Education Project Officer

Education Project Officer
Reporting to: Education Manager
Based: Our Head Office is based in London, but we have an agile working policy enabling people to work at another UK location up to 4 days/week. Permanent remote working in the UK is possible and we welcome applications from people based in other parts of the UK
Terms: Full time (35 hours/week), permanent. Requests for part-time or flexible working will be considered​.
Salary: £28,600 - £34,424 per annum 

About the team
The Education team at the BSA is supportive, creative and innovative, and we care deeply about the work that we do.​

Between us we oversee the CREST Awards scheme (and its associated networks and grants), the activity packs and poster competition for British Science Week and a variety of funded projects that seek to make access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) more equitable.​​

The team are based across the UK, and we are happy to discuss remote/flexible working options.   ​​

Key responsibilities include:
Working on a variety of education-related projects and areas of work as required, example responsibilities include: 

• Day-to-day management of the accreditation process of CREST Award activities, including assessing the suitability of activities developed and delivered by partner organisations.
• Assisting with the administration of partnership agreements paperwork and drafting operational instructions that enable partners to engage with the CREST Awards.
• Coordinating the CREST online resource library, including reviewing and updating the contents.
• Providing support on funded project work, including the co-ordination of the development of new STEM resources, predominantly for schools and young people.
• Project coordination tasks including stakeholder and customer liaison, creation of task schedules and monitoring the evaluation of activities and projects.
• Organisation of online events for teachers and students to provide guidance about running CREST and submitting project work for CREST Awards.
• Customer care related activities including responding to teacher enquires via the CREST Help Centre.
• Supporting the development of content for British Science Week Activity Packs and liaising with partner organisations. 

About you
You're a confident, organised and curious person, who is able to manage their own time and workload flexibly. A team-player, you are looking to gain experience working on projects in the charity or STEM education and engagement sectors.

Ideally you will have worked with schools/young people, and you will be comfortable working across all our programmes, transferring your time, skills and energy to different projects and priorities at different times.

You will be highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite of programmes, and willing and able to learn new IT/digital skills.

Above all you will have a passion for young people and giving all young people (regardless of background) the skills, inspiration and opportunity to feel like STEM is for them.​

The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 22 September 2024. 
Interviews are due to take place w/c 30 September 20

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

The BSA is an equal opportunities employer and a champion of equality, diversity and inclusion. We aim to recruit the person most suited to the job and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and from different sectors, and from people who've gained their skills outside formal employment.  We would particularly welcome applications from people and communities who are currently under-represented in our staff team, which includes people from minority ethnic groups, disabled people and men.

No agencies please.