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ABOUT US

School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) is a charity that exists to empower and support children who are living in complex and challenging circumstances. By fostering an environment of genuine acceptance and through the use of physical activity and group and one-to-one support sessions, SOHK enables people to find meaning and purpose to life. All of SOHK's activities are underpinned by an evidence based sport for development framework called the 5Cs.

OVERVIEW

We currently have a small fundraising team that has been together since April 2023, consisting of a Partnerships Manager, a Trusts and Foundations Manager and an Events Co-ordinator. The new Interim Head of Fundraising will lead this team, including our Communications and Marketing Manager.

Our desire is not just to bring a person on board who will lead the team from behind the lines, but someone who will take full ownership of the fundraising targets and be the visible lead fundraiser of the charity.

We want someone who will effectively deliver year one of our new three-year fundraising and marketing strategy to achieve future planned growth. Key responsibilities will be:

Team Leadership

• Take ownership of the fundraising targets and ensure that they are met.
• Lead the fundraising team and be ultimately responsible for their job satisfaction, appraisals and personal development.
• Ensure continuous evaluation of all fundraising activity.
• Monitor progress of each stream of fundraising and make adjustments as needed to achieve targets.

Relationship Generation and Stewardship

• Establish and nurture strong relationships with existing and potential donors, including individuals and corporations.
• Develop and implement tailored cultivation and stewardship plans to enhance donor engagement and loyalty.
• Ensure that regular communication with donors is in place, providing updates on projects, expressing gratitude, and soliciting continued support.

Strategy

• Lead on the execution of the new three-year fundraising strategy aligned with the charity’s mission and goals.
• Identify and explore new fundraising opportunities and innovative techniques to maximize revenue generation.
• Work as part of the Senior Management Team to develop plans and budgets that support the delivery of the organisation's strategic aims.

Reporting, Monitoring & Budgeting

• Report as required on all activity and progress to the Senior Management Team, (trustees) and Board of Trustees and its Fundraising Sub-committee.
• Monitor and manage expenditure related to fundraising activities, ensuring cost-effectiveness and adherence to budgetary constraints.
• Lead on development and upkeep of pipeline processes, ensuring high quality and live information is available across the fundraising team and finance functions.

ABOUT YOU

Your Key Strengths:

• Be a highly experienced and proven fundraiser, with at least five years of UK based charity fundraising experience.
• Have exceptional interpersonal skills - comfortable speaking with senior business leaders, decision makers and High Net Worth individuals…. And comfortable making ‘the ask’!
• Maintain high levels of discretion and tact; able to maintain confidentiality.
• Be personable yet decisive and confident, capable of working with and inspiring colleagues and volunteers.
• Have exceptional organisational and critical thinking skills; able to keep abreast of all the different streams of income and prioritise projects.
• Be IT literate and comfortable with fundraising software.
• Be a genuine self-starter, proactive, collegiate, driven and committed.

TERMS OF APPOINTMENT

• This is an interim role, for 12 months from January 2025.
• The salary is £50,000 - £55,000 depending on experience.
• You will get 25 days annual leave per year plus UK National Holidays. Also, we give any normal working days between Christmas and New Year as additional holidays.
• Reasonable flexible working arrangement , but you must have the ability to work outside of core hours and travel across the UK when necessary.

Applications close at 10pm on Wednesday 11th December

Are you passionate about shaping the future of education and family support? Ready to make a real impact on children’s lives? SHS is on the lookout for a Policy and Campaigns Executive to help us create lasting change by ensuring every child gets the education they deserve.

About the Role:

• Salary: £31,094 - £33,439 (depending on experience)

• Location: Flexible – a mix of remote work and office presence in East London

• Hours: Full-time, permanent. Part-time hours are possible for the right candidate.

With nearly 1 in 5 children missing enough school to damage their education and future life chances, school attendance has become one of the biggest challenges facing the new government. 

As a Policy and Campaigns Executive, you will collaborate with our Policy and Engagement team, crafting policy briefings, building campaigns and organising events to influence policy makers and opinion formers about the best way to break the barriers of low school attendance and poor educational outcomes. 

