*Please Note: we have an incredible opportunity to hire multiple Programme Officers if suitable candidates are found.*

Purpose of this post is:

The programmes officer is responsible for delivery on assigned programmes, ensuring that participants receive quality provision, whether working solely or with external delivery partners and consultants, this includes collecting and reviewing beneficiary and partner data. This post will support the programmes coordinators and programmes managers in preparing copy and data for reports. Programmes officers will create and feed ideas into programmes media posts and will be responsible for creating and compiling quality programmes resources.

Main Duties: (subject to update with organisational and funder priorities)

• Programme delivery and facilitation
• Delivery and facilitation and session/event reflection and review
• Collecting, processing, and reviewing some programmes data
• Collecting, processing, and reviewing programmes data
• Planning and creating sessions, resources, and programmes content
• Creating copy and preparing data for reporting
• Collaborating with external delivery partners to create programme content and resources
• Creating media and comms content for programmes

*This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to updates following funding or organisation priority changes.

Person Specification:

Demonstrable programme delivery/facilitation skills [Essential]

Good written and verbal communication skills [Essential]

Demonstrable ability to collaborate and work well within a team [Essential]

Ability to take accountability of workload and deliver to set expectations [Essential]

Alignment with charity mission and purpose [Essential]

A range of IT skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint [Essential]

Experience facilitating within a charity setting [Desirable]

 GENERAL MATTERS

• Keep abreast of developments, changes and best practice in the fields related to assigned programme portfolio, and wider inclusion as it relates to the charity’s mission.
• Knowledge of programme management where beneficiaries are BAME and/or underprivileged.
• Undertake any other duties which may arise from time to time, commensurate with the scope of the post and within the capabilities of the post holder
• This post is subject to a Disclosure and Baring Service (DBS) check

KNOWLEDGE AND ROLE REQUIREMENTS 

• Experience managing on programmes.
• Ability to perform all main duties outlined above.
• Strong communication skills both written and oral
• IT skills including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint 
• Knowledge of programmes and continuous improvement

ADDITIONAL JOB REQUIREMENTS 

• Willingness and ability to work outside of normal office hours.
• Willingness to work flexibly in response to changing organisational requirements.

Background to Blueprint for All

At Blueprint for All we believe in a future where talent is respected and nurtured irrespective of where it comes from, where organisations recognise and realise the benefits of a diverse workforce and where our communities can come together and thrive. This is our blueprint to set the foundations for a more inclusive society to grow.

Our high impact programmes work with disadvantaged young people and communities, providing tangible opportunities and support that enables them to thrive, whilst driving systemic change in organisations and society.

Blueprint for All Programmes

Our programmes span three main areas:

Careers: We work with schools, universities, community groups and employers to inspire and enable young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, aged 13-30 to pursue the career of their choice. From career advice to support gaining skills, qualifications and the critical foundations required to ensure professional success, we aid young people on their journey to a fulfilling and successful career.

Communities: We run programmes that support community groups working with people from BAME backgrounds to maximise their impact and make positive changes for local people. Our BME Network supports over 120 small voluntary and community groups, and our Community Leadership Academy provides learning and development tailored to the needs of small and micro charities that are led by or serve people from BAME backgrounds. In partnership with other national and local charities, our Love Sex Life project challenges inequalities in access to and provision of sexual health services for BAME communities in Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham.

Society: We are working to create a society where talent is respected and nurtured irrespective of where it comes from, where organisations recognise and realise the benefits of a diverse workforce, and where our communities can come together and thrive. All our work is designed not only to support our beneficiaries, but to drive systemic change in organisations and society as a whole.

Location:

Normally based at the Blueprint for All office, Deptford. (Working from home when government and organisation guidance requires)

Diversity policy

Blueprint for All is keen to encourage applications from people from all backgrounds including race, disability, gender, faith, and sexual orientation.

The post will be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Please tailor your Cover Letter to the Job Description. 

