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20/20 Levels is a social mobility organisation dedicated to empowering black and racially underrepresented young people to maximise their potential through opportunities. We provide career and business development programs, mentorship, and opportunities to help young talent thrive in their chosen industries. Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we are looking for a passionate and creative Social Media Manager to help amplify our impact through digital channels.

Role Overview

As the Social Media Manager, you will play a key role in enhancing 20/20 Levels’ digital presence by creating, managing, and growing our social media platforms. You will be responsible for creating engaging content, designing visually appealing assets, scheduling posts, analysing performance metrics, and interacting with our online community. This role is ideal for someone who is creative, detail-oriented, and passionate about using digital media to drive engagement and brand awareness.

This role reports directly to the Marketing & Communications Lead and works closely with programme teams to amplify their work.

Key Responsibilities

Content Creation & Management

● Manage the 20/20 Level’s social media accounts (Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and YouTube), including content creation, scheduling (using programs like Later), and engagement.

● Create compelling written, visual, and video content that aligns with 20/20 Levels' mission and brand,  including graphics, reels, captions, and TikTok posts.

● Monitor social media channels for trends, conversations, and mentions related to our industry and brand.

● Design materials for internal communications, including newsletters, announcements and marketing materials and team updates

● Assist in maintaining a content library, organising media assets, and archiving materials for future use.

● Collaborate with our Marketing and Communications Lead to brainstorm and contribute creative ideas for campaigns and promotions.

Community Engagement

● Engage with our online community by responding to comments, messages, and inquiries in a timely and professional manner

● Foster meaningful conversations and positive online interactions to strengthen audience relationships

● Collaborate with internal teams to showcase program updates, success stories, and upcoming initiatives

Performance Tracking & Strategy

● Monitor trends and insights to optimise content strategy and maximise visibility and engagement

● Track, analyse, and report on social media performance, making data-driven recommendations for improvement

● Assist in running social media campaigns and influencer partnerships

● Stay up to date with the latest digital trends and best practices to keep our content fresh and relevant

Qualifications & Skills

● Previous experience in social media management, digital marketing, or content creation (internships or personal projects welcomed)

● Strong understanding of various social media platforms and their best practices

● Excellent written and visual storytelling skills

● Strong verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain performance metrics and communicate ideas clearly and quickly.

● Graphic design and video editing skills (knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, Canva, Adobe Suite, CapCut, Indesign & Illustrator)

● Ability to analyse metrics and adjust strategies accordingly

● Creative thinker with an eye for detail and brand consistency

● Passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, with an understanding of the challenges faced by underrepresented young people in the workforce

● Ability to work independently while collaborating with a team

Benefits of Working with 20/20 Levels

● Opportunity to contribute to a meaningful mission and make a real impact

● Flexible working arrangements

● Professional development and mentorship opportunities

● Exposure to a dynamic and supportive community

INTERVIEWS ON 12TH NOV!!! 

Role Summary

Are you a successful volunteering or alumni relations professional looking for your next challenge? Do you have a passion for supporting graduates and enhancing the student experience? Are you looking to develop your career at a prestigious organisation?

We are looking for an Alumni Relations Manager to lead the alumni relations activity for Birmingham Business School. In collaboration with the College Alumni Relations Manager, the postholder will support the strategic aims of the Business School, College of Social Sciences and the Development and Alumni Relations Office through the development, planning and implementation of a bold and innovative alumni volunteering programme for the Business School within the College of Social Sciences.

As part of the DARO team for the College, you will be based both within DARO and the College. As part of the wider volunteering team, you will deliver a range of volunteering opportunities for alumni, which support the implementation of the College of Social Sciences’ 2030 strategy, as well as delivering Birmingham 2030 targets. You will play a key role securing volunteers for a broad range of priorities within the Business School, including student experience, graduate employability, supporting international recruitment, and global brand and reputation. You will work with colleagues across DARO and College to bring alumni closer to the University to support philanthropic giving.

The role of Business School Alumni Relations Manager is responsible for the development, planning and implementation of an alumni volunteering strategy for the Business School. We are looking for a motivated team player with the ability to build relationships across a wide range of stakeholders, influence, project manage and make meaningful activity happen. If you are passionate about connecting people and helping to support the employability of students, this is the role for you!

DARO exists to support this academic and student community by engaging, inspiring, and celebrating alumni, individuals, and charitable funders who give their money, time, and networks to support the University’s strategic priorities. The Office, which is comprised of five teams, is focused on fundraising and volunteering from alumni, organisations and individuals who are passionate about changing lives, through funding various research projects, supporting student bursaries, mentoring students, and providing internships, as well as providing a versatile programme of engagement opportunities for our global alumni community.

Birmingham Business School's vision is to promote curiosity and thought leadership for responsible business. Across its education and research frameworks, it is embedding a culture of responsible business and inclusive values and stepping up to be key contributors to the responsible business agenda. This is an exciting time to join Birmingham Business School which, along with just a handful of the world’s business schools, holds the gold standard of ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) and holds Bronze Athena Swan Award for its commitment to gender equality. 

We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.

This is a new role within the Programmes Directorate to support the expansion of the Trust’s in-house impact evaluation. The Sutton Trust has an excellent reputation in this field with well-developed theories of change, robust evaluation framework and extensive data and feedback from programme participants. This role will be vital for delivering internal evaluation projects of Sutton Trust programmes, supporting with data collection and management across multiple platforms, contributing to and implementing our impact strategy and developing expertise in data analysis, project management, and data management.

The role will report to the Senior Impact and Evaluation Manager, alongside working with the Systems and Evaluation Manager, and others across the Programmes team.

Main duties

• Working with the team to deliver the Trust’s impact strategy. This includes analysing both qualitative and quantitative data on the Trust’s programmes, creating reports to communicate findings, supporting with the collection and management of impact and engagement data, and supporting on external evaluation projects.

• Working with colleagues across the Programmes and Development teams to support with reporting programme numbers and data requests to funders and other key stakeholders.

• Support the Systems and Evaluation Manager with the innovation and development of our Salesforce CRM platform and other data-gathering platforms to ensure the ongoing collection and maintenance of high-quality data.

• Work across multiple data collection platforms that gather personal data on applicants to programmes and post-programme feedback data, to ensure processes are effective, efficient, and GDPR-compliant.