Ideal Candidate: This role is perfect for someone with experience in policy and public affairs who’s ready to elevate their career. If you have experience working with MPs, charities, or think tanks and are familiar with the Westminster political landscape, we would love to hear from you. 

Key Qualities and Experience:

• Strong policy writing skills

• Experience in political engagement and identifying opportunities for impactful change.

• Knowledge of the education sector is desirable but  a passion for fostering equal opportunities for all children is a must

Benefits:

• 28 days’ holiday

• Pension and life assurance

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme

Bring your skills, drive, and commitment to SHS, and join us in making a real difference in children’s lives

TreeHouse School is an Ofsted “Outstanding” SEN School for children and young adults aged 3-19 with a primary diagnosis of autism (most of whom have additional learning, social, emotional, communication, health and care needs). 

Our Ambitious approach ensures that, through our curriculum and delivtery, we focus on delivering quality of life outcomes for our children and young people.

We are proud to announce that we have retained Ofsted "Outstanding" (June 2024) in all areas. Please do read our Ofsted reports on our website.

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, qualified SEND Teacher to join us on our ambitious journey. Your day to day role will include delivering creative and person-centred lessons to up to 8 learners in a pre-formal class.

We will consider ECT's for this role.

Why join us?

• 11 weeks annual leave per academic year
• Free healthy breakfast available every day
• Working with Autism/learning disability industry experts across our school and our charity
• Autonomy in your role – You have the freedom to be creativity and get to see first hand our learners progress and achieve their goals and aspirations (as well as your ideas coming to life in the classroom).
• Mental health and wellbeing are at the core of everything we do; The SLT practise “compassionate leadership”.
• Continued professional development and training including a wide range of in house and external training courses.
• Annual staff recognition awards.
• Eye test vouchers, season ticket loans and a cycle to work scheme (plus a bike shed outside the school).
• Employee Assistance Programme: to help you balance your work, family, and personal life.
• Access to physiotherapy.
• On-site parking is available

Your role:

• Provide excellent delivery, teaching and course leadership to learners across TreeHouse School.
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of the children and young people we support.
• Work with pupils to ensure they receive a service that delivers the outcomes specified in their individualised learning, person-centred plans.
• Prepare and deliver schemes of work, lesson plans, assignments and assessments in line with departmental and awarding body requirements.
• Work collaboratively with allied health professionals as part of a trans-disciplinary team.

Our learners are mostly pre-verbal or use assistive communication systems to make their needs understood and follow different pathways depending on their needs and strengths, these are pre, semi and formal and you can read more on our website.

(Please refer to our JD and FAQ document attached to our website for more details).

Closing date: Tuesday 10th of December 2024 

Shortlisting date: Wednesday 11th of December 2024

Interviews date: Wednesday 18th of December 2024

Start date: Easter 2025

Assessment: You will be asked to attend a formal interview (45 minutes - 1 hour) and you will conduct a Micro Teach (20-30 minutes) with a group of pupils. 

Ambitious about Autism is fully committed to equality of opportunity and diversity andwe warmly welcome applications from all suitably-qualified candidates. We welcome applications regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion

or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, or age. All applications will be considered solely on merit.

Ambitious about Autism is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and successful candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check. As part of our Safer Recruitment checks, an online search maybe carried out in line with Keeping Children Safe in Education.

The Safeguarding responsibilities of the post as per the job description and personal specification. Whether the post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendment to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2021. This means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected', so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS Filter Guidance.

We’re excited to recruit for this role at Herts SU, giving the successful candidate the chance to shape the future of Academic Communities at the University of Hertfordshire.

You’ll be at the heart of an innovative approach, working closely with students, staff, and colleagues to recruit, train, and empower our Academic Communities to thrive.

This role is all about making an impact — from creating exciting development opportunities to celebrating the hard work of our incredible Student Leaders (Academic Societies, Student Reps, School Community Organisers). No two days will be the same, so if you thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

You’ll also take the lead in organising Student Council meetings, helping Elected Officers deliver impactful updates and ensuring our student voice is heard loud and clear.