The For Baby’s Sake Trust is recruiting to two separate part-time Programme Officer posts to support two of its For Baby’s Sake teams, the recently launched CONNECT team and the established London Bi-borough team. Both teams deliver the charity’s innovative  programme, For Baby’s Sake, which works with parents to break cycles of domestic abuse and give their baby the best start in life. The post supporting the CONNECT team will be home-based with occasional travel required to London or Stevenage to meet the service needs. The post supporting the London Bi-Borough team is office-based but offers a hybrid model of working flexibly from home and the office base.

The separate roles are responsible for developing and maintaining the teams’ administration and case management systems, and play a pivotal role in the collection, input, collation, analysis, and presentation of data.  For Baby’s Sake is evidence-based and the quality and analysis of data is central to case management and the delivery, development and evaluation of the programme.

Each post-holder will be required to work with multi-agency staff, either in the Bi-borough area of central west London (Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea) or in localities where For Baby’s Sake CONNECT is operating. Both will also be required to  work remotely with The For Baby’s Sake Trust staff at its central office as well as working with any of our other area-based teams as the need arises and if there is capacity in the role.

As a Programme Officer, you will have:

• Excellent communication skills in all formats, demonstrating tact, fluency, clarity and the ability to summarise and convey complex information
• A passion for data and excellent data handling and IT skills, and advanced Excel skills in particular, to play a pivotal role in the collation, storage, analysis and presentation of data related to For Baby’s Sake and its service users
• Organisational flair and discipline, ability to work on own initiative whilst also being a team player
• The initiative, resourcefulness, flexibility and resilience necessary to work in a changing environment
• Willingness to embrace work challenges with the intention of delivering success, by utilising time management skills and the ability to prioritise effectively to meet timescales

For Baby’s Sake is an innovative, therapeutic, trauma-informed programme working with all family members supporting a recovery framework to overcome the devastating effects of domestic abuse, acknowledge and explore unresolved and often complex childhood trauma and change harmful patterns of behaviour to develop a home environment where children can flourish.

There must be a current pregnancy to harness change motivations, a desire on behalf of both parents to co- parent their unborn baby, although they do not have to be in a relationship, and we work with the families up until the baby reaches the age of 2.

Both positions are for 18.5 hours per week on a permanent contract. A secondment from Westminster City Council or the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is encouraged for the post based within the London Bi-Borough For Baby’s Sake team.

Full details, including the job description, person specification and background briefing information can be found in the relevant attachments.

Please also complete and submit the equal opportunities monitoring form – this is confidential and voluntary and will not form part of the selection process.

Closing date: Midday on 2nd February 2022.

Shortlisted candidates will be informed by close of business on 3rd February and interview dates will be held on the 9th or 10th of February.

We are the national body for careers education in England, delivering support to schools and colleges to deliver modern, 21st-century careers education.

The Careers & Enterprise Company is a great place to work. We operate within a fast-paced and collaborative environment. We are brought together by one thing: our passion to ensure young people get the best possible start in life and are supported to find their best next step.

Do you want to be part of a mission-driven team focused on transforming young people’s lives? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Role Summary

This role is critical in supporting the smooth running of the Network of Careers Hubs and Enterprise Adviser Network, the backbone of the CEC’s operations, through which we deliver to all our schools through Local Enterprise Partnerships, Combined Authorities and Local Authorities.

As Network Programme and Data Officer, you will work with the Network Operations Manager to ensure that accurate data is maintained on membership of the Network and provide analysis and forecasting to support the growth and development of the Network of Careers Hubs and ongoing operational delivery. You will pride yourself on producing robust and accessible data with clear reporting on findings that can be presented at a senior level. The role is key to ensuring that the programme achieves its KPIs and meets the Grant Funding Agreement requirements held with the Department for Education.

You will contribute to building exceptional stakeholder engagement, leading on some aspects of reporting, supporting with communications, and maintaining and analysing records of key aspects of performance to produce meaningful insights into performance, improvements and what impact has been made.

Internally, you will work closely with the team of Regional Leads, Area Managers, and the Digital and Data Team, as well as the Business Partnerships and Education Development teams to support the delivery of the Network on the ground, identify opportunities to improve processes and collate evidence of the impact of the Enterprise Adviser Network and Network of Careers Hubs.

