Education Jobs in North East

Unifrog’s mission
 

We’re on a mission to level the playing field when it comes to young people finding and applying for their next step after school. We're achieving this by bringing all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications. We also empower teachers and counsellors to manage the progression process effectively.
 

Our outlook is global - we work with schools and universities all over the world, from the US to New Zealand, and from Italy to Hong Kong. We want to make it so that young people can compare every opportunity taught in English, wherever it is in the world, and have all the support they need to make successful applications.
 

We have a clear social purpose, and we’re hugely ambitious. We already work with over half of UK secondary schools, and hundreds of international schools. We are growing rapidly in terms of the number of our customers, in terms of how much they use our platform, and in terms of the breadth of products we offer (check out this video to hear more about the Unifrog platform).
 

Our team is at the heart of our business and is integral to our success. We work hard to foster a culture of openness, happiness and innovation, and we commit to helping every individual learn and grow so that they can reach their full potential. We want to hire talented people, whatever their background. If you are excited by our mission and are ready to work hard, please don’t hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!
 

We believe in the power of diversity. If you are from an ethnic minority background, we would like to strongly encourage you to apply.
 

The role and your key responsibilities
 

As an Account Manager, your role is to make sure that all partners in your area make the most out of the Unifrog platform. You’ll build and maintain excellent working relationships with your partner schools and colleges, and provide expert guidance on how to embed the platform across all year groups.

You will cover your own area of the country with occasional travel to your partner schools and colleges (on average 1-2 days per week).
 

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Work with schools and colleges to provide resources and strategies which maximise staff and student engagement with Unifrog, identifying and promoting best practice across partner schools.
   

• Deliver targeted training sessions to staff within our partner schools and colleges via workshops and presentations, delivered remotely or in person.
   

• Work with your partner Area Manager to improve Unifrog engagement and achieve a sky high resubscription rate.
   

• Monitor and analyse usage across partner schools and colleges; identifying partners that need additional support to use the platform effectively.
   

• Listen to teachers and students about how we can improve our customer service and the Unifrog platform.
   

• Attend conferences and run CPD events on behalf of Unifrog.
   

What we’re looking for

• Strong communication skills – written, over the phone and on video calls.
   

• Track record of excellent relationship management.
   

• Extremely well organised.
   

• Keen attention to detail.
   

• Active listening and objection handling skills.
   

• A background and interest in education would be an advantage.

• Proactive attitude and willingness to get stuck in.

You will be joining a team of highly motivated people who are passionate about our mission of helping students to find the best next step for them after school. If this excites you and you’re an energetic person who is willing to learn, then we’d love to hear from you.
 

Working together

You’ll work closely alongside an Area Manager in your region, and with our Partner Success team to provide the best service to your schools and colleges. You will be part of a fantastic team of Account Managers, and line-managed by a Senior Account Manager. 

 

Benefits

Head to our jobs page for a full list of the excellent benefits we offer our team.

• Join one of ‘the best organisations to escape to’ and help transform careers and destinations in schools. We’re also a certified Great Place to Work.

• Become part of a committed, dynamic and growing team. We want to build the team at Unifrog for the long term – if you do well, we will do our best to make you want to stay at the company for a long time.
   

• Professional development is important at Unifrog. You will define your own 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them. You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress.
   

• Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.
  
   

Key details
 

• £37,306 per annum pro rata (Grade B), plus commission, car allowance, and a share in a company-wide performance bonus. 

• OTE £40,000 (pro rata).

• Maternity Cover - fixed term up to 12 months.

• 28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays) (pro rata).

• Working hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Thursday, and 9:00am to 4:30pm on Friday.
   

• Full UK driving licence and access to a car is essential.
   

• All travel expenses covered.
   

• Candidate must be based in the London region.
   

• Home based with some travel to schools and colleges in London.

• Start date: w/c 28th July 2025 (although we can be flexible depending on notice periods).
   

• To discuss any details about the role before applying, please contact Mhairi (details on our website).
   

• We can only consider candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

 

Application process

Deadline: 10:00AM (GMT) Monday 17th March 2025.
 

Stage 1: Application form (~1 hour) ✍️

• Visit our website to upload your CV and complete the questions and tasks below. Please note that we do not review CVs at this stage of the application process so please be as specific as possible about your experience.

