This exciting opportunity will enable the successful candidate to be part of shaping a new stage in our delivery. Online, e-learning and face to face delivery in groups and on an individual basis make this a wide-ranging role in a progressive, adaptable and flexible team.

The successful candidate will have relevant experience of facilitating and delivering a wide range of training programmes including delivering to children and young people, community groups and professionals in both groups and on a 1:1 basis. They will be required to have an understanding of the nature and impact of sexual violence and experience of working in this sector.

The successful candidate will have relevant experience of facilitating and delivering a wide range of training programmes including delivering to children and young people, community groups and professionals in both groups and on a 1:1 basis. They will be required to have an understanding of the nature and impact of sexual violence and experience of working in this sector.

The successful candidate should be able to:

• Develop and deliver training focused on providing a range of specialist sexual violence awareness and interventions in both face to face and online settings.
• Deliver our educational resource Purple Leaf Education, within educational settings to a range of children and young people of various ages in both groups and on a 1:1 basis.
• Consider and respond to child safeguarding issues when engaging with all children and young people.
• Contribute towards service development.

The post is based in Worcestershire but the successful applicant must have the ability to travel throughout Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire.

This post is being offered on a full-time 37.5 hours per week contract, but part-time hours may be considered for the right candidate.

Closing date for applications is Thursday 2nd July and an online assessment centre will be held on Friday 10th July.

About the Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund is a bold new attempt to put early intervention at the heart of efforts to tackle youth offending.

Over the last few years, evidence suggests that growing numbers of children and young people have been affected by violent crime. More children have been found carrying knives and a growing number have been recorded as victims. We believe that each individual child is an important member of our community and society has a duty to protect them.

The Youth Endowment Fund is a charity with a £200m endowment and a mission that matters. Founded by youth charity Impetus and its partners the Early Intervention Foundation and the Social Investment Business, we exist to prevent children and young people from getting caught up in violent crime.

To succeed we must do two things brilliant. Firstly we must: ‘Find what works’. We have a team of expert grant makers and researchers funding and evaluating programmes to find out what works. By itself though this won’t matter. We have to be just as good at: ‘Make change happen’. To make change happen, we will have to take people with us. This is where you come in. We won’t change anything unless we can build a powerful coalition of schools, teachers, heads, unions, and more who want to see knife crime reduced. It is your job to build this coalition and make sure that change happens.

Key responsibilities

Most fundamentally, you lead on ensuring that the Youth Endowment Fund successfully makes change happen in the world of education. You will do this by:

• Building fantastic external relationships and coalitions: If we are to have a chance at changing practices in the world of education, we will need to build deep and trusting relationships. Every time we run a themed round of funding (from exclusions to mentoring) we will want to build a coalition of engaged supporters in the education sector who care about our area of focus. It will be your job to build and strengthen these relationships.
• Overseeing the change process when the theme is linked to education: Twice a year we will launch a change process made up of a number of stages. It is your job to ensure this process is followed and that all parts of the organisation play their part:
  • Selecting an area of focus for a grant round, e.g., exclusions, alternative provision, mentoring.
  • Preparing for a grant round, which includes building coalitions, engaging young people, summarising the existing evidence, mapping power and influence.
  • Delivering the grant round, which includes selecting high quality applications, supporting and improving them and selecting the best.
  • Evaluating the outcomes, which includes finding what works and why it works.
  • Delivering impact, which includes scaling up great charities, spreading great practice and pushing for system changes.
• Identifying and delivering the best way to achieve change: In each theme-based grant round related to education it is your job to ensure we find the best way to achieve change. You decide whether there are particular practices we should look to spread or systems that we should look to change. In all of this you will be looking to work with the coalitions that you have built.
• As a senior member of staff in the organisation you also:
  • Build a culture where it is natural to perform well and support colleagues brilliantly.
  • Contribute to setting the strategy, delivering results and building and modelling the culture that we need to succeed.