Our organisation has a privileged opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions of young people, helping to inspire and prepare them for the fast-changing world of work, and we want you to help us make it happen.

Applicants are asked to submit a supporting statement (on no more than 2 x A4 pages) outlining how you fulfil the qualifications, experience, skills and core competencies criteria provided in the Job Description and an up-to-date CV.

To apply, please click the Apply button to send us your CV responding to two questions below. Applications with no supporting cover letter will not be considered.

• Why are CEC and the role of interest?
• How do you meet the candidate requirements? To be based on evidence.

This vacancy may be closed early if sufficient applications have been submitted. Therefore, please do not delay in submitting your application.

Closing date: 11 February 2022.

It is our policy to review all applications within two weeks from the closing date. If you do not hear from us within three weeks following the closing date, then your application has unfortunately not been successful on this occasion. We are unable to provide feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted and attended an interview.

The Connect Fund is looking for a new Programme and Communications Officer to join the team and support its mission of strengthening the social investment market in England to better meet the needs of charities and social enterprises. The Programme and Communication Officer will be a highly organised individual who will oversee the programme administration as well as convening our Learning Community and disseminating its findings and recommendations.

The Barrow Cadbury Trust is an independent charitable foundation seeking a just and peaceful society which recognises the equal value of all people.  Largely working in partnerships with others, we use all our resources – our grants, our people and our name - to bring about structural change, thus increasing social justice and equality.

Barrow Cadbury Trust delivers the Connect Fund on behalf of our partners, Access – the Foundation for Social Investment. The Connect Fund has been established to strengthen the social investment market in England to better meet the needs of charities and social enterprises.

This is a part-time fixed term contract up until 31st March 2024 with a salary of £31,147–37,232 p.a pro-rata for 21 hours a week, open to flexible working over 3-5 days + a contributory pension scheme. Any offer of employment will be made subject to references, confirmation of the right to work in the UK where we will need to see original documents and the satisfactory completion of a probationary period. Before you apply have a look at Barrow Cadbury Trust’s short animation about our values and the way we work.

Closing date for applications is 8am on Monday 14 February.  Interviews for short listed candidates will be held on Monday 21 February at our office at Kean House, 6 Kean Street, London, WC2B 4AS.

A unique opportunity has become available for those at a junior level looking to upskill through provided training and develop their project experience further. A charity that delivers expert-led financial education programmes to young people in schools and youth organisations is hiring for an Programme Assistant to play a key role in managing their evaluation systems and conducting work across most of their evaluation projects. This is a full-time permanent role offering a hybrid working model between their central London office and at home.

As the Evaluation Assistant, you will be part of a three-person team, managing the internal evaluation systems which include survey tools, databases, planning documents and analysis spreadsheets. Alongside working on evaluation projects, you will have varied opportunities to work on planning frameworks, quantitative and qualitative data, conducting interviews and focus groups, and analysis and report writing.

You will have the following skills and experience:

* Experienced in conducting some programme evaluation activities
* Strong IT skills, with familiarity of CRM systems
* Good analytical ability able to demonstrate some data evaluating
* Experience of managing small scale projects and independent activities
* Good written, numeracy and presentation skills
* Can prioritise, multi-task and work to deadlines
* Ability to work in a team and independently.
* Knowledge or experience of working with young people is an advantage

If this sounds like the role for you then we would love to hear from you. We are reviewing CVs as and when we are receiving them so if you are keen to apply, then please do so today.

TPP are always keen to speak with candidates looking to work in the sector so if this role isn't quite right for you, please do check out our website www.tpp.co.uk and pop your CV over to us!

We want you to have every opportunity to demonstrate your skills, ability and potential; please contact us if you require any assistance or adjustment so that we can help with making the application process work for you.

About the role

• Program Assistant (Governance/Legal and Economic): Member of the Legal & Economic and Governance teams
• Location: New York or London – please note that you must already have the relevant work permit in either of those locations as we are not in a position to offer sponsorship.
• Contract type: Permanent
• Hours per week: 40 hours
• Remuneration: Dependent on the successful candidate’s location, and in line with the corresponding salary band and our remuneration principles.
• Application closing date: 19 January 2022 – Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a rolling-basis and may close the role earlier if we have received sufficient applications. We therefore strongly encourage early applications.
• How to apply: To apply, please submit a CV/resume and a covering letter. Please note that applications submitted without a covering letter will not be considered.