• i. With reference to the job description and your experience, what makes you an excellent candidate for this role? (250 words)
• ii. Tell us about a time when you have had to build a relationship with someone when it was particularly challenging. What was your approach? (250 words)
• iii. You notice that one of your partner schools is not engaging with Unifrog across the whole school. How would you approach the situation to maximise staff and student engagement with the platform and resources? (250 words)

Stage 2: Phone task (15 minutes) 

• A short role play task over the phone. We will schedule these tasks throughout the application window.

Stage 3: Video call interview (1 hour) 

• Short demonstration of a Unifrog tool (resources will be provided) (20 mins)

• Standard Q&A from a panel of three, including questions about your experiences and how these relate to the role, and scenario questions based on common situations you might face (plus time for your questions) (40 mins).

Video call interviews will be held on w/c 24th March 2025.

Your answers are an opportunity to let us know more about your motivations and experience. While we understand that candidates might want to use AI to improve parts of their application, we strongly encourage you to write your answers independently. 

Please note, we compare all answers to an AI generated answer. Where we suspect AI has been used to write the majority of the answer, this will be taken into consideration when scoring

 

Inclusion and diversity at Unifrog

• Within the company we try to foster a culture of innovation, and a happy working environment, both because this is the right thing to do, and because we think this results in the most effective team. To this end we believe in open communication, celebrating successes, supporting each other, not being afraid to be wrong or to fail, and promoting good ideas wherever they come from.

• As a platform that supports teachers and students from a huge variety of backgrounds it’s important that our team and leadership reflects this diversity. This is something we are actively working towards and prioritising. We want to embed diversity, equity and inclusion across everything we do, continually evaluating policies and practices to make sure they are inclusive and equitable.

• To make sure everyone’s voice is heard and people have the opportunities to learn to be better allies in the workplace, we encourage the team to share what they’re celebrating, facilitate training and group discussions, and seek regular feedback about what more the company could do to help people feel included.

• To ensure that our recruitment process is consistent and fair, we anonymise your application and therefore do not see your name, personal, educational or professional background. We also randomise the order of responses so that it’s less likely that a candidate is advantaged or disadvantaged by where their answers appear compared to other candidates. 

We’re an award-winning charity running local learning centres in the heart of the communities where the young people we support live. Our centres provide a high-impact education programme which includes practical learning support, pastoral care, and motivational and confidence-building activities for young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to enable students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to realise their ambitions and achieve their wonderful potential.

As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping over 50,000 young people each year at its 44 learning centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, and we plan to scale-up our provision to 50 centres over the coming years.

We are looking for graduates who will enjoy working each day with young people and who will thrive in a frontline, community-based, fast-paced and rewarding role. You will be taking up a permanent role as an Education Worker on IntoUniversity’s Graduate Scheme, helping to change the lives of young people. 

We believe that our Graduate Scheme is one of the most exciting in the charity sector, an excellent career opportunity with exceptional training and hands-on experience, opportunities for promotion, and the chance to work with young people and colleagues who will challenge and inspire you.

Locations: We have positions available in Clacton and Gateshead/Newcastle
Contract: Full-time, permanent
Applications close: 9am Monday 17th March 2025
Start date: April 2025 (or as otherwise agreed).

Salary

£27,400 per annum 

What could my day look like?

The Education Worker role is a frontline, fast-paced and rewarding role where no two weeks will look the same. A typical day will have different activities, possibly spread between the IntoUniversity centre, partner schools and the offices of a corporate partner.

In the morning, you might be setting off with resources to run a workshop for sixth-form students in their secondary school. In the afternoon you may be setting up the classroom ahead of running Primary Academic Support for young people in your IntoUniversity centre. On other days, you may be travelling to a corporate partner to run a business simulation workshop for 15 year-olds or leading a group of final year primary school students on a campus visit for their graduation.

As an Education Worker, you’ll always be delivering the programme as part of your centre team, which means that any delivery is always a team effort. 

Application deadline: 9am Monday 17th March 2025. Please note that we will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to recruit earlier, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

This is an exciting time to join Bikeability Trust as we have launched a new 10 year strategy and mission and we are putting quality front and centre. The Trust has a key role in setting quality standards from instructor training to delivery to ensure that Bikeability is delivered effectively across the country. This role in a new quality focussed team will have responsibility to developing and runinng our annual programme of quality, continuing the successful Get Cycling in Schools roll out, managing our awards materials, and ensuring learnings from complaints and serious incidents are embedded in quality improvements. Experience of delivering cycle training (National Standards or Bikeability including adults) is a must for this role as a credible expert in the field. If you do not hold the qualification already, you will not be shortlisted for this role. 

