London - University Access Officer

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom The Access Project Full time

**Description**:

- **Closing Date**: EOD Monday 14th August
- **Salary**: £26,000
- **Working Pattern**: Full-time
- **Contract**: Permanent
- **Job Location**: London - Hackney
- **Interview date**: Monday 21st August
- **Start date**: ASAP
- **Reporting to**: Programme Manager

**About the organisation**

We believe that every young person should have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and make the most of their education. We’re passionate about reducing the educational barriers our students face, helping them to pursue a career in their chosen field and follow their dreams.

The programme combats educational inequality and improves social mobility by raising students’ grades and supporting them to understand the pathway to a top university. Students who receive support from our programme are more than twice as likely to attend top universities as statistically similar students, according to UCAS.

**Why work at The Access Project**

People who work at The Access Project are motivated by the desire to create a fairer society. We all play an active part in achieving the mission to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds access top universities. At The Access Project, we’re a friendly, collaborative, supportive and inclusive team, with passionate people working together in Programmes, Strategy & Impact, Volunteering, Fundraising & Communications and Operations to achieve our mission.

The vision of our people strategy is to enable and inspire all employees to achieve, grow, succeed and thrive. We regularly have opportunities for people to share their ideas in various working groups, generating strong teamwork across the organisation.

In the last year we engaged with staff across our organisation and co-created an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion vision and strategic objectives. Our work on this will develop throughout 2023 to ensure The Access Project can foster an equitable place to work.

We value every individual who works at The Access Project and we have a wide range of benefits that make this a rewarding place to work. In our last staff engagement survey, 90% said they’re proud to tell people they work at The Access Project.

**Our values**

**1. Empowerment**

We support students and our people to develop the skills and knowledge to accomplish their goals.

**2. Courage**

We encourage our students and our people to be authentic, innovative and ambitious in order to reach their full potential and deliver our mission.

**3. Impact**

We evolve our programmes through an evidence-led approach, supporting our students to achieve their best outcomes.

**4. Inclusion**

We respect and value individuality and engage diverse voices to achieve our mission.

**5. Ownership**

We hold ourselves accountable in all our actions and efforts. We ask “What can I do to improve my results?”

**About the role**

This vacancy is for a University Access Officer to work in one or two schools in London. Our schools are shown on a map The Access Project schools on our website.

The University Access Officer works with school staff at all levels, volunteer tutors, and with the rest of The Access Project’s team to ensure that the delivery of the programme is optimised.

**Role responsibilities**
- Engage with students in school and enrol them onto the programme
- Match students with volunteer tutors
- Monitor student attendance to tutorials and devise innovative solutions to encourage

attendance
- Assess student progress towards being able to make successful university
- Upload information onto the Salesforce database (training is provided)
- Monitor the impact of tutorials, and intervene as appropriate
- Build and manage relationships with volunteer tutors to ensure they have a positive

experience of the programme
- Manage tutor relationships and attendance to tutorials through weekly monitoring of
- Work with school staff to ensure their cooperation and timely completion of activities

contributing to the smooth running of the programme
- Chair and present at termly school meetings with Senior Management to report on

programme progress.
- University Access Officers support the volunteering team by helping to deliver tutor

training sessions, and attending university site visits, which take place on occasional

Saturdays and weekday evenings (paid time off is provided).
- Any other responsibilities reasonably deemed necessary by The Access Project’s

Programme Managers or Director

**Person specification**
- Able to deliver projects and manage administration accurately
- Able to communicate and influence with impact at all levels
- Able to effectively time manage
- Able to lead and manage change to embed the programme in school
- Resilient and adaptable
- Skilled in building and maintaining excellent relationships

**Training and Development**

You will be provided with regular monthly training so that you can develop your skills and succeed in the role. There is support from your line manag

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