post holders in regulated activity are subject to appropriate vetting procedures and a satisfactory “Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Check.
Shortlisted candidates will be subject to online searches for publicly available information.
The Vale Academy Trust is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds to represent diversity in line with our schools’ community.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs will not be accepted for this application.
View advert on external website (opens in new tab)About King Alfred's
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1763 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- King Alfred's website
King Alfred’s is a learning community with a passionate, talented and dedicated staff, new and refurbished learning spaces for 21st century learning, the offer of an outstanding sixth form ranked amongst the best in the country, and a wealth of extra-curricular trips, visits and activities for students to enjoy as part of their wider learning outside the classroom.
Furthermore, King Alfred’s has an enviable reputation for providing outstanding quality and breadth of pastoral care to all students through an experienced and dedicated team of pastoral staff and student managers.
This enables students to develop as individuals with confidence and well-being throughout their school career. This strength of King Alfred’s was, quite rightly, recognised by inspectors in the recent Ofsted inspection when inspectors noted that: ‘Pupils’ welfare and safety has the highest priority. Personal, social and health education plays a key part in ensuring that pupils are happy, safe and very well cared for.’
Most importantly, for pupils making the transition from Year 6 to secondary education, West Site offers a bright, welcoming campus where they can make the change safely and happily into secondary education. The advantage of the bespoke KS3 site is that it offers a unique environment for them to make new friends, get to know a dedicated team of tutors and teachers, and adjust to the new phase of their educational lives. It is an environment in which our core values of Responsibility, Respect, Tolerance, Courage and Determination will be seen, experienced and lived consistently every day.
What is very evident throughout the school, is the impressive spirit and desire amongst the governors and staff to ensure that King Alfred’s Academy continues to grow and flourish to become the outstanding school of choice for the local community and beyond and that we truly can offer "Opportunity for All".
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