About You

You are this sort of person:

• You make change happen. You have experience of finding ways to make things happen. You especially excel in situations of ambiguity where there are not clear rules to follow, previous patterns to copy or clear evidence of what will work.
• You win people over. People tend to warm to you and respect you. You have built good relationships with very senior people and with very junior people. You are good at chairing meetings, connecting people and having good introductory meetings. You are comfortable talking to a government minister, a youth worker, a company CEO, a teacher and a 15 year old student. Listening to people from all backgrounds matters to you.
• You understand teachers and the education sector: You really understand how teachers and heads think – perhaps because you were a teacher. You might ideally have some experience working with the teachers’ unions, Ofsted and other key organisations that influence teaching. (It is a huge unexpected bonus if you also understand either policing, the youth sector or children’s social care).
• You learn fast but remain humble. You are very quick at getting your head around things. You like learning. You are very good at synthesising information. You know how much you don't know. You know that you can learn more. You know that it's easy to assume you know when you don't. You care more that good things happen than who gets the credit. You are a great and supportive team player.
• You write very well: You write clearly without using jargon. You are good at being brief. Your writing is persuasive when you want it to be.
• You are both organised and flexible: You are a very organised person who can juggle multiple things while always being clear what the overall goal is. People comment on how well organised you are. But you are also highly flexible. When the situation changes, you are happy to change your plan.
• You are fascinated and thoughtful on how change happens. You have the cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence and experience to find the ways to make change happen when there are multiple stakeholders. You understand why people find change difficult. You come alive talking about how people make decisions and why they do the things they do. You are interested in behavioural change.
• You are an excellent strategic thinker. People say that you are good at seeing the big picture. You have experience of wrestling into place a strategy for a project or organisation. You are good at thinking logically but you are also creative. You have ideas but are happy rejecting a lot of them. You like seeing things from different points of view.
• You don't want your days to pass without making a difference. You want to play a significant part in reducing the level of youth violence.
• You understand young people. You understand what the lives of vulnerable young people can be like and you understand some of the organisations that work with them, ideally through first-hand experience.
• You are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

You must have this sort of experience

You have …

• Built Partnerships or Coalitions: You have significant experience in building partnerships or coalitions. You can show how these have been effective in delivering change.
• Worked in the education sector: You have worked in the education sector, this might be as a teacher but doesn’t have to be.

While it is not a criteria, we are especially interested to hear from applicants who have lived experience of youth violence.

It is also important to us that the people we hire do not discriminate. We believe in being inclusive and giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, sex, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, race, sexual orientation, transgender status or social economic background.

To Apply

Apply by 9am 12th July, 2020.

You should also include the contact details of two referees, one of whom must be your current or most recent employer. Referees will only be approached with your express permission. You will also be required to provide proof of your eligibility to work in the UK. As part of our commitment to flexible working we will consider a range of options for the successful applicant. All options can be discussed at interview stage.

Interview week commencing 27th July

Panel interview week commencing 3rd August

Due to the large number of applications we receive, it is not possible to write to you should you not be shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.

Your personal data will be shared for the purposes of the recruitment exercise. This includes our HR team, interviewers (who may include other partners in the project and independent advisors), relevant team managers and our IT service provider if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles. We do not share your data with other third parties, unless your application for employment is successful and we make you an offer of employment. We will then share your data with former employers to obtain references for you. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area.

Based at London Bridge, with UK-wide travel

Would you like the opportunity to work for the Royal College of Occupational Therapists – the professional body representing over 33,000 occupational therapists across the UK? Are you passionate about the development of the next generation of occupational therapists and how they go forward into the workplace to transform the lives of the individuals, groups and communities they work with? If so, you may be the person we’re looking for to join the Education and Research Department.

The Royal College of Occupational Therapists is seeking to recruit a Manager to lead the Pre-registration Education Team. In the context of a complex and ever-changing pre-registration educational landscape, the purpose of this role is to lead, develop and manage RCOT’s activities related to the delivery of pre-registration occupational therapy education in the UK. In order to achieve this it will be essential for the successful candidate to remain well-informed about relevant policy, legislation and practice across the four nations of the UK and the impact it has on preregistration education and learners. The role will be required to work collaboratively with internal and external partners to protect and promote the interests of our members and the profession, wherever possible.