• Develop expertise in Salesforce, data analysis, and evaluation methodology via project work, proactively seeking development opportunities, by keeping up to date with developments in the sector, and attending external conferences.

• Working with external stakeholders and delivery partners to deliver training and communication about the charity’s impact and data systems.

• Supporting the creation and development of Theories of Change for the Programmes team.

• Other duties as necessary from time to time.

Person Specification

We welcome applications from individuals who have experience in:

• Experience handling and analysing large and complex datasets in Excel or a similar application
• Strong project management skills
• Demonstrates a willingness to learn
• Organised, independent and able to work to deadlines
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• High numerical literacy
• High degree of initiative and the ability to take responsibility for projects
• Personable and flexible; able to fit into a small team

Experience in/knowledge of the following areas will help you to stand out, but is not required, and training will be provided for the right candidate:

• Knowledge and experience of the higher education, education, and/or non-profit sectors
• Knowledge and experience of working with Salesforce
• Experience in impact evaluation or reporting within a non-profit or educational context

We are also looking for an individual who:

• Is sympathetic to the aims of the Trust and its mission to address educational disadvantage;
• Has excellent attention to detail;
• Has first-class interpersonal skills - a natural ambassador able to represent the Sutton Trust in a range of settings;
• Is eligible to work in the UK (see here for information about right to work)

Terms of Appointment

• Contract: Full-time, Permanent
• Salary: £34,000-£36,000
• Working location: Minimum of 2 office days per week
• Office location: The Sutton Trust, 9th Floor, Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP. Our home working policy gives staff the option to work from home for up to 60% of the time, with approval from their line manager.
• Hours: The standard working hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday and may also be required to attend events / meetings outside of their normal working hours during weekday evenings and occasionally at weekends
• DBS check may be required

Interviews

Applications should reach us by 10am, Monday 3rd November, with first round interviews held over Zoom on Wednesday, 12th November, and second round interviews held at our London offices on Thursday, 20th November.

Safeguarding statement

The Sutton Trust believes that a child, young person or vulnerable adult should never experience abuse of any kind. We all have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people and to keep them safe. Therefore all posts undergo a safer recruitment process, including but not limited to, disclosure of criminal records where necessary and eligibility to work in the UK. We have procedures in place to promote safeguarding and a safe culture at the Trust.

Contextual recruitment

The Trust is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity and that all applicants receive equal consideration for employment. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds, including those underrepresented at present at the Trust, to apply for this role. As such we particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds. We are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming place to work and know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for the young people we support.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for disabled candidates throughout our recruitment process and during employment.

We also operate contextual recruitment at the Sutton Trust. Our application process gives you the option to include information about your background, such as whether you were eligible for free school meals, whether your parents went to university, or whether you attended a state school. For more examples and information on contextual recruitment, please see our website.

You will be joining the newly formed Opportunities Team which has been designed to be holistically focussed on the growth of giver engagement, Partner engagement and thought leadership. Stewardship is often a surprise to new and potential clients and partners as they learn the breadth and depth of the services we can offer them, their families, their churches and the ministries they love. The Opportunities Team seeks to serve whoever we meet and triage their needs to the right expert in the Stewardship family. 

In this role you will work as part of our Opportunities Team to invite people into the community of generous Christian givers in the UK and serve UK Churches with support services and giving needs. You will attend events, speak on behalf of Stewardship and deliver content with excellence. You will have the opportunity to support the growth of Stewardship over the coming years as we identify new clients to join the ecosystem that enables Kingdom ministry to happen all over the UK and around the world. 

As a result of our Christian ethos, this post is covered by an Occupational Requirement (OR) under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010. The successful applicant will be expected to be a practising Christian and to clearly demonstrate a personal commitment to the mission, principles, values and practices contained in our Ethos Statement, by:

· Active membership of local church congregation.

· Undergoing course of teaching or training in personal financial stewardship and giving/generosity or experiencing the benefits from personal discipleship in this area.

An understanding of the faith aspects of the work of Christian charities, including the preparedness to pray with colleagues, where appropriate.

If you want to work at the heart of a charity in a small friendly team, leading an innovative programme to promote wellbeing and social inclusion, this is the job for you! 

The Stuart Low Trust (SLT) is a well-respected and award-winning charity based in Islington supporting people who isolated and experiencing mental health issues.  SLT was founded to be radically different from other local charities – uniquely accessible, inclusive and community-embedded. 

What the job offers 

You will be developing exciting new projects to serve Islington and surrounding boroughs in a culturally rich environment and vibrant voluntary sector.  Working closely with the Chief Executive, you will be introducing exciting plans to develop our service.  You will have freedom to develop activities, build partnerships and outreach to attract new and a wider diversity of participants reflecting local community needs.

Who we are seeking 

We are seeking a capable manager with track record coordinating delivery of a community-based activities programme within a charity or social care service.  You will thrive on a challenge and enjoy creative thinking, relationship-building with partner organisations and managing staff.  You will have experience of marketing a service to attract new participants.  You will have an understanding of the support needs of people who are isolated.  You will be able to learn from participant feedback to develop services. 

This post is subject to an Enhanced DBS check and two satisfactory references. 

We are embrace diversity, equality of opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that represents are variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.  The more inclusive we are, the more we can achieve. 

Key Benefits and opportunities: 

• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Occupational pension scheme 
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements with a small and friendly team.
• Access to training and development opportunities 
• Supportive management culture, line-managed by the Chief Executive, who has 30 years' experience in the charity sector 
• Opportunity to lead programmes/develop skills 

Application instructions 

Please note, while we appreciate the value of AI tools, we strongly prefer that applicants prepare their supporting statements with minimal use of AI.  This helps us to better understand your authentic voice, skills and motivation for this role.  Thank you. 

Deadline for applications: Sunday, 2 November 2025 at 12midnight
Interviews: Monday, 10 November 2025 
Estimated Start: December 2025-January 2026 

Key Details

Application deadline: October 19th, 11:59 pm London UK time. Applications will be processed on a rolling basis, so early applications are encouraged.

Expected Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)

Location: London (strongly preferred, visa sponsorship and moving costs support available); otherwise remote 

Compensation: Based on needs and location, the typical range in line with our salaries across the organisation is £40,000-50,000 gross per annum.

