Education Coordinator

Summary of Post

Sport 4 Life UK is here to help young people (aged 11-29) move into sustained education, training and work. We believe in giving young people the opportunity to create a better future for themselves.

We are looking for a passionate individual, who can coordinate, plan and deliver our qualifications service for disadvantaged young people and line manage a group of sessional staff to deliver the service to a high standard.

Our qualifications service is an essential part of our support to young people to help them build a better future for themselves. The service includes Sports Leaders, Functional Skills (English and Maths) and online qualifications.

The Education Coordinator will ensure the service is high quality and well organised, that young people’s experience is positive and that impact and evaluation data is recorded.

Find out more about our Mission and Values - https://sport4life.org.uk/our-mission/

Job description

The Education Coordinator will:

• Manage our qualifications service including developing our qualifications offer, monitoring & evaluation, logistics & staffing and session planning.
• Plan and deliver accredited and non-accredited qualifications and the delivery of a variety of online qualifications.
• Line manage a team of sessional Qualifications Tutors to support the delivery of qualifications.
• Support the recruitment of target young people into our service.
• Support young people on our service through regular communication, adapting to different learning styles & abilities and ensuring they have onward support.

Essential & Desirable Criteria

Essential:

• Evidence of CPD in youth education sector
• A relevant Level 3 qualification, i.e. in Learning & Development
• Qualified tutor status
• Recruiting hard to reach young people
• Delivery of accredited qualifications
• Experience of delivering sports activities
• 1+ year of working with 12-29 year old in learning and NEET young people
• An infectious passion, enthusiasm & charisma
• Excellent organisation skills
• A fully enhanced DBS disclosure
• Ability and confidence to work alone
• Ability to complete administrative tasks, and use computers (e.g. email, word processing)
• Previous experience line managing staff

Desirable:

• A relevant degree in sports coaching and/ or youth education
• A relevant Level 4 qualification- i.e. in Learning & Development
• Sports Leaders UK Tutor Training
• Qualified teacher status
• Managing a caseload of young people
• Recruiting young people to youth programmes
• Delivery of Sports Leaders UK qualifications
• High levels of self-motivation, energy and determination
• A polite, professional appearance & manner
• Evidence of commitment to S4L’s vision
• An interest in and passion for sport

Location: Midlands Based (dependant upon delivery), with frequent office-based working & delivery (Digbeth, Birmingham) alongside home working (subjects to T’s & C’s)

Number of vacancies: 1

Start Date: Immediate

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £24,500.00-£27,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Flexitime
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Flexitime

Work Location: Hybrid remote in BIRMINGHAM

Reference ID: 109