In addition to overseeing RCOT’s pre-registration accreditation procedures to assure and enhance the quality of pre-registration occupational therapy education, you will manage a team of accreditation and student liaison officers. As a strong advocate for the profession, pre-registration learners and new entrants to the workforce, you will represent the Royal College across all four UK countries and at high-level Boards and meetings, which will involve regular travel to destinations across the UK, with overnight stays.

To be successful in this role, you will be or have:

• An HCPC registered/registerable occupational therapist with extensive experience of working at a senior level in pre-registration occupational therapy education within an education provider context.

• Robust understanding of all aspects of pre-registration occupational therapy education, with sound knowledge and understanding of the role and value of educational quality monitoring and enhancement processes.

• Excellent communication, negotiation, influencing and project management skills.

• A sound understanding of current education and health and social care policy and a working knowledge of current issues in higher education across the UK.

• The proven ability to work autonomously and as a positively engaged team member, and to effectively supervise, manage and support staff to achieve business objectives.

In the current context of COVID19, all staff are presently working from home which may have implications for the role going forward.

If you are interested in this opportunity and wish to discuss it further, including the possibility of flexible working arrangements, please contact Dr Jo Watson, Assistant Director – Education and Research via our website.

If you are interested in applying, please download the role description from our website and then forward your CV and a covering letter, explaining why you are interested in and suitable for this role, to Angela Conway, HR Advisor by email.

Interviews will be held Friday 24th July 2020

We have an exciting, new opportunity for a highly efficient Buildings & Finance Administrator to join our small, inclusive and highly successful professional team.

The successful candidate can expect a thorough induction, supportive colleagues, a diverse and interesting workload and, a range of favourable employment benefits including; pension scheme, annual leave and Employee Assistance Programme support. 

Applicants must have excellent communication skills, a sound understanding of finance and finance systems, be thorough and accurate, be able to multi-task, remain calm under pressure and add positively to our team dynamics. In addition it is vital to possess a range of administrative skills including good numeracy, data processing/comprehension and IT skills.

Good interpersonal and teamwork skills are essential, as are effective use of emotional intelligence and the ability to exercise tact, diplomacy and sensitivity. 

For this varied role, ideally you will have experience of processing grant claims and invoices, an understanding of the education or public sector and strong general administration skills. However, training will be given to the right candidate.

Closing date for applications is:  Thursday, 16 July 2020

Interviews and assessment: Owing to current social distancing restrictions, shortlisted candidates will be notified of selection dates/times after 20 July 2020.

Programme Co-ordinator – Education Charity (London)
The Dock, Wapping Lane, London (with regular travel to our partner schools in London)

About Us

Action Tutoring is an education charity that supports pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in school.

In the UK today, young people facing socio-economic disadvantage are less likely to achieve the grades they need to progress in life. This isn’t because they are any less able – it’s because they have less access to tools to support them to realise their potential.

We help to level the playing field by working in partnership with schools to deliver weekly tutoring in English or Maths, to pupils who need it the most.

We’re now looking for a Programme Co-ordinator to join us on a fixed-term contract until the 31st July 2021. 

The Benefits

- Salary of £23,000 per annum
- Travel expenses
- Flexible working
- Workplace pension
- 33 days’ holiday per annum including Bank Holidays
- Team socials
- Recognition schemes to celebrate staff who go above and beyond

If you are a confident communicator and work well on your own initiative, this is a brilliant opportunity to gain experience with a charity that’s supporting the UK’s most disadvantaged young people.

As an education charity, we understand the importance of providing learning and development opportunities for our staff. You’ll receive a comprehensive induction and full training and will have the chance to broaden your areas of responsibility as you grow alongside the organisation.

Our vision is a world in which no child’s life chances are limited by their socio-economic background. If you share our values and want to make a real difference to young people’s lives, we want to hear from you.

Your Role

As a Programme Co-ordinator, you’ll oversee the delivery of our tutoring programme in partner schools in London.

Overseeing a caseload of 6 – 7 schools, you will have the chance to increase your expertise in a number of areas, including stakeholder management (such as the senior leadership teams in schools), recruiting volunteers and the education sector.