About this opportunity

The Program Assistant (Governance/Legal and Economics): is a newly created role at NRGI, that will provide administrative, program management and research support to the Legal and Economic and Governance teams.

The role is a great opportunity for a research and administrative professional, with some experience already, to expand their skills and gain exposure to a leading international not-for-profit working on natural resource governance with operations and stakeholders across more than 15 countries.

If this role is hired in the U.S., this position is classified as Non-Exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Key responsibilities

You will lead on meeting preparation and execution for regular team meetings and with external event organizers.

You will schedule meetings and assist with the substantive preparation of materials for meetings. You will take detailed meeting notes and summarize key takeaways. You will follow up with participants to organize next steps, at the direction of the Director of Governance Programs and Director of Legal and Economics Programs.

This role will carry out research assignments and contribute to monitoring, evaluation and learning reports and communication materials that will advance thematic team efforts to position NRGI as a thought leader in the governance of natural resources. This will include desk research and inputs for presentations, briefs and blogs on natural resource governance and related matters.

You will provide administrative support for the Director of Governance Programs and Director of Legal and Economics Programs, aiming to proactively identify administrative needs.

This role might be for you if…

You are well-organized and effectively execute administrative tasks, research projects, and meetings.

You have a passion for international development, and excellent attention to detail.

You have excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across a team of multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural backgrounds to support the delivery of research and administrative tasks for the Governance and Legal and Economics Programs.

You possess the ability to work under pressure, taking action and getting things done, both in managing their own workload and as a team player.

You are interested in our mission and values, and would like to apply your skills to support the advancement of NRGI’s mission.

Experience required:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience, ideally gained within a non-government or international development organization.
• Experience working with international organizations or non-government organizations with different time zones preferred.
• Experience of working on research projects and conducting desk and policy analysis research.
• Experience of managing budgets and tracking expenses.
• Experience of working with information management systems is strongly preferred.
• Excellent skills in written and spoken English. In addition, fluency in Spanish and/or French would be advantageous.
• Preferably experience working in a matrixed environment and collaborating with staff across different cultures and time zones.

Required software expertise:

• Microsoft packages: PowerPoint, Excel and PowerPoint

Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelors level degree is essential, with demonstrated academic experience in international relations or development, political economy or related fields.
• An interest in academic research is desirable

Are you passionate about building a Church which caters effectively for children and young people? Are you a team player committed to working with others to develop resources and programmes for children and young people?

An opportunity has arisen for a new role to support the Children’s and Youth Work Office of the United Reformed Church.
In this role you will contribute to projects, programmes and resources for local churches as well as support the Children’s and Youth Work team in maintaining communication and a strong web presence. This is a varied role requiring flexibility within a lively team.

You will be an experienced and creative children's and youth worker with excellent communication skills.
You will need to be able to work with a diverse group of colleagues and volunteers. You will ensure that the various events, publications, online materials, and opportunities offered for children, young people, their families and workers, are delivered to a high standard.

We can offer a friendly and flexible working environment; hybrid working from Church House in London and from home is possible.

If you are interested in working for us and can meet the above requirements, please contact see our website for an application form (noting that we do not accept CVs).

Closing date for applications: 12 noon, Friday 4 February 2022
Interview date: Tuesday 15 February 2022

This post requires a satisfactory enhanced DBS certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Location: WFH/Islington, hybrid working

Salary: £23,000-£25,000 (Pro-rata) 0.6 FTE £13,800-£15,000

Hours: Part Time (22.5 hours per week) 

Contract: Permanent

Vacancy Reference: S053

Closing date: 02.02.22 at noon

Interview date: 10.02.22

Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, particularly women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the Service

We are a small, dedicated Volunteering Team, working closely with staff teams and managers across the organisation. We are an Investors in People Employer, committed to attracting, retaining and developing excellent people. 

