Engagement and Growth Officer

Engagement and Growth Officer

Reports to: Project Manager and Board of Trustees

Location: South Wales (hybrid; regular travel required)

Salary: £30,000 full-time subject to funding

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 30 October 2026

First-round online interviews: First week of November 2026

Start date: 21 November 2026

About The Mullany Fund

The Mullany Fund (TMF) is an award-winning South Wales charity improving social mobility through education. Our bilingual e-mentoring programme helps disadvantaged 14–19-year-olds progress towards higher education in STEM related subjects, STEM apprenticeships and meaningful STEM careers.

The role

We are seeking a persuasive, well-connected education professional to increase school participation in TMF’s e-mentoring programme and attract Wales-based STEM businesses to provide work-experience placements, sponsorship and wider support. The postholder will also build partnerships with universities and funders.

To succeed, you must have a current, practical understanding of how secondary schools operate, including their pressures, decision-making structures, calendars and competing priorities. You must also understand schools’ current responsibilities for providing work-related learning and work-experience opportunities to students, and be able to show how TMF can support those responsibilities. A central challenge will be securing teachers’ attention and commitment. You will need the credibility and persistence to identify the right school contacts, overcome limited staff capacity, persuade teachers of the programme’s value, and support them to encourage suitable students to enrol and remain engaged.

Key responsibilities

• Build productive relationships with school leaders, teachers, careers staff and other key contacts.
• Present a clear case for TMF that reflects schools’ current work-experience and work-related learning requirements.
• Understand each school’s timetable, priorities and constraints, and adapt recruitment activity accordingly.
• Equip and motivate teachers to identify, persuade and support students to join our e-mentoring programme.
• Deliver engaging school presentations and follow up consistently to convert interest into participation.
• Identify, approach and secure Wales-based STEM businesses as partners, persuading them to provide high-quality work-experience placements, sponsorship and other opportunities for mentees.
• Support funding applications, impact reporting, stakeholder communications and programme development.
• Represent TMF at meetings and events, maintain accurate engagement records, and provide monthly progress updates to Trustees.
• Uphold safeguarding, child-protection and equality responsibilities.

About you

Essential:

• Recent experience of working in, teaching in or closely supporting secondary schools.
• Up-to-date knowledge of how schools fulfil their responsibilities for work experience and work-related learning.
• A practical understanding of school structures, annual cycles, workload pressures and the barriers to engaging teachers and students.
• A strong record of influencing busy stakeholders and turning initial interest into sustained participation.
• Confident presentation, relationship-building and written communication skills.
• Experience of coordinating projects or programmes and maintaining accurate records.
• Five or more GCSEs, including Maths and English; A levels or equivalent; and a university degree.
• Strong digital skills,
• A full driving licence, access to a vehicle, and the ability to travel regularly across South Wales.
• Willingness to undertake an enhanced DBS check.
• Understanding of the barriers faced by young people experiencing educational disadvantage.

Desirable:

• Experience of widening participation, STEM education, charities or youth programmes.
• Ability to speak Welsh.

What success looks like

• More schools actively promote TMF and recruit suitable students.
• Teachers understand the programme, trust TMF and support students to participate.
• School interest is converted into sustained student engagement.
• New partnerships with Wales-based STEM businesses deliver work-experience placements, sponsorship and other opportunities for mentees, while university and funding relationships support TMF’s growth.

Our commitment

TMF is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from people with lived experience of educational disadvantage.

How to apply

Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining your motivation and suitability for the role by 30 October 2026.

Swyddog Ymgynghorol a Thwf

Yn atebol i: Rheolwr y Prosiect a Bwrdd yr Henoed

Lleoliad: De Cymru (gweithio hybrid; bydd angen teithio'n rheolaidd)

Cyflog: £30,000 llawn amser ,, yn gweithio ar y we

Oriau: Llawn amser, 37.5 yr awr wythnos

Dyddiad cau: 30 Hydref 2026

Casgliadau ar-lein rownd gyntaf: Wythnos gyntaf Tachwedd 2026

Dyddiad dechrau: 21 Tachwedd 2026

Cronfa Mullany

Mae Cronfa Mullany (TMF) yn elusen arobryn yn Ne Cymru sy'n gwella symudedd cymdeithasol drwy addysg. Mae ein rhaglen e-fentora dátheangach yn helpu pobl ifanc 14–19 oed i symud ymlaen yn addysg uwch mewn pynciau STEM, prentisiaethau STEM a darllen STEM her.