· Reporting to: The post-holder will report to the Director of Public Affairs and Policy.

· Contract: Full time, permanent (Monday-Friday, 09:00-17:30)

· Salary: £49,848-£53,958 per year

· Location: Homebased, with travel to CST events and meetings as applicable

Key responsibilities

Working closely with colleagues in the Public Affairs and Policy team, and across CST and CST Professional Development, the Policy Manager will be a fast-paced and varied role. As a new role in a growing team, the successful candidate will likely take on line-management responsibility in the near future.

The successful candidate will play a critical part in representing the views of CST members to government and other stakeholders. They will need a keen eye for detail as well as strong political savvy to see the bigger picture.

This role will be output focused, delivering high-quality written material for a range of uses. Key responsibilities will include:

1) Representing CST and CST members in a senior policy capacity, attending meetings with government officials and others.

2) Policy monitoring, implementing processes and ensuring relevant colleagues are up to date with the latest policy and political developments, and recommending interventions as appropriate.

3) Drafting responses to consultations and calls for evidence, ensuring CST remains a key player in policy debate.

4) Creating briefings on policy issues for internal stakeholders, as well as developing and managing circulation of CST updates for external stakeholders including MPs, Peers, sector figures, and journalists.

5) Utilising public datasets and government announcements to identify opportunities for policy development.

6) Overseeing member queries, creating a triage process to ensure accurate and timely responses.

7) Support the wider work of CST as appropriate, including developing CST’s elected Policy Advisory Group, attending CST’s Professional Development events, and providing input for CST’s Professional Communities.  

8) Working closely with the Head of Communications and others to ensure publications, media releases and other content are reflective of CST views and identifies opportunity for promoting CST’s positions.

9) Working with colleagues, develop systems to promote and enhance CST’s policy voice through a range of channels. 

10)  Any other duties that may be delegated by the Director of Public Affairs and Policy or CST’s Leadership Group.

Person specification

As part of a small and growing team, the successful candidate will need to be enthusiastic and adaptable, switching between core delivery (e.g., drafting consultation responses) and proactive planning (e.g., identifying opportunities to promote CST’s policy voice).

Previous experience working in education or public policy is desirable. The education policy space is complex and nuanced; we do not expect the successful candidate to be an expert across all domains, however they should be able to evidence a passion for education alongside their ability to quickly understand, digest, and distil policy development. This will be tested at interview.

The post-holder will be:

· Passionate about education and outcomes for children.

· Adaptable, switching between complex policy areas and distilling information for CST members and others.

· People-centred, adept at forming and maintaining positive relationships with colleagues, CST members, and external stakeholders.

· Politically astute with a deep interest in politics, public policy, data and research.

· Highly organised with the ability to prioritise and work flexibly to tight deadlines. 

· Embody the Nolan Principles, and act with integrity and discretion.

· Committed to ongoing development of themselves and their colleagues. 

Oak is a great organisation with a highly valued culture. We have been recently accredited (through colleague surveys) as a founding member of Escape The City's Top 1% Employer Certification (the ultimate benchmark for progressive organisations) and achieved a Flexa verified score of 93% overall, with 93% for autonomy, 95% for working hours, and a whopping 97% for role modelling.

Oak provides school teachers and pupils with the highest-quality curriculum and lesson resources across all subjects and age groups. In this role, you will work on our user-facing web applications using React, Typescript, Next.js, GraphQL, and SQL to make our products easy and fun to use.

We work together in product squads alongside designers, researchers, and education experts, regularly releasing new features and improvements to give teachers and their pupils quick and easy access to the highest-quality learning resources.

Responsibilities

• Development of highly performant ed-tech applications that are secure, scalable, highly available and accessible to the widest number of users that meet Government Digital Service standards.

• Pursue an active programme of continual learning and development of skills.

• As a member of the Oak Team, contribute to the planning and culture of the organisation.

• Work in cross-functional and product-oriented squads with colleagues from across the organisation, as required.

• Support all work across Engineering and take on other general responsibilities as required.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Proven experience building web-based applications using modern Javascript libraries and tools either professionally or in collaboration with others.

• Strong problem-solving skills with an emphasis on digital product development.

• Desire to build beautiful, easy-to-use digital products with an understanding of the importance of accessibility in all its forms.

• Great communication and collaborative skills.

If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, get in touch anyway. Ability and attitude are just as important as experience!

