Education Development Officer

Sale Sharks Foundation is seeking an empathetic, proactive, and skilled Education Development Officer to support children, young people, and adults with diverse educational and employability needs. This role involves mentoring and tutoring young people at risk of becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) and working with adults to enhance their skills, confidence, and readiness for employment.

The successful candidate will deliver impactful 1-1 and group sessions, fostering positive attitudes, personal growth, and essential life skills for participants of all ages. They will also play a crucial role in growing our education programme by building relationships and delivering creative, high-quality learning opportunities within schools, community settings, and adult education environments.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Programme Development and Delivery:

• Plan and deliver 1-1 and group mentoring sessions tailored to individual needs, building confidence and motivation through mentorship and practical skill-building.
• Creating, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating education programmes involves a structured, learner-centred approach that ensures inclusivity and accessibility for a variety of learning styles.
• Use innovative approaches to engage participants, addressing the unique challenges faced by both young people and adults to inspire and empower them to overcome barriers to education and employment.
• Plan and execute high quality learning sessions in schools, community settings, and adult learning environments, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility.
• Support behaviour management systems in educational and community settings.
• Mentor participants with varying abilities, needs, and demands in diverse environments.
• Act as a strong role model, promoting personal development and positive attitudes.
• Work with learners to develop a progressive programme for their educational and professional development goals, including guidance on pathways to further education, training, or employment opportunities where appropriate.

Relationship Building:

• Build trusting relationships with children, young people, adults, and their families to support educational and personal growth.
• Collaborate with schools, community organisations, adult education providers, and other stakeholders to expand programme reach and impact.
• To maintain strong relationships with schools, managers, and referral partners through effective and regular communication.
• Working with communication colleagues to support content creation and marketing to ensure awareness of the work of Sale Sharks Foundation across your areas of work, ensuring all safeguarding practices and GDPR are followed.

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting:

• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of sessions and interventions through on-going monitoring.
• Monitor progress and outcomes, ensuring timely and accurate reporting leads, line managers and external stakeholders as required.
• Keep accurate attendance and monitoring records for all sessions and contribute to the creation of Individual Learning Plans, Personal Education Plans, Educational Health Care Plans, and internal reporting.
• Co-ordinate learner progress reports and create accurate monitoring records and reports for all programmes and projects and gather and analyse evaluation information on the systems for activities and individuals within those activities.

General:

• Supporting delivery across other departments and projects as required.
• Any other level appropriate duties as required by the employer.

This job description is not necessarily an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect the range of duties the post-holder will perform. The job description will be reviewed regularly and may be changed in the light of experience and in consultation with the post-holder.

There may be times on occasions, when the role may have to working evenings and weekends, including match days. This will always be agreed in advance with time off in lieu offered.

It is key to this role that candidates:

• Understand and implement the Foundations’ Safeguarding Policies, procedures, and best practice guidelines and to use this understanding to ensure safe working practices, appropriate reporting of concerns and contribute positively to a safe environment.
• Demonstrate the Sale Sharks Foundation values at all times.
• Promote Sale Sharks Foundation’s brand and ethos in a professional and positive manner.
• Be committed to applying and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion at Sale Sharks Foundation and comply with all Charity policies and procedures.