Migrant Communities Employment & ESOL Coordinator

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO3 (£47,262 – £50,676)
Work location: Wood Green Library, 187 High Road, London, N22 6XD
Hours per week: 36
Working arrangements: Hybrid
Contract type: Fixed term contract (24 months from start date)
Closing date: Sunday 27th September 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: 16th October 2026

If you are intending on going for a secondment opportunity, please ensure you had notified your line manager/head of service to seek approval

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are looking for a skilled and compassionate Migrant Communities Employment & ESOL Coordinator to help make Haringey’s employment, skills and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision more joined-up, responsive and effective for refugees, people seeking asylum and vulnerable migrant communities. You will combine hands-on resident support with borough-wide coordination. Working in a trauma-informed, strengths-based and culturally competent way, you will assess residents’ goals, skills, language needs, qualifications and barriers to work, then help them build realistic pathways through ESOL, volunteering, work experience, job trials and sustainable employment. You will also help residents navigate UK employment systems, workplace culture and the recognition of overseas qualifications. Alongside this casework, you will connect Haringey Works, Haringey Learns, the Resettlement Team, employers and external providers so that services operate as a coherent system. You will map provision, identify gaps and duplication, strengthen referral and progression routes, encourage employment-focused ESOL, and develop inclusive opportunities for residents with limited English or UK work experience. Accurate case records, outcome data and resident insight will be central to demonstrating impact and improving the offer.

About the team

The role sits within Haringey Works, the Council’s employment delivery service, alongside Targeted Employment Advisers and reporting to the Haringey Works Specialist Team Leader. You will also work across the Resettlement Team and Haringey Learns, as well as with Housing, Benefits, Adult Social Care and other Council services. This is a highly collaborative role with strong links to employers, ESOL and skills providers, and voluntary, community and migrant-led organisations. Together, we aim to create welcoming and accessible pathways that recognise residents’ strengths, respond to migration-related barriers and support people to progress with confidence.

About you

You will have experience of supporting people from disadvantaged communities, people with complex needs or residents who are furthest from the labour market. You understand the barriers that refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants may face in accessing employment, and you can build trust with people who may have limited English, disrupted education or experience of trauma while maintaining clear professional boundaries. You will bring excellent communication, organisation and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to coordinate partners, influence provision and constructively challenge barriers. You will understand recruitment practice, local employment and training pathways, ESOL progression and culturally responsive support. Experience of employer engagement or job brokerage, partnership coordination, and using data or insight to improve services will help you succeed. Creative, resilient and solutions-focused, you will be able to manage competing priorities while keeping residents at the centre of your work. You will share our commitment to safeguarding, equality, diversity, inclusion and continuous learning. We particularly welcome applications from candidates with lived experience of the UK’s immigration system.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

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