WE MAY CHOOSE TO CLOSE THE ROLE EARLY DUE TO THE VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS SO PLEASE GET AN APPLICATION IN EARLY.

We offer flexible working where you can base yourself at home or in a co-working office of your choice; whichever works best for you. We work a 36-hour a week and most colleagues finish early on a Friday or take every other Friday back to ensure they keep a healthy work-life balance. We believe in continually getting better as an organisation and as individuals and so there are plenty of opportunities for growth and a generous Learning and Development policy. Our team is supported with generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave so that their families get a fantastic start.

If Oak sounds like somewhere you could do your life’s best work then we would love to hear from you. We use Applied platform to support diversity in our recruitment.

Oak is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We particularly encourage applications from Black and minority ethnic candidates who are currently under-represented.

We are here to improve pupil outcomes and close the disadvantage gap by supporting teachers to teach, and pupils to access a high-quality curriculum.

We achieve this through building and developing our brilliant team who then collaborate with experts from across different sectors to produce the Oak platform.

Here are five reasons why you should join Ambition Institute’s 12-month teacher training programme:

Learn with England’s largest professional development provider
We are England’s largest professional development provider for teachers and school leaders. In 2023/24 1 in 9 teachers and leaders in state-funded schools currently developing professionally with Ambition.​ When your programme is complete, you also have the option to progress your career further and move on to our two-year training for Early Career Teachers, which will help you develop your expertise.

Train in school: You’ll do most of your training in one school. This gives you immediate opportunities to put the theory you’ve learned into practice in a classroom, supported by teaching experts.

Be guided by a mentor: To ensure you’re supported throughout your training; we match you with an experienced teacher who will guide you every step of the way.

Benefit from blended learning: You’ll get the high-quality academic training you'd expect to get from a university combined with immersive, classroom learning.

Become a qualified teacher. After successfully completing the programme, you’ll achieve qualified teacher status (QTS), and a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) enabling you to start your career in teaching straight away.

Eligibility:

To be eligible, you will need:

· An undergraduate bachelor's degree with honours, generally 2:2 or above, or equivalent.

· A GCSE grade 4/C or above in English and maths, or equivalent.

· Primary school trainees will need a GCSE grade 4/C or above in science, or equivalent

· By the start of the training, successful candidates must have permission to work in the UK full-time for the duration of the programme.

Locations available for our training currently include: 

North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, Midlands, East of England and London. Use our map tool to filter to a location that suits you.

Tuition fees:

All trainees will need to pay tuition fees unless you are a salaried trainee and your school has explicitly offered to pay your fees. Tuition fees for our Teacher Training programme are £9,535 for full-time study and £7,145 per year for part-time study. If you are eligible for a student loan in the UK, you can get a student loan to cover these costs, as well as a maintenance grant up to £13,762.

If you want to train as a secondary trainee teacher, you may be able to apply for funding to cover the costs of your tuition fees through a bursary or scholarship, which you would not need to pay back.

Funding:

We offer a few salaried placements, but if you do not choose a salaried teacher training course, and depending on your subject choice, you may be eligible to receive funding through a bursary or a scholarship up to £31,000, which you do not have to pay back. You can learn more about all the teacher training funding options via our ‘funding’ tab here Initial Teacher Training Programme: Train to Teach | Ambition Institute.

Option of part-time training:

A part-time option is also available over two years, but not all our school partners offer this option. Again, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button to see which of our partners are providing this.

Application Process

1. Application: The first step when applying is to select which of our partners you want to train with. You can do this by clicking the ‘Apply’ button and navigating to our partner map tool to choose your preferred school partner in the region suited to you. You will then be able to register with this partner and complete our short application form. Alternatively, you can follow the same link and just register your interest in our programme for now and we’ll be in touch with more details.
2. Interview: Our friendly team at Ambition Institute will assess your application and if you are eligible, will pass your application to your preferred school partner. You will then be invited to attend an interview. The interview will involve five questions and one task.
3. Offer: If you are successful at the assessment stage you will be provided with a conditional offer. Please note the conditions of the offer are dependent on you completing the relevant pre-programme checks.

About Ambition

A great teacher changes the future every day. They can be the critical factor in a child’s success, especially for those who have had a tough start in life. At Ambition Institute, we support teachers and school leaders at every stage of their careers, helping them to keep getting better. We are a charity providing training and professional development based on the most rigorous research and evidence about what really works. Together, we’re shaping the future of education to give every child the best start in life.