Y rôl

We find am weithiwr addysg grefyddol perswadiol â rhwydwaith cryf i arweinwyr ysgolion yn rhaglen e-fentora TMF ac i gefnogi busnesau STEM yng Nghymru ar gyfer lleoliadau profiad gwaith, cymorth a hyfforddiant cwricwlwm. Bydd deiliad y swydd hefyd yn meithrin arweinwyr â phrifysgolion a trefnwyr. Llwyddiannus, mae'n rhaid i ysgolion uwchradd yn gweithredu ysgolion uwchradd yn gweithredu, gan gynnwys eu pwysau, eu gwneud gemau, eu calendrau a'u cystadlu sy'n cystadlu â'i gilydd. Rhaid i chi hefyd ddeall cymwysterau i ysgolion o ran darparu dysgu sy'n gysylltiedig â gwaith a profiad gwaith i fyfyrwyr, a gallu dangos sut y gall TMF eu helpu i ddatblygu'r rhain. Un o brif heriau'r swydd fydd yn ennyn sylw ac athrawon. Bydd angen yr hygrededd a'r dyfalbarhad i nodi'r cysylltiadau cywir ysgolion, rhaglenni ar gapasiti staff, perswadio athrawon o werth y rhaglen, a'u cynorthwyo i annog disgyblion i gofrestru ar gyfer cymryd rhan.

Prif gyfrolau

• Feithrinfa ddyfarniad ar lefel ysgolion, athrawon, staff ddyfarniadau a rheolwyr eraill.
• Cyflwyno achos clir dros TMF sy’n adlewyrchu gofynion presennol ysgolion oran profiad gwaith a dysgu sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith
• Deall trefn, arferion a gweithgareddau pob ysgol, ac adfywio gweithgaredd yn unol â hynny.
• Galluogi ac athrawon i nodi, perswadio a rheolwyr i ymuno â'n rhaglen e-fentora.
• cynnydd mewn ysgolion a mynd ar drywydd yn cynyddu er mwyn ei droi'n athrofa.
• Nodi, cysylltu â a sicrwydd busnesau STEM yng Nghymru, gan eu perswadio i ymweld â lleoliadau profiad o ansawdd uchel, grantiau a rhaglenni eraill i'r rhai sy'n cael eu mentora.
• Cefnogir ceisiadau, canlyniadau canlyniadau, cyfathrebu â rhaglen y rhaglen.
• Cynrychioli TMF mewn cyfarfodydd a digwyddiadau, cadw cofnodion cofnodion cywir, a harchebu misol i'r cofnodion.
• Cynnal diogelu diogelu, amddiffyn plant a chydraddoldeb.

Amdanoch chi

Hanfodol:

• Profiad diweddar o ysgolion uwchradd, colur neu gefnogaeth.
• Gwybodaeth gyfredol am ysgolion yn awdurdod lleol o brofiad gwaith a dysgu sy'n gysylltiedig â gwaith.
• Dealltwriaeth gynyddol o ysgolion, cylchoedd blynyddol, llwyth gwaith a'r rhifau i athrawon ac athrawon.
• Hanes cryf o brysurdeb prysur a gychwynnodd yn flynyddol.
• Sgiliau llunio, meithrin adroddiadau ysgrifenedig.
• Profiad o brosiectau neu gofnodion a chadw cofnodion cywir.
• Pwmp TGAU neu fwy, gan gynnwys Mathemateg a Saesneg; Safon Uwch neu cyfatebol; a gradd.
• Sgiliau digidol cryf.
• defnyddio cerdyn lawnt, mynediad at gerbyd, a'r gallu i deithio'n drefnus De Cymru.
• Parodrwydd i gael gwiriad DBS manylach.
• Dealltwriaeth o'r ifanc sy'n profi addysg.

Dymunol:

• Profiad o gynyddu cyfranogiad, addysg STEM, llwyddiant neu bartneriaeth ieuenctid.
• Gallu siarad Cymraeg.

Sut olwg sydd ar lwyddiannus

• Mae mwy o ysgolion yn hyrwyddo TMF yn llwyddiannus.
• Mae athrawon yn deall y rhaglen, yn ddewis TMF ac yn cefnogi cymryd rhan.
• Mae ysgolion yn troi'n llwyddiannus gan fyfyrwyr.
• Mae prosiectau newydd â busnesau STEM yng Nghymru yn darparu lleoliadau profiad gwaith, cefnogi a rhaglenni eraill i'r rhai sy'n cael eu mentora, tra bo'r gwaith â'r prif amcanion ysgol a menter yn cefnogi twf TMF.

Ein hymrwymiad

Mae TMF wedi ymweld â sefyllfaoedd o'r fath ac yn croesawu ceisiadau gan bobl o bob cefndir, yn benodol i bobl sydd â phrofiad o addysg grefyddol.

Sut i wneud cais

Anfonwch eich CV a llythyr eglurhaol sy’n esbonio eich cymhelliant a’ch addasrwyddar gyfer y rôl erbyn 30 Hydref 2026.