Start date: January 2026 preferred

About Ambitious Impact (AIM)

Ambitious Impact (AIM), formerly Charity Entrepreneurship, launches organizations that cost-effectively improve human and animal lives at scale. To do so, we find talented potential entrepreneurs and provide them with world-class training, research, mentorship, and funding to start new organizations. 

AIM’s work is grounded in the conviction that the world’s most significant problems can be solved by talented, dedicated entrepreneurs using evidence, innovation, and a laser focus on cost-effective impact. 

Since 2018, we have incubated over 50 charities, providing talented founders with evidence-based intervention ideas, ongoing mentorship, and seed funding. Together, they are estimated to improve the lives of more than 75 million people and 1 billion animals worldwide and have been backed by organizations like GiveWell, Mulago, the Gates Foundation, and Animal Charity Evaluators. 

Our flagship Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program currently launches ~10 nonprofits per year. In 2026, we want to double this, launching more than 20 charities improving lives at scale. Our bottleneck to launching more impactful charities isn't funding – it's finding the right people and ideas. Will you join us to help find the ideas that our next founders will turn into world-changing organizations?

If you’re curious what it’s like to work at AIM, we have just created a video where our team sits down to share their favorite aspects of the organisation, who might find it less of a good fit, and what kinds of people thrive with us.

About the Role

As a Recruitment Manager, you’ll drive our process for finding and selecting the founders of the new organizations we launch. This is a highly impactful role, for two key reasons:

1. The number of organizations we launch is currently limited by the number of exceptional founders we can find. Your ability to find and select an additional outstanding founder will likely result in an additional incredible organisation launching. For every Lucia Coulter & Jack Rafferty we find, we can launch another organisation like LEEP, preventing more than 44 million children suffering lead poisoning.

2. The biggest predictor of charity success we have is the strength of the co-founding team. If you can refine our recruitment process to reliably attract and select higher-potential founders, the organizations we launch will help more humans and animals at scale.

Our Recruitment team operates across two distinct, though overlapping, areas of work:

• Outreach - attracting high-potential entrepreneurs to apply

• Vetting - selecting the very best founders out of the applicant pool

We operate as a tight-knit team of four who work flexibly across the two domains. We anticipate a new hire doing both Outreach and Vetting work, with some possibility to specialise more in one direction or the other based on experience and preference. 

At AIM, we prize the ability of staff to work with speed, autonomy, and flexibility. We don’t expect you to have prior experience in recruitment. We do expect you to be a fast learner and excited about taking on whatever work is most essential on a given day. 

More concretely, you’ll split your time between the following:

• Outreach: Designing and executing campaigns to reach promising applicants; writing newsletters, social media posts, and outreach copy; attending conferences and events; and working closely with our communications team to build partnerships and grow our applicant pipeline.

• Vetting: Running multi-stage application processes, reviewing written applications and test tasks, conducting interviews, and refining our selection methods.

The role could be more junior or more senior, depending on the successful candidate: A more experienced hire will take more of a lead on designing the strategy they will execute, while a more junior hire will focus more on contributing to and learning strategic planning for the tasks they will execute at first.
 

Specific Responsibilities

(The exact % split may change based on updates to AIM’s strategy and the number of programs we are running.)

Executing Marketing & Communications Activities [40%]

• Designing and implementing multi-channel marketing campaigns across digital, traditional, and in-person channels (such as our website, newsletter, LinkedIn, job boards, and conferences)

• Identifying and persuading top talent to apply for our programs through one-to-one engagement, such as through LinkedIn, email, and online calls 

• Soliciting and collating referrals for potential top applicants to our programs, especially from members of our community and affiliated organisations

• Writing blog posts, newsletters, articles, and other copy in a clear, accurate, and convincing tone

• Attending conferences and other professional events to represent AIM, conducting talks, workshops, and 1-on-1 meetings

Executing our Candidate Selection Process [40%]

• Evaluating hundreds of application forms and test tasks to figure out which are the most promising, using a wide range of formal and informal indicators, heuristics, and other information

• Conducting and grading candidate interviews to help identify and select the most promising candidates to join our programs

• Project management for each application round to ensure each candidate receives accurate and timely information on decisions, next steps, and other details of the application process

• Automating aspects of the process to increase scalability and reduce staff time

Evaluation and Systems Improvement [20%]

• Collating and refining data on the cost-effectiveness of different communication methods for finding high-quality applicants to our programs

• Analyzing historical data to pull out findings to improve our selection rubrics for future rounds

• Testing potential new communication avenues, such as digital advertising or pitching articles to major publications

About You

We are looking for someone who is adaptable, fast-moving, and singularly committed to using their career to improve the world to the greatest reasonable extent they can. You will bring strong strategic thinking to the challenge of how and where we can find the very best potential founders, and how to select them from our applicant pool. 

We do not expect prior experience in recruitment or communications/marketing. What matters is the ability to learn quickly, work flexibly, and stay focused on impact.

What makes you a good fit:

• Excited by evaluating people’s skills, motivations, and potential

• Great at clear, transparent, and engaging communication - whether in-person or in writing

• Comfortable holding and weighing many different kinds of evidence when making judgments

• Interested in the drivers of high-level performance and how to spot these, such as through a background interest in psychology, sports, or business

• Able to work both independently and collaboratively in a small, fast-paced team

• Passionate about AIM’s mission
   

Potential bonus skills or experience:

• Hiring or recruitment experience

• Familiarity with complex project management

• Marketing or communications experience (especially in nonprofits or startups)

• Data analysis or spreadsheet fluency

• Familiarity with AIM, our incubated charities, and/or the effective altruism movement
   

What We Offer

• A role with huge, tangible impact: the people you select will go on to found and staff high-impact organizations

• Intellectual challenge and steep learning curve across recruitment, psychology, and outreach

• Flat hierarchy, low bureaucracy, and a supportive, impact-focused team of ~20

• 30 days of paid leave plus flexible working arrangements

• Parental, dependents, and compassionate leave schemes

• A range of other benefits, including a payroll giving scheme, staff tenure donation scheme, and a workplace pension

• An annual cost-covered retreat to bring our whole team together to celebrate our achievements

• Dedicated time and budget for personal development

• UK visa sponsorship and relocation support if needed

• A workspace in our vibrant London office hub for impact-focused organizations and AIM alumni, with flexibility to work remotely
   

Possible Progression to Director of Recruitment

While this role is advertised at the Recruitment Manager level, AIM’s current Director of Recruitment will be leaving their role in the next 6 months. For an exceptional candidate, we would be open to discussing an accelerated pathway into a Director of Recruitment position.