ABOUT US

School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) is a charity that exists to empower and support children who are struggling to thrive in their education. By fostering an environment of genuine acceptance and through the use of physical activity and group and one-to-one support sessions, SOHK enables people to find meaning and purpose to life. All of SOHK's activities are underpinned by an evidence based sport for development framework called the 5Cs.

OVERVIEW

School of Hard Knocks is embarking on an ambitious new 3-year fundraising strategy that will see us more than double our income and increase our audience reach so we can support more young people to complete their education and reach their potential. We have not yet proactively explored challenge events or community fundraising and yet we believe this could be an exciting growth area for the charity. We currently run one special event a year, but again, we see opportunity to grow our calendar of special and donor engagement events.

The purpose of this role is to build challenge and special event and community fundraising to support the delivery of our ambitious fundraising strategy. You will be an enthusiastic fundraiser, focused on building growth in our events portfolio and bringing creativity and events knowledge to the role. You will develop excellent relationships with our donors and corporate partners who engage in our events, supporting them to maximise their fundraising for the charity.

You will need to use your experience, creativity and proven event planning skills to ensure the success of our ambitious plans for achieving an effective events calendar for the charity.

This is a maternity cover contract with the potential to extend after the initial 12 months.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Events Fundraising:

• Work to achieve the Fundraising strategy by effectively initiating and delivering a calendar of challenge and special events suitable for our audiences across the UK, that will drive audience reach and income, focusing on delivering a good return on investment and achieving set objectives.
• Develop excellent donor journeys for all participants and attendees, putting in place effective and efficient processes and procedures.
• Work with the Marketing and Communications Manager to design and implement appropriate marketing strategies to maximise participation for all events including pre-, during- and post-event publicity.
• With support from the Communications team, develop timely social media content and achieve local media coverage by gathering compelling supporter stories.
• Ensure all supporter records are kept up to date with all interactions and the highest quality data is captured.
• Effectively follow all appropriate protocols and policies for the handling and receipting of donations and sponsorship monies and accurate recording of supporter information. Ensure all information is recorded in line with data protection legislation (GDPR).
• Work with the wider Fundraising and Communications Team to ensure a seamless donor experience for all and optimise cross-selling opportunities where appropriate.
• Monitor progress against set KPIs, report analysis of challenge events to the Director of Fundraising and review performance to ensure effectiveness. Provide relevant data and insight to inform next steps and plans for future growth.

Community Fundraising:

• Work with the Director of Fundraising to devise and implement an annual fundraising plan for community fundraising.
• Work with the Regional Fundraising Managers to maximise opportunities for Community fundraising in the areas we work in.
• Steward all community fundraising activities in England, ensuring our supporters have all the information and materials they need to make their events a success.
• Proactively seek new community partnership opportunities. Liaise with relevant members of staff to attend new business meetings and write compelling cases for support to win local community partnerships.

Other:

• Deliver safe fundraising events and activities ensuring the charity always operates within legal requirements and best practice. Ensure risk assessments are completed on events.
• Be willing and flexible to work outside of office hours to attend events, when necessary. Must be willing to travel around the UK on occasions to attend fundraising events and activities.
• Foster effective and productive relationships with key stakeholders including Corporate Social Responsibility Managers, Chairs & Trusties, senior volunteers and event coordinators.
• Represent the Charity’s Mission by speaking passionately about the charity to donors, and delivering presentations and talks on occasions, inspiring them to join in our mission to make a difference.
• Proactively seek out new opportunities for the charity to grow our income.
• Always work to collaborate across teams to enhance fundraising efforts and strengthen donor engagement.
• Assist in developing fundraising strategies and contribute innovative ideas.