Some of your duties will involve:

- Visiting schools and building positive relationships
- Ensuring our volunteer tutors are delivering a high-quality service to pupils
- Overseeing our volunteer tutor sign-up process
- Assigning tutors to suitable pupils
- Working with colleagues to approach new schools and tell them about the programme

About You

To join us as a Programme Co-ordinator, you’ll need:

- The ability to work independently and use your initiative in a variety of situations
- A commitment to ensuring young people from all backgrounds reach a meaningful level of academic attainment
- The ability to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders

Ideally, you will have experience of working with young people and/or project management, but this isn’t essential.

Other organisations may call this role Junior Project Co-ordinator, Education Programme Assistant, Project Assistant, Education Project Assistant, Charity Programme Co-ordinator, Charity Project Co-ordinator, or Charity Service Co-ordinator.

The closing date for applications is the 17th July 2020. Online interviews will take place the week commencing the 20th July 2020. 

This is a full-time role, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday. 

Webrecruit and Action Tutoring are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing organisation as a Youth Worker and Coach and be part of the Latin American Youth Forum (LAYF). Aimed at 13-19 year olds, LAYF supports young Latin Americans and Spanish/Portuguese speakers more widely to access education, training and employment, increase youth engagement, boost social and emotional capabilities and experience increased social cohesion. This project is delivered in partnership with Building Young Brixton (BYB), a consortium co-led by 9 Lambeth-based organisations, providing a broad and diverse offer for young people in the borough. 

LAYF targets vulnerable young people (including NEETs and those who are working in low income positions) and consists of four main activities: (1) Creative ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Classes, (2) Skills/creative arts workshops, (3) In-depth career/education mentoring, and (4) engagement with BYB organisations through referrals and participation to joint activities/events. The Youth Worker will develop a dynamic activity programme and a consistent mentoring service, while working closely with the LAYF ESOL Teacher delivering ESOL classes and with the Family Support Worker supporting secondary school admission. LAYF has a bottom-up approach, and all activities are co-created with the young people. 

The Youth Worker and Coach will be an excellent communicator in both English and Spanish (Portuguese desirable), who is passionate about social justice and will co-create an exciting programme of activities for the young people of LAYF. The Youth Worker will be able to handle service delivery with monitoring impact and communication (both outreach and social media) while ensuring the safety of the young people during face-to-face and remote activities. 

Due to COVID-19, we are currently delivering activities remotely and planning to go back to face-to-face delivery once it's safe to do so.

The deadline to apply is midnight of Sunday 12th July 2020. For more information on this role and how to apply, please visit the IRMO website as directed below. 

Plan International UK is seeking an experienced external evaluator to lead the Endline Evaluation of DFID’s Girls’ Education Challenge programme in Ghana: Making Ghanaian Girls Great! or MGCubed.

MGCubed is a 4 year, DFID-funded Girls' Education Challenge project supporting marginalised girls and children with disabilities in two regions of Ghana. Using solar-powered and satellite-enabled distance learning infrastructure to deliver interactive learning sessions to students, teachers, communities and government officials, MGCubed aims to improve learning outcomes for marginalised pupils, support pupils to transition successfully through school, and contribute to sustained improvements in the Ghanaian education system.

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, MGCubed has been working with the Ministry of Education on the delivery of a national distance learning programme, supporting the production and broadcast of televised educational content across the country via a dedicated television channel.

Plan International UK is recruiting an external evaluator to lead a mixed-methods, gender sensitive and participatory Endline Evaluation, with a focus on MGCubed’s three core outcomes of learning, transition and sustainability. We welcome flexible and creative approaches that assess the impact of the programme, generate meaningful learning and include the voices of girls, communities and other key stakeholders while responding to the challenges of the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Further requirements can be found in the ToR.

Plan International UK invites bids from Evaluation Teams with the experience and skills described in the ToR to submit the following application documents no later than 17.00 (UK time) on Monday 3rd August 2020. Please note the deadline has been extended. Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.

