[Hiring] Scotland Programme Coordinator @Futures For All

Role Description

The purpose of this role is to support and ensure end-to-end delivery across Scotland within the Programme and Delivery team. The current focus is within our Creative Carers offer; however, this could evolve in terms of scope to include other flagship programmes in the future. This role will be crucial for liaising with Scottish schools, creative employers, speakers, and the wider charity to coordinate and ensure best practices in programmatic delivery, ensuring alignment with programme wide expectations and KPIs.

Essentially, this role is the glue between Futures For All, stakeholder outreach, and schools’ partners within Scotland. The role will be crucial in coordinating and ensuring successful delivery of different programmatic interventions including, but not limited to:

• School talks
• Workshops
• Work experience for young people in Scotland

This includes working with the Futures For All programme teams (Work Experience and Speakers for Schools Teams), and our internal Evaluation and Education teams.

Qualifications

• Programme Coordination experience, with complex stakeholder management
• Experience and knowledge of the education and careers landscape in Scotland
• Proficient in process improvement and reporting
• Proficient use of CRM and Microsoft Office to track relationships and ensure proper data management
• Clear and concise communicator, capable of producing written reports to a professional quality
• Excellent people relations and communication skills to liaise effectively with all project stakeholders
• Demonstrable time management skills and proven ability to work to key deadlines
• Relevant project coordination related experience
• Experience in analysing data and producing reports and recommendations

Requirements

• Responsible for the end-to-end delivery of Talks and Work Experience opportunities from initial scoping with schools to securing commitments from speakers and employers
• Nurturing relationships with key delivery partners to ensure employers or schools introduced to the programme are seamlessly onboarded
• Working with partners in securing commitments from speakers and employers to deliver talks, workshops, and multi-day work experience opportunities
• Account management and stewarding for speakers and employers throughout their journey
• Preparing employers and speakers to use all speaker and work experience guidance in the coordination and delivery of their placements
• Working closely with Delivery Partners to ensure seamless delivery of opportunities
• Leading on all speaker and employer engagement and meetings with dedicated contacts/accounts
• Work with evaluation team on developing and disseminating impact reports within your specific nation
• Working closely with Education team to ensure school engagement is in line with charity’s mission
• Delivering training sessions to schools and colleges on our programmes and building on engagement in Scotland
• Building partnerships as determined by needs of the DCMS contract and education partners
• Developing long-standing relationships with school and college contacts to enable engagement in and implementation of our product offer
• Providing best practice guidance and advice on programme set up and content
• Responsible for delivery and completion of own work experience placements and the operational and administrative activity required
• Taking ownership of own capacity management using capacity management frameworks to help inform future workload planning
• Adherence to data compliance, standards, guidelines and best practices to ensure our data integrity and consistency
• Retain our registered schools and colleges in our network and increase engagement levels in all programmes
• Ensuring all data relating to KPIs is accurate, recorded and presented in reports when required
• Represent and work to our values, fostering a culture of positivity, support, respect, and inclusivity
• Ensure safeguarding best practice is enshrined in all organisational activity

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Morning of your birthday off
• £500 a year professional development fund
• Option to purchase additional annual leave yearly
• 'Winter shutdown' gifted so no need to use annual leave between Christmas and New Year's Eve
• Early bank holiday finish - we finish at 3:30pm on a Friday before all bank holidays
• 22.2 hours of volunteering days to use each year
• Home office set up support
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Employee Assistance Programme