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£32,000 - £34,000 per year
Full-time
Permanent
Job description

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.

Our benefits include:

  • Excellent pension scheme (up to 12% employer contribution)
  • Private medical insurance, life assurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan (via salary sacrifice), eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccinations, long service awards, employee assistance programme
  • Floating bank holidays (choose where to take your bank holidays throughout the year)
  • Generous annual leave (starting at 25 days)
  • Flexible working arrangements

The Role

What will I be doing?

As Project Officer, Workforce Partnerships, you’ll be part of the Education and Workforce team, supporting our mission to build a strong, diverse physics workforce for the future. Your work will help leverage our evidence and insights to identify and develop institutional partnerships through which we can deliver sustainable impact against our Skills priorities.

You will also take a lead in celebrating the crucial role of physics-related technical talent in the workplace through operational administration of our flagship Technical Skills Awards.

You’ll support the delivery of projects, working closely with colleagues across the organisation, IOP Members and external stakeholders.

Projects and activities you may work on include:

  • Supporting stakeholder mapping and engagement activities to drive impactful new partnership development.
  • Helping to design and deliver workshops, events and engagement campaigns. As an example, this could include supporting the development of case studies, and digital and print collateral, to raise the awareness and visibility of physics-related routes to employment.
  • Leading the annual cycle of delivery, administration and operation of the IOP’s Technical Skills Awards.
  • Supporting the management of project processes including bids, contracts, MOUs, budgets and reporting.

Who will I work with?

  • Manager, Workforce Partnerships (line manager)
  • Colleagues across the Education and Workforce team, as well as others in Policy and Public Affairs, Science, Business and Data Insights, Communications and Marketing, Public Engagement, and Membership and Inclusion.
  • Members, employers and other key stakeholders in the education, social mobility, training and skills landscape.

What skills and experience do I need?

Essential:

  • Project management, programme and events administration, with the ability to effectively manage multiple workstreams.
  • Experience writing and maintaining accurate documentation, including reporting for senior boards and committees.
  • Experience of developing partnerships with expertise in stakeholder management and engagement to drive organisational profile and influence.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to tailor communications to a diverse range of audiences through face to face, written and digital methods.

Nice to have:

  • Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration, supporting alignment across diverse teams and disciplines
  • Knowledge of, or willingness to build, domain knowledge of skills stakeholder audiences

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!

Application

Please include a cover letter stating how you meet the person specification and a copy of your CV. 

Why should I want to work at the IOP?

The IOP is the professional body and learned society for physics in the UK and Ireland - we seek to raise public awareness and understanding of physics and support the development of a diverse and inclusive physics community. As a charity, we’re here to ensure that physics delivers on its exceptional potential to benefit society. There’s never been a more exciting time to join the IOP - watch our film to find out more about our work. 

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

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.

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Institute of Physics View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 101 - 500

We strive to make physics accessible to people from all backgrounds.

Posted on: 27 October 2025
Closing date: 10 November 2025 at 23:30
Tags: Administration, Advice / Information, Communications, Advocacy, Business Development, Operations, Engagement / Outreach, Insights, Procurement, Qualitative, Quantitative, Strategy, Events / Activities

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