ABOUT YOU

Knowledge & Experience:

• Fundraising Expertise: A proven track record of achieving financial targets through fundraising activities, ideally in mass participation and/or special events.
• Relationship Management: Demonstrable experience in building and nurturing strong relationships with a wide variety of individuals – ranging from community fundraisers to senior volunteers or senior-level corporate executives - to drive engagement and income. Skilled in identifying, establishing, and retaining new supporters, with a focus on effective supporter care and stewardship.
• Digital Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of CRM systems and relevant digital platforms to manage supporter data, track engagement, and enhance communication strategies. Experience using digital tools to streamline processes and optimise fundraising outcomes.
• Fundraising legalities and health and safety. Demonstrable understanding of Fundraising legalities and requirements to hosting a safe fundraising event for all. Excellent understanding of GDPR and integrity in data handling and management.

Skills:

• Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills to recruit and retain supporters, with experience in creating engaging presentations and delivering public speeches to diverse audiences.
• Teamwork and Independence: Confident and self-motivated, able to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Strategic Thinking & Creativity: Able to translate strategic aims into plans, with strong research and problem-solving abilities. Quick to identify and act on new opportunities.
• Organisation: Strong planning and organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities and maintain attention to detail.

TERMS OF APPOINTMENT

• This is an interim role, for 12 months from January 2025.
• The salary is £30,000 - 32,000 depending on experience.
• You will get 25 days annual leave per year plus UK National Holidays. Also, we give any normal working days between Christmas and New Year as additional holidays.
• Reasonable flexible working arrangement offered, but you must have the ability to work outside of core hours and travel across the UK when necessary.

We believe anyone in our community should have enough to feed themselves and their family. That is why we provide three days' nutritionally balanced emergency food packs to local people who are referred to us in crisis. We also offer additional advice and support to help people address the underlying issues.

Our work is made possible by a group of amazing volunteers and a small passionate staff team. As part of the overall management team, the Volunteers and Warehouse Manager will be responsible for the recruitment, induction, training and scheduling of rotas for our dedicated team of volunteers across all foodbank activities and will lead in the organisation and running of school holiday family lunches, cookery classes, Duke of Edinburgh student volunteering programme, and social events for volunteers. They will also be responsible for the day-to-day functions of the onsite warehouse units ensuring adequate stock levels and apprpriate stock rotation.   

Become a Self-Employed Independent Visitor!

Locations: Meath School, Surrey and Dawn House School, Nottinghamshire
Salary: Negotiable per visit (plus travel expenses)
Job Type: Part-time, one half termly visits at each school
Sector: /Education / Advocacy /Social Care

Apply Now – Nationwide or local Applicants Welcome!

About Meath School

Meath, a Speech and Language UK School, is a day and residential non-maintained primary special school for up to 75 pupils aged 4 to 11 years, where Speech and/or Language Disorder and associated difficulties is the primary need. Our most recent Ofsted report (2023) is highly positive about the work of the school and the progress which our children make. ‘Pupils are happy and safe, and they enjoy being in school. They comment that ‘everyone can have friends here’.

About Dawn House School

Dawn House School is part of Speech and Language UK, dedicated to supporting children with severe and complex speech, language, and communication needs. We provide integrated education, therapy, and care to pupils aged 5-19. Our school has been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted and offers a collaborative, child-centered environment. Join our passionate and dynamic team, where we empower young people to achieve their full potential.

About The Role

Speech and Language UK is recruiting Independent Visitors to provide essential support and guidance to our residential special school in all areas the national minimum standards.

Key Responsibilities:

To fulfil the requirements of Standard 3 of the national minimum standards for residential special schools, which includes:

• Conduct six unannounced visits to ensure the highest standards of care, aligned with national regulations.
• Write and submit reports on the conduct of the school with any recommendations within two weeks of the visit.
• Collaborate with staff members, and other key stakeholders to monitor compliance and safeguard the welfare of residents.
• Meet with children, parents, other stakeholders, senior management and other staff in the school
• Check school records, including, but not restricted to, attendance, restraint, risk assessment and care plans
• Evaluate the quality of the provision and effectiveness of the care provided to children and whether they are safeguarded
• Assess the suitability of the physical condition of the residential provision and its external environment

What We Are Looking For:

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of regulated services and their inspection frameworks
• Experience of working within an educational setting, social or health care organisation, safeguarding, residential care, youth work, or related fields
• Knowledge of current care legislation and statutory guidance relating to children and young people
• Strong communication and relationship management skills.