Applications should include:
• A technical proposal that includes the sampling strategy, intended methodological approach, proposed timeframe and detailed workplan;
• A financial proposal that covers all consultancy related costs (enumerator team, data collection, data entry, data analysis, administrative costs etc.) in PDF format;
• A CV of each of the evaluation team members detailing relevant skills and experience of no more than 3 pages;
• Two samples of relevant previous work;
• Two contactable referees.
 

Care about social mobility? Are you our next London Programme Officer?

We are working towards a day where no young person’s background determines their future. As an award-winning, fast-growing social enterprise our mission is to support young people from disadvantaged communities to identify and fulfil their potential. Working in partnership with schools, we deliver academic tutoring/coaching programmes that improve a pupil’s grades, confidence and independence so they can win places at top universities and high level apprenticeships.

Having turned six years old in February 2020, we’re at an exciting stage of growth and have ambitious plans to scale our impact and reach. Currently working across London, West Midlands, South West, we are looking to thoughtfully scale our aca- demic programmes into hard to reach deprivation areas. Over the next 3 years, we are aiming to support over 10,000 young people.

Role Description

London was our first hub. Since 2014, we have developed partnerships and relationships across the region with schools, universities and collaborators. We are now looking for a passionate new addition to join the team. We need an outgoing self-motivated person to enhance our work in the London region (including Reading and surrounding areas), making it a vibrant and exciting hub that delivers real social impact. At the forefront of the organisation, you will be responsible for maintaining partnerships, supporting tutors/coaches and delivering our programmes from volunteer recruitment all the way through to evaluation. This is an “in-at-the-deep-end” role and you will flourish in a small dynamic team with real influence. 

Key Areas of Responsibility

Contributing to the development of the London region:

• Generating new school leads and securing programmes
• Supporting a strong and supportive network of schools, Multi-Academy Trusts • (MATs), universities, corporate partners and others
• Ensuring retention of volunteer coaches (meeting minimum targets set • termly)
• Maintaining relationships with coaches, pupils and teachers

Create a thriving community of social mobility advocates among university students and young professionals:

• Meeting recruitment targets for tutors/coaches across London each term.
• Training volunteers in tutoring/coaching and our pedagogy.

Oversee multiple in-school and online programmes (university student led and peer to peer) across London:

• Setting timelines for programme start and finish dates
• Communicating with school staff weekly to provide feedback after sessions
• Visiting schools to oversee quality.
• Managing and running online sessions.

Programme Design and Delivery:

• Contributing to the design of current workshops and creating new workshops when needed
• Running in-school or digital workshops for groups of pupils (KS3-5) and facilitating university trips at the start and end of our programmes
• Line managing a team of Head Coaches:
• Delivering training for Head Coaches in London
• Holding 1-1 appraisals to monitor performance and set actions

Embodying our values (humility, high expectations, service, responsibility and resilience) and demonstrating commitment to our mission.

Person Specification

Essential characteristics and experience

• Passion for social mobility: we have big aims and are looking for those who share our desire to make education fairer in the UK so a person’s background does not determine their future.
• Relationship building and facilitating: this a public-facing role so you will love delivering workshops to groups as well as communicating our mission to a wide range of stakeholders (businesses, senior members of MATs, universities etc.
• Organisation: working in a fast paced young organisation you’ll be able to work between different programmes and workstreams.
• Independance: this role requires you to work independently/alone from time to time in the office and/or from home
• Resourcefulness: we’re a small, dedicated team - you must be a self-starter prepared for practical roles with lots of responsibility. A willingness to stay solution-focused with last minute challenges is a must!
• Young People: experience in a school or youth organisation/working with young people.
• Flexibility: the role will occasionally involve working evenings & weekends

Desirable knowledge/experience

• Experience working with young people in a school or youth work setting. • Experience recruiting volunteers
• Experience measuring and evaluating impact
• Knowledge of programme design, pedagogy or tutoring/coaching.
• Knowledge of UK schools and UK university sector.

Working as part of the TLG centre team in Reading, the Classroom Teacher post provides a unique opportunity to support young people experiencing educational crisis.

