Educational Partnerships Manager (Devon and Somerset)

Are you looking for an engaging, fulfilling, and varied role? Young Enterprise is looking for a new an Educational Partnerships Manager in Devon and Somerset. Young Enterprise is a national charity working directly with young people, teachers, volunteers, helping young people prepare for their future. This role supports the continued development of YE’s impact by providing young people with opportunities to engage in YE’s enterprise and financial education programmes building vital skills, developing an enterprising mindset, supporting them to build their future and enabling them to make a positive contribution to their community and society. As Educational Partnerships Manager you will be a key contributor to the regional educational partnerships team, supporting the team to achieve shared KPI’s for the region and the wider organisation. The role of Educational Partnerships Manager involves working directly with young people and teachers in schools that delivering / supporting delivery of our Young Enterprise programmes. The Educational Partnerships Manager role will suit someone that is able to work with young people, build rapport and engage young people from a range of backgrounds. You will need to be confident in working within education settings, liaising with school staff, volunteers, and corporate volunteers. This can be a varied role, but a very exciting role as well as very rewarding. Your experience of relationships development and management will help with developing new schools as well as supporting existing school relationships. There is not an exhaustive list but is to provide you with a flavour of the role. We are looking for: · A motivated self-starter · Ability to develop new relationships with range of stakeholders and support existing ones · Confident and happy in presenting and delivering to large audiences · Good organisational, prioritising, and problem-solving skills, with the resilience to work effectively under pressure · Excellent manner, rapport and professionalism with young people · An understanding or experience of managing relationships with volunteers · A great promoter and inspirer in helping young people achieve their potential · Computer literacy with understanding of word, excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Teams You'll be working alongside an experienced and passionate small regional team, with a 'can-do' ethos of supporting each other and sharing knowledge across programmes and geographies. Why work for us? · People-focussed with a friendly and supportive work-place culture · An active commitment to equality and diversity · Access to mentoring scheme with a corporate partner · Generous holiday allowance of 7.2 weeks (pro rata) · Access to NHS top-up scheme, for money back on expenses such as dental and optical · Access to an Employee Assistance Programme · Cycle-to-work scheme · Group Life Assurance Keeping Young People Safe Safeguarding is the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and protect them from harm. At Young Enterprise, we take our commitment to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults seriously. We design our roles, programmes and services with safeguarding in mind; conduct thorough checks on new employees in line with UK safeguarding legislation; and regularly enhance the safeguarding knowledge and skills of all our people, including when begin their role. All successful applicants in eligible roles that involve contact with young people will need to undertake an enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) Check prior to starting in the role, and at subsequent 3-year intervals. In addition, no Young Enterprise employee will at any point be unaccompanied while in the presence of children under the age of 18. In line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, in the vast majority of cases DBS checks which contain information on previous convictions will not disqualify an individual from working with us. If you have any questions please contact our HR Team by e-mail; you will find the address in the attached JD document. Full details can be found in the Job Description. This is a home-based role, however, will require significant travel in Devon and Somerset. DBS Required: YES Please send your CV – with a covering letter (no more than 2 sides of A4) explaining why you think you would be right for this opportunity by no later than midnight on 21 February 2025. Please note applications without a cover letter will not be considered. We will be assessing applications on a rolling basis and may shortlist and invite candidates to interview before the closing date. Interviews will take place via Teams. Although we endeavour to respond to all applications, if you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date you should consider your application unsuccessful.

Location: Somerset, GB

Posted Date: 1/30/2025