This is a flexible, self-employed role perfect for experienced professionals looking for meaningful, impactful work.

How to Apply: Please check candidate pack available on our website

Closing Date: Monday, 9th December at 9am.

Accessibility Support: We are committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you require any adjustments or need to apply in a different format, please contact our People Team and we will be happy to assist you.

We are a Disability Confident Committed Employer.

Speech and Language UK is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We carry out appropriate vetting and verifications on all staff. Please find details of our safeguarding policy

All shortlisted candidates will be subject to an online search covering content that is in the public domain. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education the successful candidate’s employment is subject to an enhanced DBS and barred list check.

The Senior Youth and Play Worker will play a pivotal role in the Children, Young People and Families team, working as the senior practitioner and ensuring the smooth running of all our programmes and services. In this role you will be part of a small and dynamic team which delivers a wide range of programmes and activities, both from our adventure playground and within local schools.

The work of the Children, Young People and Families team is diverse, and current services include open access free play and youth activities at our adventure playground, school holiday programmes with trips and activities outside of the playground, coaching in local schools, our Young Leaders programme offering paid work experience to young people and working with our youth partnerships Building Young Brixton and Lambeth Peer Action Collective. You will ensure these services are appropriately scheduled, monitored and reported on whilst working with the Head of Children, Young People and Families to plan and deliver service improvement. You will understand the wide-ranging challenges facing young people and will be flexible in adjusting your practice to meet these needs.

To be successful in this role, you will act as the senior practitioner in all our service delivery, advocating for children’s right to play throughout our programmes. You will lead on the delivery and planning of all sessions, ensuring that the children and young people’s ideas are central in the construction of a varied and engaging play environment. You will also monitor and evaluate activities in line with the Play Work Principles and requirements from our funders.

Benefits of working at High Trees

• 35 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays and 3 Christmas days) rising by 1 day each year after 2 years’ service (capped at an additional 8 days)
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave after 2 years’ service
• Save money off a new bike with the Cycle to Work scheme
• Up to 7% contribution to the staff pension scheme
• 24/7 Employee Support Line
• Clear pay structure with yearly increments (based on performance)
• Annual Staff away day
• Premium eye-care vouchers through Specsavers and season ticket loans

Making The Leap is an innovative societal change charity that aims to make a big difference. From direct delivery, to advocacy and leadership, we refuse to stay in our lane and believe passionately that those we exist to serve have the right to be anything they want to be. To say that this is an exciting time for the organisation would be an understatement, as our incredible funders, donors, partners and supporters have given us the chance to move to the next level, and have further influence and delivery nationally.

The shared soul of the organisation is to be passionate about helping young people from less-advantaged backgrounds; build up other charities and community groups and want to partner with them or support them; want to work with businesses and organisations to get things done; and care deeply about addressing racial inequity.

The organisation has a number of strands: core Making The Leap; the UK Social Mobility Awards; the Social Mobility Podcast; Black Charity Leaders and The Social Mobility List.

Wells Cathedral School is searching for a new Director of Development and Head of Foundation to secure long-term support, and increase their inspiring and creative approach to education.

Location: Wells, Somerset with hybrid options

Closing date: 9 a.m. Monday 16th December

Who we are.

Wells Cathedral School has been educating children for over a thousand years in what must be one of the world’s most beautiful and inspiring locations.

Alongside its remarkable history and provision of an all-round education, the School also has the prestigious honour of being only one of five Specialist Music Schools in the UK within the Department for Education (DfE) Music and Dance Scheme, meaning it is nationally and globally renowned for music and choristry.

The School has so many special qualities and a big emphasis on bursaries enabling it to be a diverse, creative and welcoming environment for all. The School plays a huge role in the community through many events, concerts and activities, and they have plans to develop this further.

Having launched their brand new ‘Play Your Part’ campaign to much fanfare, they now need a brilliant senior development leader to ensure its success.

About the role.