TLG Reading is a centre for alternative education provision delivering tailored social and educational interventions for young people. The Lead Teacher will play an integral role in enabling young people to get their lives back on track, through delivering innovative programmes, and working with the Centre Manager to ensure that the education centre achieves success.

The role involves assistance with the planning and delivery of lessons, leading sessions as timetabled and providing one-to-one support as appropriate to bring excellence to the young people’s learning experience.  The individual will also act as a link between TLG’s students, their families and the church community.

We are looking to recruit an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful applicant will be required to undertake a DBS check. 

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The date of initial video interviews and final interviews is to be confirmed.

Lead our work helping education organisations to evaluate their impact, learn from it, and prioritise what is working best to improve outcomes for children and young people

The organisation

ImpactEd is an award-winning social enterprise that exists to help evaluate, understand and improve impact in education.

In our education system, we invest huge amounts of time, money and energy in different programmes and interventions to improve outcomes for pupils. Yet far too often, we don’t know what is working – and what isn’t. We exist to address this evaluation deficit, helping schools and those working with them to better understand what is working to make a difference to the lives of young people. We do this through a combination of hands-on partnership, training and consultancy, and our digital platform which makes monitoring and evaluation quicker, easier and more effective.

Since being founded in 2017, we have grown rapidly. In 2018, we won the Teach First Innovation Award; in 2019, our work was profiled by the Department for Education and we were finalists in the Education Resources Awards. As of 2020, we reach over 60,000 young people and have launched a new partnership with Big Change to support our vision to achieve system-wide change. We are a small, dedicated and growing team committed to maximising social impact: a mix of former teachers, academic researchers and software developers, our work is overseen by a Board with significant experience of social entrepreneurship, third sector leadership and educational improvement.

The opportunity

We work with both schools and other education organisations such as charities and universities (our ‘impact partners’). This role is a newly created leadership position to drive our work supporting impact partners such as CoachBright, Jamie's Farm and SOAS to assess and improve their effectiveness. The Head of Impact Partnerships will define, deliver and refine the strategy for these collaborations: managing partnerships first-hand, leading sales and business development, and ultimately ensuring that this work contributes to directly improving the life chances of young people. 

The role involves a mix of hands-on partnership management and leadership responsibilities. For example, you might work on projects such as supporting Oak National Academy to develop their evaluation strategy while delivering over 13 million online lessons during lockdown, or helping Yes Futures to assess the impact of their new approach to supporting young people’s personal development and wellbeing. At the same time, you will have overall strategic responsibility for this area of work, and contribute to organisational direction as part of our leadership team. You will lead business development and, as our partnerships continue to grow, we would be looking for you to build and train a team.

We are looking for a broad skillset to support this ambitious brief. We are open to a range of backgrounds, but real advantages would be: experience and insight into research and evaluation, especially within the UK school system; partnership management expertise; familiarity with leading people and strategy; and an entrepreneurial streak including business development experience. You would be joining a dynamic social enterprise with opportunities for significant development and progression in line with organisational growth.   

We welcome both full-time and part-time candidates: we expect that a minimum commitment of around four days per week is likely, but are happy to discuss how we might fit your working pattern. We are keen to encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates, whether by gender, ethnic group, sexual orientation or other characteristics.

To find out more about the role and the organisation, see the full job pack at tiny.cc/HIP. The application deadline is Monday 27th July at 9am. 

Award-winning success

Founded over 450 years ago in 1565 by Sir Roger Cholmeley, Highgate is one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools for pupils aged 3-18. There are currently in the region of 1,850 pupils split across our Pre-Preparatory School, Junior School and Senior School premises, in conjunction with approximately 550 teaching and support staff. We are proud to be able to claim some of the top academic results across the UK, as well as titles of Independent School of the Year 2019 and 2020, and Independent School of the Year for Social Mobility 2019. Pupils are also able to participate in over 77 co-curricular clubs as diverse as bee-keeping, medical society and robotics.

A culture of community and kindness

We are a School whose charitable ethos is an inextricable part of both staff and pupil DNA. Highgate doesn’t exist in a bubble, but is connected to, and part of, a community. We have partnerships with over 60 state Schools across 7 London boroughs, and, in 2017, Headteacher Adam Pettitt co-founded the free sixth form college, The London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham (LAET), with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as business sponsors.