In this case, we would be particularly interested in candidates who bring:

• Demonstrated experience in complex project management and running multi-stage processes

• A track record of team leadership and people management

• The ability to provide strategic insight and shape the future of AIM’s recruitment, including the direction of our flagship Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program

If you are excited about stepping into a more senior leadership role, you will be able to flag your interest in this in the application form.

Application Process

Our application process is designed to be efficient and informative. Our application is designed to identify and evaluate skills that are actually predictive of an applicant’s performance on the job (such as test tasks) rather than conventional but less predictive assignments (such as cover letters). We only invite candidates to the next stage if we think they have a good chance of advancing, and take care to choose tasks and interview questions that will also give you a good sense of the role and our culture.

For this staff role, we will ask candidates to complete the following stages:

1. Written application (30–60 minutes)

2. Short test task & record interview (2 hours total)

3. Job simulation task (3 hours)

4. Final interview (~75 minutes)

5. Reference check
    

Applications close on October 19th. We assess applications on a rolling basis and encourage early applications. 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We particularly encourage applications from women, people of color, and neurodivergent applicants. If you need any adjustments during the application process, please email us.

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not. The Talent Foundry (TTF), a UK education charity, bridges this gap and improves social mobility for young people in underserved schools.

Educational inequalities are vast, and the widening disadvantage gap is diminishing social mobility progress. Working with our partners, including Barclays LifeSkills, Dell Technologies, Network Rail and the NHS we deliver industry-focused, skills workshops to enhance opportunities for young people (aged 9-18+).

Each year we impact 60,000 young people thanks to industry partnerships and their volunteers’ engagement across lightbulb moments in schools, through to intensive connections with employers.

The Programme Coordinator role 

Due to the exciting expansion of our programmes in the new academic year we are seeking a new team member on a fixed term basis to support our next year of growth and delivery.

In this role you will provide crucial customer service and administration to support the delivery of our inspiring employability and skills-focused workshops in schools. 

What you will be doing

• Coordination of multiple projects and events
• Using systems and administrative processes to arrange and manage workshop delivery
• Enhance our feedback and customer service to all our stakeholders, including schools and volunteers

The skills and experience you will bring

• Managing multiple and often conflicting priorities 
• Use of IT, data and systems to operate efficient programmes (MS office, inc. Excel)
• Working in a fast paced environment
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail
• Understanding the importance of deadlines and achieving targets
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Planning, coordination and organisation 
• Time management 
• Customer service delivery focussed with a desire to achieve targets and objectives
• Technology (inc. MS office, including excel and spreadsheets) and seeking ways to maximise IT in administration
• Problem-solving and using initiative

To read the full job information pack please download the attachment. Please read this before completing your application as it contains some helpful advice of what we are looking for. For safer recruitment purposes - please ensure your CV includes the month and date of your previous employment and includes information about any employment gaps. 

Job details

• £26,000 salary (pro-rata for part time)
• Full or part time opportunity (eg 5 or 4 days a week)
• Hybrid working*
• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Training budget

And if you join our team, you can expect to receive feedback like this from our former students: 

"I just wanted to say a big thank you for your help. Without networking with you I would not have been so prepared for it. If it wasn't for Powering Potential all those years ago I would not have developed into the person I am today. So for that, I thank you." 

*Hybrid working

This is a hybrid role. You will be working from home and join Team Together Days in a co-working space in London 2-3 individual days each month. These days are considered commuting days. You do not need to live in London to apply for this role, but you will need to consider what you feel is a reasonable commuting distance for you to attend the team days in London.

Safeguarding

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the wellbeing and welfare of children and we require everyone associated with The Talent Foundry Trust, including all trustees, employees, and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will need to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the role, including completing our Safer Recruitment process, references from past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks.

Key information

Location: Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle, Nottingham, or London

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (full time)

Start date: ASAP (we are happy to work with notice periods)

Duration: Permanent

Salary: £36,340 - £41,065 per annum if based in London. £33,690 - £38,410 per annum if based in Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle or Nottingham, plus a £312 yearly tax-free work from home allowance.

Application deadline: Monday 27th October, 12pm

About upReach 

Do you think that your socio-economic background should determine your career prospects?

upReach’s vision is of a society in which everybody has an equal opportunity to realise their full career potential. Our work is important because right now a student from disadvantaged background who gains a first-class degree from a top university is less likely to secure an elite job than a more privileged student with a 2.2. 

We are an award-winning charity employer working to address this issue in partnership with employers and universities. We help undergraduates from lower socioeconomic backgrounds achieve their career potential by providing an intensive programme of support that addresses socio-economic barriers to graduate employment. 

To find out more about how we support our students, visit our website and read our Annual Report, and Impact Report.

Role overview 

This role will play a pivotal part in delivering upReach’s new volunteering strategy, which unifies four historic strands (mentoring, Alumni, CSR-funded volunteering, and Programme Employer Partnerships) into a single, coherent framework.

Core Responsibilities

Please note that it is not possible for the job description to cover the exhaustive list of responsibilities of your role due to the varied nature of the role. The job description aims to provide an overview of your remit and core responsibilities. 

The Volunteering Programme Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the professional mentoring programme and Alumni Programme can operate smoothly and effectively, and for implementing our volunteering strategy to engage supporters in our work. 

You will be responsible for line managing team members working on upReach’s mentoring programme and Alumni Programme, and will work closely with the Programmes and Impact Enabling teams to ensure that volunteering opportunities are unified and cohesive.

1) MENTORING PROGRAMMES

• Provide strategic and operational oversight of upReach’s two mentoring programmes, Professional Mentoring (structured 6-month matches) and Ask an Expert (one-off interactions with professionals initiated by students).

• Manage stakeholder relationships with mentoring partners, ensuring a smooth and high-quality experience for all volunteers.

• Collaborate with Programmes and Partnerships teams to ensure that our mentoring supply and demand is balanced, identifying opportunities for development and working with teams to plan this.

• Produce robust and detailed reporting for participating partner employers on an ongoing basis, increasing the chances of renewals.