The Director of Development and Head of Foundation will execute and evolve a recently developed strategy for a significant ramp-up in the fundraising activity of Wells Cathedral School Foundation, initially focused on funding bursaries and small-scale estate developments. They will also ensure the effective work of the School’s supporting bodies and lead on building good relations with alumni and delivering a legacy programme.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Implement our strategy for fundraising consistent with best practice and the objectives of the Foundation.
• To promote and develop the Foundation as the central charity in the School’s fundraising operation.
• Undertake direct fundraising, either individually or in conjunction with the Head Master and Foundation Trustees.
• Find innovative ways of engaging alumni and other friends of the School in Foundation and fundraising activities, including liaising with the Chair of the Old Wellensian (OW) Association for the planning and overseeing the organisation of appropriate alumni events and communications plans.
• Build positive relationships with pupils, colleagues, parents and other members of the wider WCS community, both nationally and internationally. This includes OWs, Wells Cathedral Chorister Trust (WCCT), Friends of Music and Wells Cathedral Choir Association (WCCA).
• Oversee the maintenance and development of the Toucan Tech CRM and community website. Grow and maintain a database of all volunteers, donors and donor prospects that supports the engagement and fundraising strategy.
• Cultivate and continue to grow a portfolio of potential major donor prospects and deliver significant gifts from individuals, organisations and businesses.
• Strengthen existing donor networks and develop further networks.
• Recruit and organise fundraising volunteers of alumni, parents, former parents and other friends and supporters of the School.
• Ensure the Wells Cathedral School Foundation meets its budgets and targets as appropriate.

Who we are looking for.

We are searching for creative, talented and passionate senior fundraisers and development professionals who place relationships at the heart of all they do.

Wells has a multi-income strategy and campaign ready to go, so we require operational excellence and a strategic mindset to ensure their successful delivery.

Candidates who understand the unique offering of the School and who can articulate its importance to many audiences will be successful in this role. Therefore we are searching for intelligent, confident and warm candidates.

Please click 'Apply via website’ to be redirected to the Peridot Partners website, where you can find full details of the candidate profile and register your interest to apply.

Applications for this role close at 9 a.m. Monday 16th December.

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 someone 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 fixed-term contract as an Education Worker at our centre in Liverpool. 

Contract

Full-time, fixed-term until April 2025

Start date

As soon as possible, to be agreed directly with the successful candidate.

Working hours

Mon and Thurs: 09:30-18:00 Tues, Weds, Fri: 09:00-17:30 (Some out-of-hours work will be required from time to time - for example, early starts to deliver workshops in schools.)

Education Workers are based at one of our IntoUniversity learning centres and work directly with young people, schools and families on a daily basis. It is therefore not a hybrid role and is based full-time in our centres. 

Salary

27,400

Location

IntoUniversity North Liverpool

The role requires intermittent travel in your region (usually within the day) this can involve journeys times of 1 hour+.

Occasional travel out of your local area e.g. to London is also required, this may include overnight stays.

Annual leave

Full-time staff entitlement, pro-rated for part-time staff: 33 days (inc bank & public holidays) + 3 closure days (two in December and one in July) + additional length of service entitlement (one day per year of service, up to 5 days)

Staff benefits

• Employer pension contributions of 6% (and up to 8% after two years)
• Year round ‘early finish’ Fridays at 4.30pm – Employee Assistance Programme including access to medical and legal support
• Life Assurance scheme with AIG including SmartHealth service with access to 24/7 online GP appointments
• Interest-free new starter loans of up to £1,000
• Cycle to Work Scheme and Travelcard Loan Scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay and sick pay allowances
• Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year

There is not a fixed deadline. Instead, we will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and will appoint when we have found the right candidate, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Background

Chapter One is a dynamic, growing charity with a vision of a world in which all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive. Our mission is to close the reading gap by providing children with one-to-one support at the time they need it most. We work in eleven areas/regions of the UK and will support 3250 children in 2024-25.

Our unique Online Reading Volunteer programme pairs struggling five to seven-year old (KS1) readers with reading support volunteers who are working professionals. The volunteer ask is very focused: readers commit 30 minutes a week to read with a child using a bespoke digital platform for an entire academic year. The results are transformative, boosting children's reading confidence and ability.

