Project Officer; CTEC​/TIE

Job Description and Person Specification

Are you passionate about making a real difference to education, skills and workforce development? Do you enjoy organising activity, managing information and ensuring things run smoothly? We’re looking for a Project Officer to support the delivery of the Construction Technical Excellence College (CTEC) and Teacher Industry Exchange (TIE) programmes across the south west.

• Coordinate programme activity, support events and placements, and maintain accurate records.
• Ensure reporting and compliance requirements are met and that the programmes remain audit‑ready.
• Support stakeholder communications, manage programme data, and track actions and milestones.
• Provide essential administrative and project support to keep both programmes organised, responsive and efficient.

• Highly organised, proactive and detail‑focused with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities and working with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience in an administrative, project support or programme coordination role is essential.
• Experience with in further education, skills, employer engagement or externally funded programmes would be advantageous.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 applications.

• Generous holiday entitlement and a superb pension scheme.
• Additional benefits include free counselling and discounted supermarket shopping.

Everyone’s welcome to apply for a role here, regardless of personal characteristics, including race, age, gender, religion, ability, disability or sexuality.

We’re totally committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students, and we expect you to be too. We follow safer recruitment statutory guidance (Keeping Children Safe in Education). If you’re successful, you’ll be required to complete thorough pre‑employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references. All posts at Exeter College are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.

The paid holidays quoted include at least 7 Christmas closure days and 8 bank holidays.