• Embed the professional mentoring programme within the wider volunteering framework, ensuring it complements Alumni and open access volunteering opportunities while maintaining the value of partner-funded packages.

2) ALUMNI PROGRAMME

• Provide strategic oversight and direction for the Alumni Programme, ensuring it aligns with upReach’s volunteering strategy and organisational goals.

• Ensure Alumni are engaged through a range of activities, including professional development opportunities, the Alumni Ambassador Board, and tailored communications.

• Oversee the creation and implementation of Alumni volunteering opportunities, ensuring these are impactful and complement wider partner-funded activity.

• Collaborate with Programmes, Fundraising, and MarComms teams to ensure Alumni engagement supports Associate development, fundraising, and long-term organisational sustainability.

• Monitor Alumni engagement data and outcomes, ensuring robust reporting to funders, stakeholders, and the Leadership Team.

3) VOLUNTEERING

• Implement our refreshed volunteering strategy, working in collaboration with the Partnerships, Fundraising and Programmes teams to ensure this meets the needs of the charity.

• Act as the first point of contact for all volunteer enquiries.

• Oversee the volunteer journey from attraction to offboarding, including clear onboarding, safeguarding processes, engagement activities, and recognition (e.g. events, certificates, digital acknowledgements).

• Conduct ongoing evaluation of volunteering activities and implement improvements as necessary.

• Collaborate with other teams across the organisation to identify opportunities for volunteers, and support with implementing this.

• Manage relationships with volunteers and organisations, ensuring positive experiences for all those involved with upReach in this capacity.

• Pilot and evaluate new open access volunteering initiatives, tracking impact through defined KPIs and reporting mechanisms.

• Work with Fundraising and MarComms teams to develop strategies for recognition, retention, and long-term ambassador engagement of volunteers.

4) LINE MANAGEMENT

• Manage relevant individuals within the Mentoring and Alumni team, providing ongoing personal and professional development support through weekly 1-to-1 calls or meetings, written feedback on documents, and day-to-day guidance via Slack. 

• Use relevant impact dashboards and data to set priorities for your team and to identify areas where support from the Programmes team is needed, to ensure that all internal KPIs are achieved.

• Managing the performance of your team - including setting SMART professional development goals and utilising a range of resources and tools where necessary to help your team perform successfully in their roles. Be part of the upReach Leadership Team and contribute to forming the strategy and direction of the charity. 

• Provide leadership in embedding volunteering as a strategic pillar of upReach’s mission, ensuring sustainability, scalability, and alignment with organisational growth.

Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate for Volunteering Programme Manager should display these skills: 

• Motivation - Displays a high level of self-motivation and ability to measure own progress, and can encourage and monitor others in their team to ensure everyone can  do their best work.

• Stakeholder engagement - Able to engage and communicate confidently with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

• Continuous improvement - Uses initiative to come up with ideas and improvements to achieve personal, team and organisational objectives.

• Planning and organising - Able to demonstrate a high level of organisational skills, ensuring that initiatives are designed to meet organisational KPIs, objectives and priorities, are accurately planned, and meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders. 

• Problem solving and decision-making - Confidently uses a range of problem solving techniques to resolve issues on behalf of the team or organisation, showing creativity and analytical thinking in their approach, and doing so following clearly defined processes but without supervision. 

• Innovative - Leads on new areas of innovation and, if necessary, enables and supports the team to make changes needed.

• Communication - Inspires team and others to engage fully with long term vision, purpose and strategy of upReach, with the ability to confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels to generate a commitment to these goals.

To be successful, it is anticipated that you would have experience in:

• Coordinating/managing volunteer initiatives

• Project/programme management

• Communicating with a variety of stakeholders, through written and verbal communication

Team Culture & Benefits: 

We offer: 

• Flexible and hybrid working.

• Statutory Holiday Entitlement of 25 days and bank holidays. This increases to 2 additional days after 2.5 years and then to 3 additional days after 5 years of working with us. 

• Birthday leave and Voluntary leave

• Enhanced Parental Leave beyond statutory requirements for all team members. 

• 3% Pension Contribution, which increased to 5% after 5 years of working with us. 

• Cycle-to-work scheme.

• Monthly socials and annual wellbeing days

• Dedication to Staff Wellbeing through our Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aid Training. 

• Personal Development Budget, activated after 6 months in the role.

• The opportunity to participate in our fantastic staff networks: 

  • Disability and Inclusion Network

  • Diverse Roots Network 

  • Green Network 

  • LGBTQ+ Network

  • Mindfulness Network

  • Parents and Carers Network

  • (Im)Migrants Network 

Ready to apply?

We are committed to making our recruitment process inclusive. All applications will be blind screened, and our job packs are available in Braille, large text or another format upon request. We can provide reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment application process and on the job, and we'll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible.

Applications close on Monday 27th October at 12pm.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

At upReach, we are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability, social background or any other protected class. We celebrate and value the diverse perspectives that people from all backgrounds bring to our team. We are passionate about creating a workplace that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of communities across the UK. Diversity in the workplace creates dynamic and effective organisations and we are actively working to build a more inclusive workforce by continuously improving our recruitment, retention, and development practices. We  encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups, including Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities , those who are care-experienced, those from low socio-economic backgrounds, and those who are LGBTQIA+.

Key Information:

LOCATION: Bristol, Newcastle, Nottingham, London and Manchester (hybrid working pattern). We are prioritising applications for the Nottingham and Newcastle locations in line with our regional development strategy.

HOURS: 37.5 hours per week (flexible working around core hours of 10am-4pm)

START DATE: 12th January 2026

DURATION: 18-month graduate programme with optional apprenticeship opportunity upon completion. Permanent contract from August 2025. 

SALARY: £27,375 per annum (Bristol, Manchester, Nottingham and Newcastle), £30,025 (London).

DEADLINE: Friday 24th October at 12pm (noon).

The application process: written application > telephone interview > assessment centre.

Assessment Centres will take place on w/c 10th November and w/c 17th November 2025. They will be conducted on Zoom and consist of 2 tasks over 70 minutes: An interview, and a pre-prepared presentation (we will send out the task brief upon invite to Assessment stage).

In keeping with upReach's mission and values we would particularly encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups and those with lived experience of barriers to social mobility.

