Education Officer
This is an exciting opportunity for an Education Officer to coordinate and deliver an exciting charity's Education programme.
Position: Education Officer - Prevention
Location: Milton Keynes
Contract: Fixed-term until 31/03/2025 (with potential for extension, pending funding)
Hours: Part time – 18.75 hours per week, working days to be agreed
Salary: Pro rata of £26,242 per annum, plus pension and other benefits
Closing Date: Sunday 14th July – we are doing interviews on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply at your earliest convenience.
About the Role
Working with the guidance and support of the National Education Programme Manager and the wider Prevention Team, you will be responsible for coordinating and delivering the Education programme in a range of settings, including schools, colleges and Pupil Referral Units across Milton Keynes. The programme aims to prevent youth homelessness by running bold and creative workshops on the subject for large groups of young people, as well as more intensive sessions with smaller groups on related issues such as healthy relationships and conflict management. It also includes training teachers and professionals working with young people on homelessness.
You will be responsible for building long-term relationships with educational institutions to support their young people. This will include selling the programme and meeting specific delivery targets. You will also play a key role in monitoring and evaluating our work to ensure it has the highest impact possible.
Key responsibilities include:
- Effectively lead and coordinate the organisation's education programme in your region.
- Deliver the programme's workshops to children and young people aged 11-18 in a variety of education and youth settings, including facilitating assemblies, classroom-based workshops and small group work, as well as delivering sessions virtually if required.
- Design and prepare engaging, innovative and high-quality resources and workshops that are integrated with the national curriculum and differentiated to meet the needs of children and young people with complex needs.
- Work collaboratively with the wider national team to periodically review and update the programme content, based on feedback and in line with developments in the sector.
- Take responsibility for, with full support, building strong partnerships with educational institutions in your region, including marketing the programme, generating income and meeting identified targets.
- Build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders (including other agencies and statutory teams) to promote the programme and develop clear referral routes for young people into other services.
- Be responsible for the timely and accurate recording of all activities and keeping the database up-to-date, overseeing the monitoring and evaluation procedures in your base region.
- Keep up-to-date with current issues affecting young people in your region and ensure the programme is tailored to the specific needs and context of the area you are responsible for. This may include designing bespoke projects within the parameters of our programme and quality standards, if appropriate.
About You
You will need to have the following skills and experience:
- Excellent ability to work productively with children and young people: skilled at building rapport, managing behaviour and addressing difficult topics appropriately.
- Confident to deliver engaging presentations, workshops and training to large groups of children, young people and adults, both in-person and virtually.
- Experience of designing and developing high-quality and innovative educational resources, lesson plans and workshops for children and young people in line with the national curriculum and other statutory guidance.
- Strong relationship management skills, able to build constructive partnerships with a range of professionals, influence senior figures and effectively explain the impact of our work.
- Working knowledge of target-driven environments, marketing and generating income; remaining motivated and using innovative approaches to solve problems and sell our work, ensuring we reach as many young people as possible.
- Demonstrable interest in the issues and challenges that face children and young people growing up in the UK. A knowledge of themes including homelessness, healthy relationships and risk-taking is desirable.
About the Organisation
The employer delivers a wide range of support and housing services for young people and adults at risk of homelessness. We specialise in the provision of services that prevent homelessness, increase the resilience of those we work with and energise opportunities for employment, education, training and volunteering in the communities we work within. Our organisation reaches from Newcastle to London, Greater Manchester and Milton Keynes.
You may have experience in areas such as such as Education Officer, Training and Development Officer, Regional Training and Development Officer, Trainer, Training and Information Officer, Training Lead, Education Officer, Education, Teacher etc. #INDNFP
PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation.