Project Lead

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership Full time

Project Lead (FTC)
London, E1

About Us

We’re The Switch (Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnership), a pioneering charity driving change within education to empower children and young people to dream big and achieve their aspirations.

With more than 30 years of experience behind us, we’re focused and committed to helping our local East London community boost the career options for young people and give every child a bright and promising future.

We pair trained business volunteers, who work in The City or Canary Wharf, with pupils in Tower Hamlets primary schools, to boost students’ literacy and numeracy skills and knowledge of the world of work.

We are currently seeking a Project Lead, to join us on a full-time basis for a nine month fixed term contract, with the possibility of extension.

The Benefits
- Salary of £30,000 pro rata
- 26 day’s holiday pro rata, plus bank holidays
- Christmas shutdown
- Pension
- A commitment to your professional development

This is a brilliant opportunity for a project manager with experience of working with children and volunteers to join our crucial organisation.

In this highly rewarding role, your work will help to mitigate the barriers to employment and increase educational attainment across the area we work in, meaning better outcomes for the children and strong communities.

As well as being an incredibly satisfying role, this is an incredible chance to build some fantastic professional connections and networks, as you enhance your professional portfolio.

The Role

As a Project Lead, you will oversee the delivery of our project that pairs primary-aged pupils in the Tower Hamlets area with Reading, Numeracy and Writing Partners from The City or Canary Wharf.

Acting as the point of contact for schools and businesses, you will pair primary-aged pupils with professionals and facilitate online training and in person inductions for the partners.

Supporting the Senior Project Manager, you’ll design and deliver weekly resources for Number Partners and attend occasional Reading and Number sessions to troubleshoot any issues.

**Additionally, you will**:

- Record all training and volunteering on our CRM system
- Facilitate office visits and implement good safeguarding practice there

About You

**To be considered as a Project Lead, you will need**:

- Experience of managing a project, programme or event with multiple stakeholders
- Experience working with primary-aged pupils and schools
- Experience managing volunteers and training adults
- Experience in Corporate Social Responsibility and/or working with businesses such as banks and law firms
- Awareness of the Key Stage Two curriculum
- Knowledge of volunteering good practice
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
- Strong communication skills

An enhanced DBS clearance is also essential. This can be undertaken as soon as you are in post.

Other organisations might call this position Education and Business Partnership Lead, Business Volunteer Co-ordinator, Mentoring Project Co-ordinator, Education Project Manager, Business Mentorship Project Co-ordinator, or Mentorship Project Leader.

Webrecruit and The Switch 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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