Highgate is Here

In the first few weeks of the Spring 2020 lockdown, the School’s Community Partnerships and Development Offices received numerous requests for help and offers of assistance. As a result, Highgate is Here was formed, with the following key objectives in mind: 

• To co-ordinate all charity, community and partnership teaching activities across Highgate School specifically as they relate to Covid-19 in the first instance;
• To ensure that the School’s response to the Covid-19 crisis is in line with its existing strategic objectives and Aims and Ethos; 
• To maximise the School’s impact in its charitable and community activities. 

Working with us

The School is situated in one of the most attractive and sought after areas of North London, only a short journey from Central London and adjacent to Hampstead Heath. The hilltop site in Highgate Village is the historic site of the Senior School. A few hundred yards along Hampstead Lane in Bishopswood Road lie the Junior and Pre-Preparatory Schools and the extensive playing fields, adjacent to the open spaces of Kenwood and Hampstead Heath. The Northern Line underground station is a short walk away and it is four miles to Central London.

Working at Highgate offers the opportunity to be part of a vibrant and welcoming community, committed to academic excellence and the highest standards of pastoral care for its pupils. The Governors consider the development of excellence in the education offered to the pupils to be the underlying purpose of activities undertaken by all staff.

Highgate is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to this post, including checks with past employers, overseas police check if necessary and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

OUR AMBITION

Highgate School is an educational charity and an independent School, and is committed to extending educational opportunity for children in North London, through the provision of substantial means-tested bursaries, and through partnerships with over 40 state Schools to deliver top-quality STEM teaching and learning.  In 2017, Headteacher Adam Pettitt co-founded the free sixth form college, The London Academy of Excellence in Tottenham (LAET), with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club as business sponsors.

Highgate School has raised over £8m since 2012 to further these charitable aims, and Highgate is ambitious to attract significant philanthropic donations to make even more of a difference in education and society.

THE ROLE

Highgate seeks an entrepreneurially-minded Development Officer as Highgate as a Charity moves to meet the challenges and opportunities for the charity sector in 2020.

This is a strategic and operational role, offering autonomy within a close-knit team, working with thought-leaders in the education sector, in an organisation with a strong track record of success.

The Development Officer role’s main aim is to increase engagement from Highgate’s alumni and parental community, supporting Highgate’s strategic goals of engaging our alumni and extending educational opportunity at Highgate through fundraising. This will be achieved in this role through a series of important key areas, covering events, engagement, communications and fundraising.

The role will have direct responsibility for a variety of evolving projects, set within clear strategic goals:

Communications

• Working with the Development Director and Head of Alumni Relations to strategically plan the Development Office’s communications to OCs
• Implementing the communication strategy
• Overall responsibility for the development and implementation of Highgate Connect, our networking website and Mobile Application

Supporter Engagement

• Developing and implementing Highgate Connect, the School’s recently-launched networking platform, and using the platform to leverage support and engagement from its members
• Organising successful opportunities for alumni and other supporters to engage with the charity, through events and involvement of other areas of School life, such as Careers and Employability opportunities for pupils from Highgate and its partner Schools;
• Working to develop creative projects with interest and affinity groups

Enhancing Donor Experience

• Devising and implementing a strategy for donors, ensuring that giving is a positive experience and thus helping to foster a ‘culture of philanthropy’ at Highgate and securing engagement, commitment and backing for our charitable goals
• Overall responsibility for Donor Stewardship, developing monthly messages to be sent to Highgate’s supporters
• Overall responsibility for the reengagement of LYBUNTs and SYBUNTs, supporters who have given to Highgate in previous years but not yet in this financial year

Event organization, oversight and strategy

• Strategic oversight and responsibility for the majority of the Development Office’s events, such as  parent and alumni fundraising events, alumni networking events, and bespoke events, such as Annual Dinners and meetings of interest groups.
• In 2020, many of these events are likely to be online events, and this position will be responsible for the operational oversight of these, working closely with other team members to implement a coherent and engaging programme of events as the year progresses

