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About Roots Academy

At Roots Academy, we’ve built a learning experience that’s changing the lives of the ummah’s future leaders, change-makers and visionaries.

Our vision is enabling university students to live God-centred lives, so we teach structured, engaging and transformative face-to-face foundational Islamic education to over 1,800 students across the UK.

Role Summary

Regional lead responsible for establishing partnerships with University Islamic Societies (ISocs) and maintaining positive relationships with these sites.

Key tasks

• Actively establish and maintain positive relationships with the ISoc committees and Student Ambassadors to ensure an exceptional onsite experience for students and promote retention of sites
• Be responsible for overseeing all onsite logistics through liaison with the Student Ambassador to ensure that onsite logistics including advertising of the class and other required tasks are taken care of by the ISoc
• Be the point of contact for ISocs: answer questions from the ISoc committees and Student Ambassadors to the best of your ability and engage them on a 1-1 basis, listen to their needs and concerns and addressing these accordingly
• Collect ideas and best-practices from how different ISocs are delivering their class
• Participate in delivering an onboarding webinar for ISocs prior to the start of the academic year
• Be the point of contact internally for any queries or updates related to assigned ISocs

What we’re looking for

• An understanding of the Muslim university scene and how university ISocs in the UK operate.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability and keenness to make and maintain genuine connections with people
• Ability to travel regionally for face-to-face meetings with ISoc committees

What we have to offer

• Be part of a team of 40+ dedicated volunteers from across the country.
• Receive continuous rewards for those that seek Islamic knowledge from the Roots platform.
• Be a part of a growing organisation that aims to revive and educate Muslims from a grassroots perspective.
• Receive in-house tarbiyah sessions to develop your deen.

Please note this is an unpaid volunteer position.
Volunteers are entitled to claim expenses incurred for food, travel and equipment, in line with our
Expenses policy.