Your experience matters: Help Hertfordshire schools shape futures
We are currently looking for Enterprise Advisers for:
- Amwell View-Ware SLD Special School
- Knightsfield-WGC Hearing Impaired Special School
- Lakeside-WGC SLD Special School
- Greenside-Stevenage-SLD Special School
- Woodfield-Hemel Hemsptead SLD Special School
- Sir John Lawes-Harpenden
- St George’s-Harpenden
- Avanti Grange- Bishops Stortford
- Goffs Academy- Cheshunt
- John Warner School-Hoddesdon
- Chauncy-Ware
- St Mary’s Catholic-Bishops Stortford
- Hockerill-Bishops Stortford
- Bishops Stortford High School
- Bushey Meads-Bushey
As an Enterprise Adviser (EA) you would meet with the school you are matched with 3-4 times a year for an hour to help plan their careers programme and you would then have the opportunity to get involved within their careers activities such as give a careers talk, volunteer for a mock interview session, help with a mock assessment centre, host a visit for some students at your workplace, get involved in an enterprise competition or anything else careers related.
Are you someone interested in getting involved? A parent of someone who goes to a school in Hertfordshire who you would like to work closer with or alumni from a Hertfordshire school and would like to give something back? We would love to hear from you.
Who are Enterprise Advisers?
An Enterprise Adviser is:
- A business professional who comes from any industry sector or professional background, be that employed, self-employed or recently retired.
- Willing to volunteer their time to achieve positive change in local schools and colleges, using core skills including relationship building, influencing and strategic planning.
- Dedicated to making a lasting impact on the futures of young people.
For more details, read the Enterprise Adviser role description.
What will you be doing?
Enterprise Advisers help build capacity and capabilities in schools, special schools, and colleges. By working with Careers Leaders and Education Leaders, you will:
- Raise the quality of careers provision.
- Help connect with more employers and increase high quality experiences for young people.
- Develop the knowledge and skills of Careers Leaders and Education Leaders.
- Boost skills pathways including apprenticeships, technical pathways and vocational routes.
- Focus on interventions for economically disadvantaged young people.
- Help align careers provision to local economic needs.
You can choose to work on a one-to-one basis with an educational institution, or support multiple institutions through our Careers Hubs.
Get in touch
If you have any questions about the role of an Enterprise Adviser or if you would like to connect to your local Careers Hub team, then please contact us.
Steve Trotter [email protected]
Hertfordshire Careers Hub Operations Lead
Your questions answered
We've compiled a list of the most commonly asked questions to give you more information about becoming an Enterprise Adviser.
Why volunteer to be an Enterprise Adviser?
Personal benefits
The opportunity to:
- Give back to your local community.
- Meet new people and grow your personal and professional network.
- Improve your skills, challenge yourself and learn something new.
Business benefits
The opportunity to:
- Develop skills and the future pipeline of employees.
- Raise awareness of your sector or business organisation.
- Develop closer connections with the local community.
Complete a quick form to register your interest in becoming an Enterprise Adviser and help to shape future careers.
Volunteer to become an Enterprise Adviser
Why were Enterprise Advisers introduced?
World class careers education can’t exist without input and insight from industry.
Enterprise Advisers were introduced to help demystify the world of work to education leaders and teachers to help ensure careers education remains reflective of the fast-changing labour market.
Learn more about Enterprise Advisers and what they do.
Why volunteer?
There are a huge number of personal and professional benefits to becoming an Enterprise Adviser.
Hear more from Enterprise Adviser, Seleena, about their experience volunteering in a school, and how it’s developed them as an individual whilst supporting their business interests.
Why should your business be involved?
Learn more about the benefits of Enterprise Advisers to your business.
Your role as an Enterprise Adviser
By working with Careers Leaders and Education Leaders, you will help them to build connections between employers and their education institutions to improve young people’s career prospects in your area.
You will either work on a 1-2-1 basis with education institutions or across multiple institutions in our Careers Hubs.
Why are Enterprise Advisers so important to our mission?
Learn more about how Enterprise Advisers add value.
Your questions answered
We've put together some commonly asked questions to give you more information about becoming an Enterprise Adviser.
FAQs about Enterprise Advisers
Make a difference
You don't need to be a careers expert – it’s your skills and experience in business that matters.
Become an Enterprise Adviser today and start helping to rewrite the story for young people.