We encourage all applicants to review our Application Pack before submitting your application.

About upReach

Do you think that your socio-economic background should determine your career prospects?

upReach’s vision is of a society in which everybody has an equal opportunity to realise their full career potential. Our work is important because right now a student from a disadvantaged background who gains a first-class degree from a top university is less likely to secure an elite job than a more privileged student with a 2.2.

We are an award-winning charity employer working to address this issue in partnership with employers and universities. We help undergraduates from lower socio-economic backgrounds achieve their career potential by providing an intensive programme of support that addresses socio-economic barriers to graduate employment. 

To find out more about how we support our students, visit our website and read our Annual Report, and Impact Report. 

About the Role

upReach is recruiting for our unique Future Charity  Leaders Programme (FCLP). This is a great opportunity for anyone who is passionate about social mobility, and looking to gain exposure to various aspects of charity management whilst working with university students who are exploring their career options. We welcome applications from those in the corporate world who are looking for a career change as well as recent graduates wanting to kick-start their career in the third sector.

About the FCLP

upReach’s Future Charity Leaders Programme (FCLP) is a graduate programme combining delivery work (supporting our Associates) with exposure to a range of aspects of charity management. 

As a Programme Coordinator on the FCLP you will be delivering personalised employment-focused support to a cohort of approximately 80 Associates, helping transform their lives by equipping them with the necessary skills to secure a top graduate job. During a typical week, you should expect to be working across a range of projects including 1:1 undergraduate coaching, group workshops, webinars (we refer to them as Video Forums), partnership management (with university partners or employer partners) and more!

In addition to this, the programme offers the opportunity to develop skills in key areas of charity management by participating in 3 rounds of six-month 'rotations'. After your initial 18 months and the completion of 3 six-month rotations, you will have the opportunity to undertake an apprenticeship in Leadership and Management to further develop your skills.

Throughout the programme, you will receive dedicated internal training developing your leadership skills and building your confidence in the role.

Through our partnership with The Circle Line, you will be part of a supportive peer group, offered regular personal development training workshops online and in-person on their '12 Tools for Life'. You will also be able to choose your own practitioner to support you with 1:1 sessions throughout the programme to help you unlock more of your unique potential.

What will I be doing?

The FCLP is a fast-paced but rewarding role. Programme Coordinators spend 80% of their time (4 days per week) working directly with Associates to enhance their career knowledge and skills and 20% (1 day per week) on a charity management rotation (or an apprenticeship after 18 months). No two days are the same, but your responsibilities may include:

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Associates, helping them to achieve their career goals 

• Developing and delivering professional development-focused support

• Individual and small group work with Associates 

• Assisting Associates with their applications to undergraduate positions and graduate jobs 

• Developing sector and/or employability skill knowledge while building resources to aid all Associates 

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with university and/or employer partners 

• Delivering informative workshops to enhance sector knowledge and employability skills

• Planning, delivering and reporting on events and workshops with partners

When applying for this role we ask that applicants are able to commit to the full 18-month training programme, and we encourage participation in the apprenticeship scheme beyond this. As you will be working directly with our beneficiaries throughout their degree, this consistency will allow you to build bonds with your Associates and ensure continuity, thus allowing us to have the most impact for the young people we work with.

What Skills and Experience do I need?

This programme would be suited to individuals who are committed to upReach’s mission, motivated to work with undergraduates and interested in learning about, and gaining experience in, charity management. We are looking for people who are passionate about social mobility and believe that background should not be a barrier to graduate employment. 

Essential Skills/Experiences:

• Working in a fast-paced environment and working independently to find solutions to problems

• Strong organisational and time management skills with a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage a varied workload

• A University degree in any discipline, or equivalent experience

• Self-motivation and an ability to work in a small team as well as solo

• Excellent communication skills and strong written English

• The ability to engage and communicate confidently with undergraduates, corporate volunteers (mentors) and employers via phone, email, and in person

• Experience of public speaking or facilitating workshops 

Desirable Skills/Experiences:

• Knowledge of the graduate labour market in the UK and experience supporting individuals through an application process 

• Strong negotiation skills and experience in roles requiring influence

• Working in one or more of the career sectors that upReach support Associates in applying to.

Team Culture & Benefits: 

By joining the upReach team, you will be joining a team who are dedicated to encouraging you in your career journey and fostering an inclusive culture. 

We offer: 

• Flexible working, hybrid working and reduced Summer Hours (June-August)

• Statutory Holiday Entitlement of 25 days, plus bank holidays. (This increases to 27 days entitlement after 2.5 years and then to 30 days after 5 years of working with us)

• Enhanced Parental Leave beyond statutory requirements for all team members

• Birthday leave, 1 day of Volunteering leave and annual wellbeing days

• Optional extended unpaid leave during summer months

• 3% Pension Contribution, this increases to 5% after 5 years of working with us 

• Cycle-to-work scheme, Tech loan scheme

• Monthly socials, Annual in-person Team Day

• Dedication to Staff Wellbeing through our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aid Training and Ethnic Minority Mentoring Scheme

• A range of discounts through the Charity Workers Discount and Tickets for Good websites

• The opportunity to participate in our fantastic staff networks: 

  • Disability and Inclusion Network

    Diverse Roots Network 

  • Green Network 

  • LGBTQ+ Network

  • Mindfulness Network

  • Parents and Carers Network

  • Socio-Economic Background Network

  • (Im)Migrants Network

Ready to apply?

We are dedicated to making our recruitment process inclusive. All applications will be blind screened, and our job packs are available in Braille, large text or another format upon request. We can provide reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment application process and on the job, and we'll always endeavour to be as accommodating as possible. 

Unfortunately, upReach is unable to offer Visa Sponsorship.

Applications close at 12 Noon on Friday 24th October.

Equal Opportunities

At upReach, we are committed to being an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability, social background or any other protected class. We celebrate and value the diverse perspectives that people from all backgrounds bring to our team. We are passionate about creating a workplace that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of communities across the UK. Thus, we encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups, including Black, Asian and other ethnic minority backgrounds, those with disabilities, those who are care-experienced, those from low socio-economic backgrounds, and those who are LGBTQIA+.

Note about the Recruitment Process:

Candidates will be expected to attend an in-person Assessment Day on Thursday 30th October as the next stage of the recruitment process for this role.

