Job Description

About the role

Adult Education and Learning Engagement Officer


Bury Council's Adult Learning Service is seeking to recruit an Adult Education and Learning Engagement Officer. Promoting adult learning is at the heart of Bury's LET'S Do It! 2030 Strategy, which is an ambitious vision for delivering inclusive economic growth and reducing the levels of deprivation across the borough.


Joining the Learner Services team will give you the opportunity to develop, promote and support learning activities within communities, collaborating closely with the community and voluntary sector and other statutory organisations. The role will allow you to focus on engaging communities who may not be aware of adult education provision and/or present barriers that prevent them from accessing adult education provision.


We are looking for someone with a broad understanding of the full range of adult learning providers across Bury and experience of proactively engaging with communities and individuals described as being hard to reach and working with them to support access into learning and/or work.


The ideal candidate will be able to plan and focus engagement activity using analytical data and demographics to target hard to engage residents. They will work with partners from relevant services and agencies to ensure service delivery is effective and co-operative, value for money and does not duplicate or compete with other provision in the area. They will also engage in appropriate capacity building of voluntary groups within the community e.g. deliver basic confidence building training, team building activities, etc.


The ideal candidate will embody our LET'S Do It! values and will support putting learners at the centre of sharing in the success of our exciting plans to deliver excellent adult education for all the communities of our borough.


The post is for 37 hours per week based at the Adult Learning Centre in Bury but working flexibly to meet Service demands.

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.


Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.


As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Sue Scott on 0161 253 6830.