Our Volunteering Team supports over 100 volunteers every year who work across the range of services provided by the organisation. Volunteers are vital to the work we do and we are continuously seeking ways to improve our service to meet organisational need and maximise the experience for our volunteers.

About the Role

The Volunteering Programme Assistant will provide efficient and effective administrative support to the Volunteer Coordinator, in a confidential and professional manner. 

You will assist with a full range of administrative tasks throughout the volunteer life cycle, including recruitment, onboarding, new starters and leavers processes, training administrat

About You

This is an excellent opportunity to begin your career as part of a busy team. You will have strong communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships. 

Ideal candidates will have experience of providing administrative support to a busy team and working with volunteers, with excellent organisational and planning skills. Experience of supporting volunteer recruitment and using HR platforms is desirable. 

In return, we offer great employee benefits including a generous holiday entitlement and a genuine commitment to learning and development. 

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants from black minority and ethnic communities.

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

As part of safer recruitment we require all successful candidates will be required to complete a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure.

No agencies.

What we do

The Ogden Trust is a charitable Trust, supporting physics education. The Trust’s aim is to maximise the opportunities available to young people in all parts of the UK’s educational system and is now focused on science, particularly physics. The Trust supports a range of initiatives, programmes and projects to promote the teaching and learning of physics.

The role

The Ogden Trust is recruiting for a Programme Officer for the Opportunities for All strand of the Trust’s strategy. The post holder will be responsible for developing content and ensuring delivery of programmes including, but not limited to:

• Ogden Outreach Officers (university-based)
• Physics-related internships for 16-18 year olds
• Working with community groups

As part of this role, the post holder will manage the administrative side of these programmes, including application, funding and reporting. They will organise and run events related to the programmes, including delivery of some outreach activities. This role reports to the Programme Manager for the Opportunities for All strand and the Chief Executive.

Person specification

You will need to be educated to degree level, or equivalent, with excellent knowledge of both office and customer relationship management systems. You will need to have a good understanding of the formal and informal learning systems in England and an enthusiasm for enabling young people to achieve.

You will need experience of working in programme administration and events organisation, with a background in delivering outreach and engagement activities. Strong communication and organisational skills are required, along with a track record of building successful working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders, particularly with higher education institutions, industry and community groups.

The post holder will be an integral part of the Ogden team, but must also be able to work on their own initiative to meet required deadlines.

The Ogden Trust is committed to equal opportunities and values diversity in its workforce. 

We are looking for an organised, proactive, solution-focussed and self-motivated individual to provide project co-ordination for the Foundation’s EAL Programme.

Programme Coordinator Requirements:

A logical and systematic thinker, your role will involve managing programme information and data collection for evaluation, co-ordinating and maintaining effective project management systems, and ensuring the administration of programme activity including webinars and online training courses. With excellent interpersonal skills and a friendly manner, you will act as a point of contact for enquiries about the Foundation and its work.

You will have experience working in a comparable role co-ordinating and managing projects delivered both with external partners and across a team. You will be flexible, with the ability to work at pace to deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail, and able to work on your own initiative and as a central part of the team.

The Bell Foundation believe in diversity, valuing difference and tolerance. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of first language, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

The Bell Foundation is committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. A DBS check will be requested in the event of a successful application.

About Us:

The Bell Foundation is a charity which aims to overcome exclusion through language education by working with partners on innovation, research, training and practical interventions. The Foundation is delivering its vision through three strategic programmes which focus on pupils, young people and those involved with the criminal justice system for whom English is an Additional Language. The Foundation has an exciting opportunity to work within a growing, dynamic team to assist and support the running of these programmes.

The Bell Foundation offers the following benefits:

• 25 days’ annual leave per year plus 8 public holidays.
• Pension Scheme: 5% employee/employer matching contributions. Employees can also choose to make their pension contributions via salary sacrifice.
• Options to Buy /Sell Annual Leave.
• BUPA Dental Plan.
• Free Eye Tests.
• Life Assurance Scheme.
• Tech Scheme.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Health Assured Employee Assistance Plan.
• Free car parking on-site (Cambridge).
• Subsided canteen on-site (Cambridge).