Main Purpose of the Role

Khulisa, meaning 'nurture' in the Zulu language of South Africa, is an award-winning charity dedicated to providing therapeutic support to young people. We focus on reaching those who are most at risk – young people from deprived communities who are often marginalized, vulnerable to exclusion, and at heightened risk of becoming involved in crime. Our approach centres on safe, exploratory methods that aim to understand behaviour and experiences often rooted in trauma, abuse, and neglect. We deliver intensive therapeutic programs within educational and community settings, empowering young people to confront the underlying causes of their emotional distress and work toward healing. To create lasting, sustainable change, we work to establish trauma-informed environments around young people by equipping parents, caregivers, educators, and other professionals with the tools they need to offer effective, supportive care. Currently, our services are active in London and Manchester.

As the post holder you will be responsible for delivering our front-line work to young people, parents and other adults (professionals). You will work in schools and in community settings across London to generate impact for young people using Khulisa’s trauma-informed approach. This role requires an enhanced DBS check.

The post holder will be required to work from home permanently but be willing and able to easily travel regularly to various locations in London as necessary to fulfil the requirements of the role, to deliver aspects of the programme, and to engage with other stakeholders and colleagues.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Programme Delivery:

· Facilitate the delivery of sessions in our flagship Face It programme and modular workshops to young people, our Nurturing Connections programme for parents and carers, and our trauma training for professionals.

· Facilitate delivery to a high standard in all settings (schools, youth services, and community spaces), ensuring that you are always taking a trauma informed approach.

· Facilitate various youth participation workshops, co-delivering with young people as much as practicable.

· Respond to any questions, disclosures or safeguarding concerns raised during sessions and follow up where necessary with the relevant safeguarding teams or, where consent is secured, make onward referrals for additional support in specific cases.

· Contribute to the continuous development of all aspects of the programmes, sharing new ideas and using best practice.

· Participate in the periodic review and updating of programme contents and/or development of new materials with relevant colleagues, ensuring that materials used across the team are always uniform and consistent.

· Maintain accurate records of programme activities, including record of input, output, and impact as well as demographics data, and support relevant colleagues in ensuring effective monitoring and periodic evaluation and reporting of impact generated.

· Manage relevant budgets and ensure a value for money approach to all expenditure, making sure to keep within budget.

Programme Coordination:

· Take direct responsibility for logistics of individual programme delivery or activity, including scheduling, resourcing, staffing, and liaising with schools and other partners to ensure effective delivery.

· Work with colleagues in Impact and Evidence team to provide programme data as required to effectively demonstrate impact generated through your delivery.

· Where possible during delivery, generate multi-media content for the use of colleagues in communications to use in updating the Khulisa website and for social media.

Stakeholder Management:

· Support the Programmes & Participation Manager in the building and maintenance of strong relationships with delivery partners - schools, community organisations, and other important stakeholders.

· Contribute to any work to use learning from delivery activities to redesign existing programmes and/or develop new pieces of work as required.

· If required, represent Khulisa at events, meetings, and conferences as required etc.

· Support the onboarding and training of Associate Facilitators and volunteers as necessary.

· When required, support the onboarding and training of other permanent programme staff.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

· Objectively review the successes and achievements of each delivery session facilitated against programme or activity objectives, identifying and implementing opportunities for making ongoing improvements.

· To actively deliver all elements of the Khulisa programme, including work with adults and Khulisa’s Young Influencers.

· Depending on experience and qualifications, to be receptive to any other duties as required by the line manager and in line with the needs of Khulisa.

· To develop and maintain good working relationships with colleagues and other professionals, and to participate in team meetings.

· To participate in personal supervision in accordance with Khulisa’s supervision and performance appraisal policy and attend agreed training as relevant.

· At all times to carry out the responsibilities of the post in a manner consistent with promoting equalities and diversity and demonstrate respect for colleagues and Khulisa’s aims and values.

· To maintain an awareness of own and others’ health and safety and comply with Khulisa’s Health and Safety policies and procedures.

· Occasional evenings and weekend (events) may be involved with time off in lieu agreed.

About the opportunity

We are now recruiting for a Programme Coordinator for our schools in the North West.

• The North West Programme Coordinator oversees a caseload of up to seven partner schools. They manage the logistics and organisation of each school’s tutoring programme, working closely with the schools and pupils and managing the pool of volunteer tutors. They attend the weekly tutoring sessions at each school, as well as overseeing the quality of face to face and online tutoring, always working to deliver a great impact.
• The North West Programme Coordinator supports the recruitment of volunteer tutors, manages the tutor sign up process, develops relationships with schools including their Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers, collects data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, and works with other internal teams on business development opportunities.

Deadline: Sunday, 26th October 2025
Interviews: Week commencing Monday, 3rd November 2025
Start date: Ideally Monday, 15th December 2025
Contract and hours: Fixed term contract until 31st July 2026. Full time. We offer flexible hours with 9:30-4 as core hours. A full working week is 37.5 hours.

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 all key stakeholders: schools, pupils and volunteer tutors; regularly attending weekly tutoring sessions; leading on reviewing and improving programme delivery, using data to reliably assess programme performance.
• Responsible for overseeing the quality of tutoring, engaging in quality assurance processes, and providing feedback to volunteer tutors to ensure effective and impactful delivery. Provide regular check-ins with tutors to ensure ample support and guidance is given to provide targeted tuition to pupils.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders in partner schools, including members of the Senior Leadership Team and subject teachers. Maintain clear and timely communication with relevant school staff, offering regular check-ins with key school stakeholders, and contribute to impact reporting to schools. Supporting the Programme Manager with strategies to retain and sustain school partnerships.
• Update and accurately maintain Action Tutoring’s database, including collecting timely data for monitoring and evaluation purposes, such as attendance records, baseline and interim assessments and pupil surveys. Reporting regularly on key performance indicators to key stakeholders and using them to enhance programme delivery. Work with the Programme Manager on business development, approaching new schools that might be interested in working with Action Tutoring.
• Proactively report to the Programme Manager on the details of Action Tutoring’s operations in their partner schools.

Person specification 
Qualification criteria:

• The right to work in the UK.
• Driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes.