An exciting opportunity to be involved in the development of a growing adult literacy charity as it expands across London

One in 20 adults in the UK has never learnt to read at all, but it is never too late to learn. Read Easy UK is a volunteer organisation that delivers one-to-one reading coaching to adults aged from 18-88 through a network of affiliated, locally run volunteer groups.  

With its free, flexible, confidential approach, Read Easy encourages many people who are too embarrassed to join a class to come forward for one-to-one support. Each new reader is provided with their own personal Reading Coach, so that they can learn in private and at their own pace. Learning to read transforms their lives in many other ways as well, including enabling them to support their children’s and grandchildren’s reading, and so transfers the benefits to the next generation.

There are currently 80 affiliated Read Easy groups across England, together involving more than a thousand volunteers. Read Easy UK is the registered charity and umbrella organisation which supports this network of affiliated volunteer groups and provides the structure, training and support to enable volunteers to establish groups in new areas.

As our London Regional Adviser, your aim would be to find volunteers to ‘pioneer’ four new groups in London, and then provide them and our 15 existing groups in the city, with high-quality support. Your support will ensure that they provide the same for their volunteers and new Readers. From meeting with Team Leaders to provide one to one support, to delivering presentations and training for small groups of volunteers, this is a dynamic and rewarding role.

This is a part-time (18 hours per week) home-based post requiring flexibility, some early evening working and occasional travel to visit groups.

The successful candidate will have been employed to work with volunteers for at least two years; have strong people management and interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills; and the confidence to run meetings and deliver presentations.

Applicants must live within Greater London.

1. Are you passionate about creating engaging and high-quality learning content?
2. Do you have experience in curriculum development, instructional design, or content strategy?

 
If so, this Product Lead (Content) role could be your next exciting career move!
 
Salary: £36,200 to £38,000 (depending on experience)
Employment type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
Working arrangements: Fully remote
Location: UK
 

About the Organisation
 
Our client, an awarding organisation that is dedicated to delivering high-quality qualifications and learning resources. Their mission is to create innovative, accessible, and effective learning content that meets the evolving needs of learners and educators. With a strong commitment to quality and regulatory standards, they work closely with stakeholders to develop resources that make a real impact.

Benefits 

• 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, plus Christmas shutdown
• Competitive pension scheme
• Annual bonus
• Homeworker allowance
• Flexible working
• Professional development opportunities

 
 
About the Role
 
As Product Lead (Content), you’ll play a key role in managing the lifecycle of learning content, from development to implementation. Your work will ensure that content aligns with product strategy, regulatory requirements, and user needs.
 
You’ll collaborate with internal teams, contractors, and third-party content providers to create innovative and accessible learning resources in various formats. This role also involves line managing contractors, overseeing content quality assurance, and developing strategies to enhance the organisation’s learning materials.
 
 
Key Responsibilities 

• Develop and maintain a content strategy and roadmap aligned with the organisation’s goals.
• Oversee the full content lifecycle, ensuring efficient development, review, and withdrawal of content.
• Manage content quality assurance, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
• Work closely with the other Product Leads to ensure seamless content development for product launches.
• Commission and oversee third-party content providers, managing endorsement and review processes.
• Line manage contractors, assigning work, reviewing outputs, and maintaining engagement.
• Develop innovative and accessible learning resources in multiple formats.
• Monitor and evaluate content effectiveness, identifying areas for improvement.
• Represent the organisation at events, meetings, and conferences to strengthen industry relationships.

 
 
Experience Required 

• Experience in an awarding organisation, education setting, or similar field.
• Experience in curriculum development, instructional design, or content development.
• Project management skills, with the ability to plan and deliver content strategies.
• Strong digital literacy, including experience with LMS platforms and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to manage budgets and contractors, ensuring projects are delivered effectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Strong attention to detail, with the ability to proofread and sign off materials.
• A creative mindset, bringing fresh ideas to content development.

 
 
To Apply 

• CV
• Bespoke covering letter (no longer than 2 pages)

 
 
Interview Process 

• Two-stage online interview

 
 
Deadline 

• Tuesday 11th March 2025

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

The Bikeability Trust is coming towards the end of a process of digital transformation to create and end to end booking and monitoring system for all Bikeability Training. We have designed and implemented a new system for parents, carers and schools to record trainee details, training providers and grant recipients to be able to record outcomes and course completion. Candidates are advised to read the onboarding documentation before applying by going to the Bikeability website and searching digitisation.

This six month role is to complete the final onboarding of Industry and manage the integration with bespoke system users who are not adopting our systems in full.