Location: Flexible
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Salary: £26,609 - £31,304 per annum plus benefits

Closing date: 17:00 on Monday 7 February 2022.
Interviews: Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 February 2022

You may have experience of the following: Programme Assistant, Project Assistant, Programme Administrator, Project Administrator, Programme Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Project Manager, Administrator, Admin Assistant, Office Administrator, etc.

Ref: 106 381

Why we exist

ThinkForward exists to empower young people to create better and brighter futures. We want them to be able to identify, realiseand shape their aspirations and be ready to make a successful transition into work.

Young people experiencing barriers such as challenging relationships, living in low-income households, or growing up in areas with a lack of access to opportunities can be confronted with hurdles. Without the right support these can lead to high risks of unemployment and long-term effects on their career and life chances.

There are more than 800,000 16-24-yearolds in the UK who aren’t at school or college, or don’t have a job or training place. Our ambition is to prevent young people becoming one of these statistics. In 2021 we will be supporting more than 1000 young people.

 Our “Effective Transitions” Project will work with young black males studying in Alternative Provision settings across London and will run from February 2022 for two years. Through building social capital and delivering targeted employer-led careers education, the pilot aims to test activities that will ensure sustained quality post-16 outcomes. 

Interested candidates are invited to read the job information pack attached to this advert. 

We want a world where income doesn’t affect education. So, we’re on a mission to use the power of tutoring to smash the barriers in learning and enable every child to succeed. We are on the lookout for a Programme Officer to join us on this exciting journey!

About Tutors United

We are an award-winning and rapidly evolving social enterprise, delivering confidence-boosting, attainment-raising group tutorials to some of Planet Earth’s coolest primary school pupils. We are committed to bringing the benefits of tutoring to every child, ensuring their socio-economic background doesn’t hinder how much they can achieve in life.

We do this by hiring and training brilliant university students to deliver after school group tutorials in core subjects with a specially devised curriculum, designed by expert teachers. We are the affordable option for parents and funders who want to see fantastic results for primary school children from low-income households and have a brilliant Programme Officer position available for an ambitious, dedicated, and proactive individual!

Job Purpose

The Programme Officer will be responsible for the coordination and overall management of our programmes, which we are now scaling to reach nearly 1,000 pupils per year nationwide. This will involve managing relationships with tutors, parents and clients as well as collecting qualitative and quantitative data to help measure the impact and build the success of the programme.

This role is of crucial importance to Tutors United, as the Programme Officer will lead on the delivery and evaluation of a number of programmes, manage relationships with parents, tutors and clients; and contribute to the development of our flagship Tutoring Young Residents programme. You will also work closely with our programmes team to ensure the programmes achieve their intended outcomes.

We are looking for an individual who is enthusiastic about education and has strong stakeholder management skills. You should be able to adapt to the different forms of communication between clients, parents, tutors, and funders and have strong presentation skills. You will need to have brilliant project management skills and be comfortable working with data and using it to make informed decisions.

If you enjoy engaging your creative side, have exceptional people-skills and want to engage in strategy to contribute to the growth of a promising social enterprise, you will love it here!

Encouraging diversity

We are eager to hear from individuals with lived experience of educational inequality who may have valuable insight or skills to contribute to our mission. Representation and diversity matter at Tutors United. Therefore, we are strongly encouraging applications from groups that are underrepresented in the sector, including men, Black, and Asian people.

Download the Job Description for more information on the role and how to apply!

Royal National Children's Springboard Foundation is a social mobility charity. We believe in the power that fully-funded bursary places at boarding and independent schools offer for children from challenging and complex backgrounds.

We are seeking a dynamic individual who believes, like us, that an increase in the equality of opportunities leads to increased equality of outcomes, and longer-term a more equitable society. You will be passionate about supporting students from diverse backgrounds. You will work as part of a small team to deliver a Department for Education contract to extend opportunities at independent and boarding schools for children who are either in, or on the edge-of care ("Looked After & Vulnerable Children" - LAVC). Children eligible for this programme include those in foster care placements, unaccompanied asylum seeking minors, those who are young carers and/or those with a Child in Need or Child Protection Plan.