Fundraising/Income generation

• Developing and implementing fundraising projects that reach a critical mass of potential supporters, seeking donations of up to c.£5,000 to support Highgate’s charitable ambitions, to create educational opportunities through bursaries and partnerships with state Schools. These creative projects will include, but not be limited to, crowdfunding campaigns, an alumni Telephone Fundraising campaign, fundraising events, and in due course, soliciting face-to-face gifts from own portfolio of donors;
• Working with other Development Office colleagues to develop projects to engage pupils at Highgate and in our partner schools with our philanthropic ambitions

Managerial responsibility

• The Development Officer manages the Development Assistant

Key criteria for success

In the first twelve months, the successful candidate will have:

1. Developed strong working relationships with the Development Director, the Head of Alumni Relations, the other members of the Development Office team, the Deputy Head (Pupils’ Personal Development and Employability),  and members of the School’s Senior Team;
2. Successfully devised and implemented projects to thank existing and acquire new supporters;
3. Created and begun to implement a plan to enhance the donor experience and to ensure successful retention of existing donors.

Could you be an active outreach member of staff that is proactive in going out to talk to students about their experiences and views?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate change maker to support our student leaders campaign to have a positive impact for the students that they represent. This role will also support students to engage with  AberSU decision making.

The Universities & Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) is the representative body for UK higher education employers and is known for its high-quality research, information and guidance on pay and reward and other employment-related matters. We are seeking a Research Analyst to support the provision and development of our employment and pay research and our benchmarking services.

Working within the research team you will lead on the delivery of major sector-wide surveys, analyse HESA and ONS statistics to build dashboards and infographics and make a significant contribution to UCEA’s research output providing valuable and practical insights to our member organisations and sector stakeholders.

In this role you will have opportunities to work on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research projects, from undertaking statistical analysis to designing bespoke surveys and writing case studies.

Applicants should be educated to degree level, ideally with post-graduate or professional research-related qualifications and have recent relevant research experience in economic and labour market data, employment/HR practice or similar areas. Intermediate R and advanced Excel skills are essential, along with knowledge of online survey software (UCEA uses SurveyGizmo). Python or SQL would be an advantage. Applicants must have a right to work in the UK.

This is a permanent, full-time position and the current salary band for this role is £33,879 to £36,537 per annum (dependent on experience). In addition, UCEA offers an excellent benefits package, including membership of a defined benefit hybrid pension scheme, a health and fitness scheme and generous annual leave. UCEA provides a strong development package for its research staff including a dedicated training allowance and a Datacamp subscription. Applications to work part-time, including in a job-share, will be considered.

If you think this role could be for you, please download the Applicant Pack, which includes the job description and person specification, and visit our website. For an informal discussion about the role please contact Muriel Bankhead, Head of Research.

Applications should include your current CV and a covering letter setting out what you will bring to this role.

The closing date for receipt of applications is midnight on Wednesday 15 July 2020.

The selection process for this role will be carried out virtually and consist of an initial interview with a test in R software during week commencing 27 July, and a second panel interview during week commencing 2 August 2020.

Location: Based at our Reading Education Centre. To be deployed to any TLG education centre nationally - primarily the South of the UK

Contract: Permanent

TLG is looking for a qualified teacher with a passion to turn around the lives of disaffected young people aged 12-16. Working across our growing network of 12 education centres (alternative provisions), and manage TLG centres for interim periods at a time, the Itinerant Centre Manager will be responsible for delivering exceptional educational programmes with imaginative curricula for disaffected young people, with proven skills and strategies to re-engage those on the verge of exclusion.

Working in partnership with a number of key stakeholders, and leading the local TLG team when on placement, the successful applicant will need to develop and maintain excellent relationships with schools, parents, referrers, and other agencies.

The successful candidate will have excellent team and communication skills and a successful track record in leadership and management, as well as a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding our children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. The successful applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS.

We would welcome applications from candidates from diverse backgrounds to enable us to better reflect the needs of the communities we serve.

The date of initial video interviews and final interviews is to be confirmed.