We have just launched an ambitious new ten year strategy, and this will be the pivotal role to transform the organisation to deliver this mission. We are looking for an exceptional leader who can embed data, evidence, research and communications to show our charity impact to a range of stakeholders. A skilled strategist with a passion for achieveing change and the leadership skill to motivate and engage a diverse team. Help us reach every child with the confidence to cycle.

The Sales and Membership Officer will deliver vital support to ensure school libraries are at the heart of every school community. This role will play an important part in growing our membership and supporting the development of school libraries and all the benefits they bring, across the UK. We engage with educators across the school community, in order to advocate for effective school libraries and ultimately support the personal, social and academic development of children and young people. 

We need somebody who is confident, a natural, creative salesperson; with sales experience and a flair for persuasion. We are looking for somebody who cares about the customer and delivering incredible value; who is always thinking of how to innovate and reach new audiences, has a creative approach to problem solving, all while enhancing the value of SLA membership.

Duties include:

· Sell membership, services and events recruiting and retaining new members through strategic and innovative partnerships.

· To be a point of contact for our membership, managing queries and supporting members to make the most of the SLA.

· To respond promptly to inquiries from prospective members, members, executive officers, the public and other industry bodies.

· To undertake member market research.

· To maintain and update membership records and marketing databases

· Assist with the member renewal process, follow up on resignations, and compile reports and analysis on membership trends using the CRM system

· Assist in the creation and update of membership and marketing materials (such as: emails, new member welcome packs, membership directories, member listings, member questionnaires and brochures)

· To co-ordinate member recognition programmes (such as loyalty schemes and engagement scoring) 

· To maintain a calendar of recruitment and retention activities, key events, and meetings 

· To support SLA event administration working with the relevant team members

Working as part of a supportive and passionate team, you will be expected to plan work efficiently to meet the membership and training goals and objectives. To be successful in this role you should demonstrate:

· Experience of outstanding customer service

· Experience of sales and customer retention

· A good level of IT knowledge and skills

· Excellent communication skills

· Previous use of information/customer databases, content management systems, survey, and email tools

· Accuracy and attention to detail

· The ability to be able to work remotely (from home)

· A flexible approach with a willingness to adapt to changes

· An ability to work using your own initiative both independently and as a competent, effective team member

· An ability to work under pressure and prioritise work to meet deadlines

· Always treating others with courtesy, dignity, and respect

An interest and knowledge of libraries, school libraries and the education sector will be an advantage, as will experience of working with schools in an engagement and / or sales capacity.

The salary for this position is £26,000 for full time, 37 hours, and comes with a 6% employer pension contribution.

We are open to discussing job shares, flexible working, condensing hours or proposing an arrangement that we haven’t even thought of yet. This is a remote working role, with a monthly meeting in person at our current Head Office (Swindon) which you will be expected to attend, in addition to relevant member events. Working patterns can be negotiated.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply, from all over the UK. Each new role provides us with an opportunity for us to bring in a different perspective and we are always eager to diversify our team. The SLA is committed to building an inclusive, supportive place, where you can do brilliant and rewarding work.

Why work for the School Library Association?

We are at the start of an exciting new period of growth in the history of the SLA, with a new CEO, coinciding with the opportunity to influence a new government. Plans to redevelop our offer are in progress, you will have the opportunity to influence new approaches and ways of working. We are a small, friendly team who support each other to deliver an excellent service to our members. Leave is 30 days including bank holidays and we have a flexi leave system in place for all members of staff. We offer free mental health support and counselling sessions and brilliant discounts with a variety of retailers including up to 40% off Vue cinema tickets through our HR partner.

About the School Library Association

The School Library Association has been representing the school library sector for more than eighty-five years, with membership to the Association thought of as essential to all those who work in and around school libraries. Membership to the SLA provides training, support in advocating with senior leadership teams, incredible discounts and collegiate support and networking opportunities for anybody working in and with school libraries.

How to apply

To apply please send your CV and a covering letter (no more than one page) detailing the experience you have in sales, customer service and communication that you can bring to this role, and how your skills and knowledge align with the job description.Deadline: 9am 31st March 2025. Please note we will be actively interviewing for this role and may close the recruitment early if a candidate is found.

Unifrog’s mission
 

We’re on a mission to level the playing field when it comes to young people finding and applying for their next step after school. We're achieving this by bringing all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications. We also empower teachers and counsellors to manage the progression process effectively.
 