Working alongside the LAVC Programme Manager you will help in the process of identifying, preparing and supporting young people (and their carers/parents) to ensure that they thrive in their independent/boarding school placements. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate compassion and experience of working with children and young people who are either in, or on the edge of, children's social care. The role involves significant elements of engaging with children and families face to face, often in their homes, and travel extensively to different parts of the UK, to assist with the application process to secure bursary places, the pastoral care and support that is needed to ensure the young person is scaffolded throughout their time at school, and to support the LAVC Programme Manager to build understanding amongst Local Authority professionals of the benefits of referring young people for the programme.  Your organisational and case management skills will be second to none, maintaining excellent communication, empathy and quality support to the children, schools, parents/carers and Local Authorities that we work with.

Working within our Programmes Team, you will support the LAVC Programme Manager to coordinate all aspects of the Looked-After & Vulnerable Children Programme, with specific responsibility for:

• Liaising with Local Authority professionals, families and RNCSF accredited schools to support coordination and delivery of all admissions processes and procedures
• Monitoring individual pupils' journeys - processing and acting on data about their emotional, social and academic progress and coordinating multi-agency responses in relation to specific cases where needed
• Supporting LAVC programme participants to prepare for their bursary placements and become SpringBoard alum.
• Managing operational aspects of the “SpringForward” outreach programme - which supports LAC for whom bursary places are not available/appropriate to access other elements of an independent school education (e.g. in the form of access to University preparation support, mentors, music/sports facilities etc.)

This is a fixed-term role to September 2022, with the option to extend pending contract re-negotiation with the Department for Education. It offers an exciting opportunity for an individual to support a programme that has the potential to have a significant impact on a key social problem. You will join a small team of recent graduates and those with experience up to Director level - all of whom share a passion for improving social mobility through harnessing the commitment of the UK's boarding and independent school sector to widen access to their fully-funded bursary places and outreach activities.

We are currently working remotely due to the COVID restrictions with access to an office in Central London on a hot-desking basis. The job is subject to having the right to work in the UK and an enhanced DBS check. 

We are seeking a Programmes Officer to coordinate and support the delivery of the Trust’s expansive pan London grant programmes.

Programmes Officer
Reference: 933/POG
Location: Groundwork London Islington (Angel) office, with a requirement to work across London / remote working arrangements.
Contract: One year fixed term contract, with a possibility to extend
Salary: Circa £22,500
Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Groundwork London is responsible for a number of grant schemes across a variety of areas of environmental and regeneration themes, including TfL Walking & Cycling Grants London, GLA Grow Back Greener, Community-Led Recovery, MOPAC Shared Endeavour and Our Space Award.

The Programmes Officer will coordinate and support the delivery of the Trust’s expansive pan London grant programmes.

The role will focus on coordinating and executing grant application processing, and coordinating project monitoring and report generation for programme partners and funders. The post holder will be the key contact for all grant schemes managed by Groundwork London, responding to queries and providing training to both prospective grant applicants and funded groups.

The post holder will have proven organisational, time management and co-ordination skills and be able to demonstrate a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and databases to maintain complex administrative and monitoring systems with high degrees of accuracy. Excellent written and verbal communication skills will be essential in the role.

Our Grants team manages a diverse range of grant programmes from a variety of funders that support the improvement of communities’ green spaces and residents’ integration, employment, and health and wellbeing. Our team is equipped for every stage of grant management, from the development of the programme and all documentation, marketing and communications, including web and social media presence, to supporting applicants, assessment of applications, and recommendations for funding and supportive monitoring of projects.

We also frequently have additional training and capacity building elements in our programmes to ensure applicants and grantees gain even more support in applying for and delivering successful projects. Our tried and tested ‘enabling’ model involves our team reaching out to communities, encouraging applications from organisations of all sizes, and guiding them through the process, from small grassroots organisations to Local Authorities.

Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 31st January 2022
Interview date: W/c 7th February 2022 (via Zoom or Teams)

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Groundwork London is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all members of the community.

No agencies please.