We are looking for some of the following attributes, though you might be more experienced in some areas than others:
 
Being the sole representative for a partner school, you will need to use your ability to work independently and with initiative, often organising your own time to meet deadlines. You’ll also need to have a strong aptitude for developing relationships with a range of stakeholders ensuring you uphold high standards of communication and adapt your style for different audiences. The nature of this role will also require you to demonstrate adaptability, resilience and the ability to cope with some uncertainty. 

This position would suit you if you’re looking to develop your experience in the education or charity sectors. Existing experience of working with young people and/or project management in a charity or education setting would be an asset. As a charity that values and celebrates people's diversity and champions opportunities for all young people, we are keen to receive applications from people who have experienced disadvantage and from those who are of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. The role would be best suited if you are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as, committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children.

You will be likely be more successful in this role if you have: 

• Experience of working with young people and/or project management. 
• Evidence of an interest in education and/or the third sector

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 56,000 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 a high-calibre candidate 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 Centre Leader at one of our IntoUniversity centres in Nottingham. You will have responsibility for running your IntoUniversity centre, including managing your team, planning and delivering the programme, liaising with external stakeholders and meeting  IntoUniversity’s targets for delivery.

A substantial element of this role is delivering our education programme to children and young people aged 7-18, so you will need to have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for working with young people, including leading a class of 30 from the front, working with small teams of children and providing one-to-one support.

The role at a glance

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Application deadline - 9am Wednesday 29th October 2025

Interview day (in-person) - Wednesday 5th November 2025

Start date: As soon as possible, to be agreed directly with the candidate

Working hours
Mon and Thurs: 09:30-18:00
Tues, Weds, Fri: 09:00-17:30

(Some additional weekend & unsocial hours will be required)

Centre Leaders 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

Location

IntoUniversity Nottingham East

The role requires intermittent travel in your region (usually within the day). Periodic travel out of the area is also required e.g. to London, this may include occasional overnight stays. 

Salary

£36,400 per annum.

Annual leave
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
• Summer working hours (finish at 1pm on Fridays for six weeks in the summer), pro-rated for staff joining after January in the same year 
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to wellbeing and legal support 
• Life Assurance scheme with Aviva 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

We are recruiting a Project Coordinator - Strategic Implementation within the Education and Workforce team at the Institute of Physics.

This position will support the Education and Workforce team in its mission to build a thriving, diverse physics teaching community and will see you working across multiple projects to help ensure that all people, no matter their background or where they live, have access to world-class physics education and training. 

What is it like working at the IOP?

The IOP is a friendly and ambitious organisation. Inclusion and diversity are central to our work and we have a ‘work anywhere’ policy to make working at the IOP as flexible as possible. Looking after our colleagues and supporting them in life and work is our priority, ensuring they can live their best lives, with competitive salaries, professional development opportunities and generous benefits.

The Role

What will I be doing?

Working for our Strategic Implementation Manager the focus will be on supporting our affiliated schools and the broader physics teaching community. These priorities could change as our work programme evolves. Initial key responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing project support and coordination for projects across the department working in tandem with the Strategic Implementation Manager.
• Contact and communications administration for our Professional Community of Teaching, including through Salesforce.
• Managing relationships with affiliated schools and supporting plans for growth.

Projects you work on may include:

• Coordinating events for teachers and other key groups. This will involve managing event bookings, liaising with event venues and event contributors, following budgets, liaising with colleagues for promotion and evaluating impact.
• Sending out regular newsletters to teachers. Working with the Managers this will require maintenance of mailing lists and the distribution of electronic newsletters.
• Collating data from our communities, including from surveys and forum discussions.
• Supporting the coordination of the IOP Teacher Awards scheme.

Who will I work with?

You will be line managed by the Strategic Implementation Manager and support the Manager Education Community in the delivery of their projects. 

Ideally, we hope you’ll apply if your skills include:

Essential Criteria

• Communication – ability to express information clearly and effectively in written and oral form, Strong customer care skills, writing and editing engaging copy, web pages, social media
• Organisational and planning – ability to work with minimum supervision, prioritise workload, high attention to detail, handle multiple tasks ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Team player – the ability to work co-operatively with others to achieve common goals

Nice to have

• Event management experience
• Website maintenance experience
• Experience using customer relationship management software, such as Salesforce.

Application

Alongside your CV, please ensure you include a cover letter stating how you meet the person specification. 

The Institute of Physics is an open and inclusive organisation that welcomes and celebrates diversity. We know that not every candidate fits into a neat little box, and that's okay!

So, even if your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified but you believe you’d bring passion, creativity, and a willingness to learn, we’d love to learn more about you! 

How will I be working?

The Institute of Physics is an inclusive employer and our people are at the heart of our approach to delivery. Following the impact of COVID-19, we have developed a new, innovative and exciting trust-based model of flexible working called How We Work. This empowers our staff to choose both individually and as a team how, when and where they work to deliver the goals of the organisation, acknowledging that there will be occasions where in-person meetings, collaborations and events will help generate greater impact. The How We Work initiative is based on the principles of collaboration, trust, flexibility and agility. You will be allocated a ‘base’ office which can also be a chosen place of work. 

To apply for this role please click the link below, best of luck with your application!

We recognise personal unique characteristics, should you require any reasonable adjustments to support you in your application and/or throughout the recruitment process please do not hesitate to reach out to us for support.

The Institute of Physics is an open and inclusive organisation that welcomes and celebrates diversity.

The main goal of this project is to get more people volunteering in local health services and community groups across West Essex and to make sure those volunteer roles stick around. This is a great chance to build on the huge community spirit and increase in health and care volunteering we saw during the pandemic.

What You'll Do:

• You'll help coordinate and run the project day-to-day in West Essex, working with the voluntary sector and NHS voluntary services.
• You'll be a key person who talks to and connects with different groups in the community, especially those who haven't volunteered much before.
• Your work will focus on supporting and growing the number of volunteers.

Who We're Looking For:

• Someone with experience in managing projects or working with the public (this could be in health, social care, or with charities/community groups).
• Someone who is good at engaging with a diverse range of people.

About the Team:

This role is part of a larger Volunteering for Health team that works across the wider area (Herts & West Essex). You will be supported by a Programme Lead and work alongside other Programme Coordinators based in different towns like Hertford, Hatfield, and Watford.

This programme is funded by the NHS until June 2027.