Our outlook is global - we work with schools and universities all over the world, from the US to New Zealand, and from Italy to Hong Kong. We want to make it so that young people can compare every opportunity taught in English, wherever it is in the world, and have all the support they need to make successful applications.
 

We have a clear social purpose, and we’re hugely ambitious. We already work with over half of UK secondary schools, and hundreds of international schools. We are growing rapidly in terms of the number of our customers, in terms of how much they use our platform, and in terms of the breadth of products we offer (check out this video to hear more about the Unifrog platform).
 

Our team is at the heart of our business and is integral to our success. We work hard to foster a culture of openness, happiness and innovation, and we commit to helping every individual learn and grow so that they can reach their full potential. We want to hire talented people, whatever their background. If you are excited by our mission and are ready to work hard, please don’t hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!
 

We believe in the power of diversity. If you are from an ethnic minority background, we would like to strongly encourage you to apply.
 

Employer partnerships at Unifrog

Unifrog provides employers with a comprehensive talent attraction and development offering, with a holistic approach to our partnerships. The Employer Partnerships team brings local and international employers closer to our Unifrog schools, students and teachers. We focus on three key areas:

1. Building brand awareness
2. Increasing talent attraction and/or diversity of hires for apprenticeship opportunities
3. Supporting corporate social responsibility 

This allows employers to centralise their engagement with the future workforce via one partnership. 

This is the newest element of the Unifrog team and since starting work with employers in March 2022, we’re now partnered with over 110 organisations from across all sectors and industries to support them with their talent attraction and brand awareness. 

We’re increasing growth through providing unique tailored partnerships for employers; from partnerships that centre around a virtual course to support students in developing their skills (while increasing brand awareness), to partnering with Unifrog schools in areas of high levels of disadvantage via our school sponsorship programme, which brings outstanding careers guidance and networking opportunities with employers and universities to the students, schools and parents/carers who need it most.

 

The role and your key responsibilities

As Employer Partnerships Manager, your role is to grow our employer partner numbers and support our existing employer partners to get the most out of their partnership with us. A fundamental element of our work with employers is to make sure they’re adding genuine value to our student, teacher and parent community. 

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Make sales to employers:
  • Working with our New Business Lead and the wider Employer team, you’ll secure and conduct meetings with employers in which you’ll listen to their needs, communicate our mission to them, demonstrate our offering and seek to secure their ongoing subscription. External events and conferences are a regular part of the role where you may also be required to deliver presentations and be part of panel discussions.

• Maintain excellent relationships with existing partners and secure their subscriptions

  • You’ll onboard new partners, conduct regular check-in calls and consultatively support our employer partners to make the most of their partnership with us. It’s crucial that you maintain a sky-high resubscription rate.

• Delivering our existing services for partner employers

  • As the partnerships manager for your employers, you would be responsible for delivering on the different aspects of the partnership, including:

• Matching campaigns

  • Support your partners to identify events and opportunities they’re running that will be of interest to students using Unifrog, and work with our Employer Engagement Coordinator to add them to our system.

• Webinars, online fairs and in-person events

  • These events are another way for our partner employers to interact with our community of students and teachers. From virtual careers fairs, skill development webinars to in-person insights days, we strive for all our events to be useful, impactful and enjoyable for everyone taking part.

• Help develop new ways for our employer partners to add and receive value

  • The employer offering is continually evolving, and we’re keen to keep adding more ways in which we can add value for students and teachers using the Unifrog platform, and value to our employer partners as well. At Unifrog, we innovate quickly, and it’s everyone’s job to be creative. We want you to play your part in coming up with new services we can deliver which add value to all parties. 

 

What we’re looking for

• Resilient, and motivated to exceed targets

  • Our sales and resubscription targets are ambitious but achievable. You’ll need to be determined to meet and exceed them.

• Active listening

  • Our employer offering is a bespoke partnership, based on the objectives of our employer partners and how their goals align with the needs of our student and teacher audience. You’ll need to be an outstanding active listener, and be able to facilitate consultative discussions with potential and existing partners. 

• Personable, with a track record of excellent relationship management

  • At Unifrog we’re known for our excellent customer service. You’ll need to provide fantastic support for your partner employers.

• Strong communication skills

  • You’ll be in frequent communication with lots of different people, both within Unifrog and externally - this will be in person, written, over the phone and via video call. You’ll need to be an outstanding communicator, and prepared to speak on panels and present at conferences.

