Birmingham Programme Coordinator

About the opportunity

The Birmingham Programme Coordinator will be responsible for managing a caseload of up to seven partner schools, attending and coordinating weekly tutoring sessions, developing relationships with pupils, school staff and volunteer tutors and collecting data for monitoring and evaluation purposes. This role plays a crucial part in overseeing the quality of face to face and online tutoring sessions to ensure effective and impactful programme delivery.

Duties and responsibilities

• Responsible for the delivery of Action Tutoring’s tutoring programmes in partner schools, whether online or face to face. This includes working closely to manage and effectively communicate with all key stakeholders: schools, pupils and volunteer tutors; leading weekly face to face and online tutoring sessions; leading on reviewing and improving programme delivery, using data to reliably assess programme performance.
• Responsible for overseeing the quality of both face to face and online tutoring, engaging in quality assurance processes, and providing feedback to volunteer tutors to ensure effective and impactful delivery.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders in partner schools, including members of the Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers.
• Update and maintain Action Tutoring’s database, including collecting data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, such as attendance records, baseline and interim assessments and end of programme surveys. Reporting regularly on key performance indicators.

Key information: 

Reports to: Midlands Programme Manager

Salary: £26,368 per annum 

Contract and hours: Permanent, full-time. We offer flexible hours with 9.30-4 as core hours. A
full working week is 37.5 hours.

Closing date: Thursday 20th February 2025

Interviews: 3rd and 4th March 2025

Start date: Monday 7th April 2025

Place of work: This role is based at home with regular travel to schools in Birmingham and surrounding areas.

Application process:

Please submit a completed application form via our website.

In the form you will be asked to reflect on the statements below:

1. Your ability to be resilient when things are not going the way you thought. Include clear examples of past experiences.
2. Your ability to manage competing demands simultaneously. Include clear examples of past experiences.
3. Tell us about how our organisational values are in line with your values.

Applications that fail to meet these criteria will automatically be discounted. We want you to have every opportunity to shine and to show us your talents—please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.

Please note, we do not accept CVs and cover letters. We only accept applications with the application form. We recognise that artificial intelligence (AI) such as 'ChatGPT' etc can be useful for applicants e.g. to shorten an initial draft and we are open to applicants utilising these tools in their application and in their roles. However, we would caution applicants not to rely too much on AI in drafting answers to application questions. We want to hear your authentic voice, and for the interview part in particular we will be looking for answers that use examples and experiences that are specific to you.