Senior Training Design Officer
Location: National Support Centre, London, SE1 / Hybrid working
Contract: Full time, fixed term one-year contract.
Salary: £32,500 gross per annum
Closing Date: 26 June 2025
Are you an educator looking for a new opportunity?
The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success.
We are currently looking for a Senior Training Design Officer to join the Sea Cadet’s Learning Development team.
If you enjoy creating fun, high-quality session plans, activities and resources for indoor and outdoor learning this could be the role for you.
Responsibilities
- Create fun, engaging learning activities and sessions
- Work with subject matter experts to ensure sessions are accurate and practical
- Promote the use of the sessions by engaging with volunteers at all levels
- Manage the creation of how to videos to support learning
- Participate in training reviews and evaluation
- To advise and consult on the creation of learning materials enabling a more inclusive Sea Cadet Experience
- Support active collaboration and sharing of effective practice.
- Lead working groups to empower young people to take ownership of their own learning
Requirements
Requirements
- Experience in creating fun, engaging learning activities
- Experience designing outdoor learning
- Confident writing high-quality session plans
- Experience working with young people
- Experience working with subject matter experts to create content
- Demonstrable experience in project management
- Strong IT literacy
Desirable
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- Knowledge of STEM subjects or Community Engagement
- Experience with e-learning
- Video editing skills e.g. Premier Pro or graphic design skills e.g. Illustrator or Canva
- Experience of working with 9-12 year olds – and creating age appropriate learning resources
For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack.
Benefits
- Some hybrid working opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme and Season Ticket Loan
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Life assurance (4x salary) for those that join the pension
- Private medical insurance
- Pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
- Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
- Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.
- National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise.
If you are interested in this Senior Training Design Officer vacancy, applications must consist of an including a 500 word supporting statement around they think they fit the job description and person specification, along with a CV. Without this, we sadly will be unable to consider your application for this role.
Additional Information
MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.
We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.
All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo a criminal record check, and successfully acquire MoD security clearance.
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ABOUT THE ROLE
The Women Transport Workers and Gender Equality Officer will play a fundamental role in leading and developing strategies on organising and increasing collective bargaining and leverage for women transport workers, on behalf of the ITF.
At the direction of the General Secretary and Executive Board, the Women Transport Workers and Gender Equality Officer will be responsible for leading the ITF’s Gender and Equality Programme. The role will be focused on developing leading campaign strategies to organise women workers and increase the capacity of our affiliates in this area. It will strategically engage with ITF affiliates, donor organisations and other relevant stakeholders to deliver projects globally, which includes managing relationships with multinationals to improve the state of gender and equality matters across transport supply chains.
This role will have accountability for the management of relevant staff of the Women’s Department, as well as budgeting and planning for all development initiatives.
ABOUT YOU
The mission and values of the ITF are of utmost importance and as such, the successful candidate for this role must hold high ethical standards, displaying diligence and integrity when representing the organisation.
We are looking for a purpose-driven individual with significant experience of effective leadership at a senior management level, including developing and leading on the successful implementation of key organisational strategies within a national or global trade union, or in a social movements context related to Gender and Equality. This person must be able to demonstrate strategic thinking and have excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
The role requires an excellent communicator who has the ability to work effectively to engage and motivate others towards change for women in the transport industry. It also needs someone who can effectively build relationships, as well as display strong collaborative and influencing skills.
The Women Transport Workers and Gender Equality Officer will be expected to undertake regular international travel and must be able to work flexibly including during out of office hours.
WHY WORK FOR US
The ITF offers a highly attractive salary and annual bonus, competitive pension scheme and annual leave entitlement, as well as the opportunity for international travel.
At the ITF, we are committed to providing an inclusive environment for our team and our affiliates. We see the diversity of our staff as a source of intelligence and strength. This means that we work creatively to make the most of unique experiences and perspectives. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, migration status, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union affiliation or activity.
THE ORGANISATION
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) is a democratic, affiliate-led federation recognised as the world’s leading transport authority. We fight passionately to improve workers' lives, connecting more than 700 affiliated trade unions from 150 countries to secure rights, equality and justice for workers' globally. We are the voice for nearly 18.5 million transport workers across the world.
We have offices in London, Abidjan, Amman, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Montreal, Nairobi, New Delhi, Panama City, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, with members spanning the globe.
Purpose:
The ITF constitution sets out the following aims:
To promote respect for trade union and human rights worldwide
To work for peace based on social justice and economic progress
To help our affiliated unions defend the interests of their members
To provide research and information services to our affiliates
To provide general assistance to transport workers in difficulty
Values
At the ITF, our values are at the heart of all that we do. We demonstrate solidarity. We are democratic. We are dynamic. We are determined. We are dedicated to bringing together a diverse group of people to truly strengthen the ITF as the global voice for transport workers. Find out more about our values.
Equal opportunities statement:
At the ITF, we are committed to providing an inclusive environment for our team and our affiliates. We see the diversity of our staff as a source of intelligence and our strength. This means that we work creatively to make the most of the unique experiences and perspectives. We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome all applications regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, race, migration status, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, disability, age, political opinions or trade union affiliation or activity.
For job descriptions or to apply for this role, please click the link which will forward you to our website.
Closing Date: 19 June 2025
Every day transport workers keep the world moving – connecting millions of people across our cities and countries


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