• Attention to detail

  • Whether it’s marketing collateral or an email to a partner organisation, it’s important you have the skills and discipline to carefully check our employer focused content and communications.

• Proactive attitude and willingness to get stuck in

  • You need to be excited about going beyond the core responsibilities detailed above to improve what we do and make it a success.

• Data analysis

  • You will be expected to organise and interpret data to help employer partners make decisions about their partnership which will lead to securing new business and renewals. We also use Salesforce and Power BI; experience using these tools is desirable but not essential. You also need to be confident using google sheets, excel and powerpoint to create easy to understand visual representations. 

• Commercial awareness

  • We are more interested in people’s attitude and ability than their work history, but previous experience in Corporate Social Responsibility,  Emerging Talent, and/or Apprenticeships would be an advantage.

 

Working together

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Employer Partnerships team. You’ll work alongside several other teams at Unifrog too, including people on our marketing, data analysis, and school facing teams. You’ll be line-managed by the Head of Employer Partnerships.

 

Benefits

Head to our jobs page for a full list of the excellent benefits we offer our team.

• Join one of ‘the best organisations to escape to’ and help transform careers and destinations in schools. 

• Become part of a committed, dynamic, and growing company. We want to build our team for the long term: if you do well, we will do our best to make sure you want to stay at the company for a long time.

• Professional development is important at Unifrog. You will define your own 6-month objectives and will be supported by your line manager and the rest of the team to achieve them. You will have an annual training allowance to spend on what you need to grow and progress.

• Influence the company’s direction: we love to promote great ideas, wherever they come from.

 

Key details 

• Base salary of £37,485 plus commission and a share in a company-wide bonus (£50,000 OTE). Grade B.

• Full-time.

• Working hours are 8:30am to 4:30pm or 9:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Thursday, and 8:30am to 4:00pm, or 9:00am to 4:30pm on Friday.

• 28 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays).

• Work remotely or in our London office.

• Start date: as soon as possible, but no later than the 1st June 2025.

• If you require reasonable adjustments or want to discuss any details about the role before applying, please get in touch.

• We can only consider candidates who have the right to work in the UK.

 

Application process

Deadline: 10:00 AM (GMT) on Friday 14th March 2025.

Stage 1: Application form (~1 hour)

• Visit our website to upload your CV and complete the questions and tasks below. Please note that we do not review CVs at this stage of the application process, so please be as specific as possible about your experience.

• i. With reference to the job description and your experience, what makes you an excellent candidate for this role? (250 words)

• ii. Identify a way that a major employer could add value to our student and teacher community, as well as a way that they could receive value from a partnership with Unifrog. How could Unifrog potentially facilitate each of these examples? (250 words)

• iii. What do you feel are the 3 most common barriers employers face when trying to engage with students? How do you think a Unifrog partnership could break these barriers down? (250 words)

Stage 2: Phone task (15 minutes)

Stage 3: Video call interview (1 hour)

• Standard Q&A from a panel of three, including questions about your experiences and how these relate to the role, and scenario questions based on common situations you might face (plus time for your questions)

Phone interviews will be held throughout the application window. Video call interviews will be held w/c 24th March 2024.

Your answers are an opportunity to let us know more about your motivations and experience. While we understand that candidates might want to use AI to improve parts of their application, we strongly encourage you to write your answers independently.

Please note, we compare all answers to an AI generated answer. Where we suspect AI has been used to write the majority of the answer, this will be taken into consideration when scoring.

 

Inclusion and diversity at Unifrog
 

• Within the company we try to foster a culture of innovation, and a happy working environment, both because this is the right thing to do, and because we think this results in the most effective team. To this end we believe in open communication, celebrating successes, supporting each other, not being afraid to be wrong or to fail, and promoting good ideas wherever they come from.

• As a platform that supports teachers and students from a huge variety of backgrounds it’s important that our team and leadership reflects this diversity. This is something we are actively working towards and prioritising. We want to embed diversity, equity and inclusion across everything we do, continually evaluating policies and practices to make sure they are inclusive and equitable.

• To make sure everyone’s voice is heard and people have the opportunities to learn to be better allies in the workplace, we encourage the team to share what they’re celebrating, facilitate training and group discussions, and seek regular feedback about what more the company could do to help people feel included.

• To ensure that our recruitment process is consistent and fair, we anonymise your application and therefore do not see your name, personal, educational or professional background. We also randomise the order of responses so that it’s less likely that a candidate is advantaged or disadvantaged by where their answers appear compared to other candidates. 

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