From a school perspective, online reading volunteers provide direct, meaningful literacy support for up to 10 pupils per class. The programme is particularly suitable for communities where it might be challenging to find parents and other volunteers who can commit to physically visiting schools to boost reading.

Job Summary

Chapter One is seeking a Manchester Programme Manager who is an excellent communicator and is able both to motivate and support schools and teachers to implement our online reading volunteers programme, and also to ensure that the programme’s impact and benefit to children facing disadvantage communities is maximised throughout the academic year.

The post is ideal for someone looking for part-time, flexible, term-time only work from a home base, but who is also able to travel frequently around the Greater Manchester area to visit schools.The postholder will be joining a team of established Programme Managers (also part-time) who work in different parts of the UK and will need to have some flexibility to work additional hours during busy autumn months, and conversely to work fewer hours during quieter periods of the year. The weekly hours for this role (currently 12-14 p/week) are likely to increase in future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively explain Chapter One’s online reading volunteer programme and its benefits to school leaders and teachers

• Install, setup and maintain Chapter One equipment in participating classrooms

• Fully understand the operation of the Chapter One platform and database and communicate this to others

• Organise and conduct initial teacher training and follow-up

• Ensure a smooth initial launch of Chapter One’s programme in every classroom

• Liaise with colleagues performing technical and volunteer support roles

• Through regular visits to/contact with schools, provide on-going embedded professional learning and support to teachers throughout the year as needed

• Proactively monitor classroom adherence/fidelity to the Chapter One model, including systematic review of data reports and volunteer feedback, taking proactive action to resolve problems that arise

• Analyse and manipulate data (largely in Google sheets) to produce reports and identify trends

• Create monthly data summaries for all participating classrooms

• Lead annual review meetings for senior leadership at participating schools

• Support programme monitoring, evaluation and research as required

• Coordinate in person and virtual school ‘visits’ of volunteer teams to classrooms where necessary

• Liaison with corporate partners as required

• Weekly communication and status updates with Senior Programme Manager(s) and wider team

• As a new school year approaches, secure commitments from returning schools and find and target new schools to join Chapter One’s programme

Role Requirements:

Essential

• Highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Proven track record of working at a senior level in education, project management or a related field
• Proven strength in both written and verbal communication
• Highly IT literate, with excellent computer skills, able to troubleshoot software issues and adept with Google suite
• Ability to manipulate and analyse to draw useful conclusions to improve programme delivery
• Proven ability to work independently
• Self-starter and quick learner
• Ability to adapt and embrace a changing environment
• University degree
• Ability to drive and access to a car for work purposes

Desirable

• Teaching/education experience with primary age children

Chapter One is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value and celebrate diversity in backgrounds and experience and are deliberate about the kind of teams we are building. Literacy is a universal concern, and we need people from all backgrounds to maximise our innovation, creativity and impact. We especially welcome applications from persons who have experienced disadvantage and/or from those who are of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who are currently underrepresented in the organisation.

Chapter One is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All postholders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service disclosure. Copies of our Safeguarding Policy and Safer Recruitment Policy are available on request.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing and friendly team in a dynamic regional charity.

The Charity has consistently punched above its weight, achieving an impact beyond its size.  Since 2000, we have invested over £45m in vital research activities in the region’s top hospitals and universities, constantly pushing the boundaries forward in the fight against cancer.  We have also launched influential, region-wide initiatives, including award-winning public health campaigns, a leading-edge annual Regional Report on cancer and creating the innovative Lab-Coat Learning education programme for the region’s schools as well as launching a retail chain.

We are driven by the difference we are making in the fight against cancer.  If this is a fight which excites and inspires you, then step forward: we’d love to hear from you.

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 someone 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, part-time role as an Education Worker at our centre in Bradford, helping to change the lives of young people.

Locations: Bradford
Contract: Part-time, permanent
Applications close: 9am Monday 9th December 2024
Start date: As soon as possible, to be agreed directly with the successful candidate.

Salary

£27,400 per annum (pro rata). The pro-rated salary for this role is £13,700 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.