Job Description

This is a hybrid role. As well as working from home, you will travel to Milton Keynes College sites in Milton Keynes and Bletchley. You will also travel to our offices in London for one day a month (Travel to London will be eligible for expenses). We will be interviewing for this role on a rolling basis and may appoint before the closing date. As a Programme Coordinator, you will work directly with Programme Managers to build and manage positive relationships, respond to and resolve queries and act as the first point of contact across our three main stakeholder groups: students, tutors, and college staff. The key outcomes for this role are:

• Students: Across the academic year you will be responsible for a portfolio of up to 300 students, ensuring that they maintain engagement with tutoring and that all available spaces on your programmes are filled.
• Tutors: You will lead the task management of tutors who deliver to the students in your portfolio, ensuring that the tutors deliver high-quality tutoring to small groups of students and that attendance to sessions is consistently high.
• College staff: You will build relationships with staff across colleges in your portfolio, to ensure logistics are smooth, programmes are launched effectively and on time, and that we maintain regular communication and reporting with our college partners on programme delivery.

You will build transferable skills in programme delivery, communication, and relationship and task management and there will also be opportunities to support the charity across other aspects of its work. You will be encouraged to find new solutions to operational challenges and suggest better ways of working where possible. You will also be encouraged to take on bigger projects and carve out areas of responsibility for yourself depending on your interests. Essential Requirements:

• Commitment to Get Further\xe2\x80\x99s mission and values, including passionate about tackling educational inequality
• Excellent attention-to-detail and high standards for what can be achieved for all students
• Comfortable with stretching KPIs, a \xe2\x80\x98can-do\xe2\x80\x99 attitude and skilled at taking the initiative to ensure that our charity delivers for students
• Resilience, grit, and the ability to problem solve and find solutions without being phased in the face of logistic or operational challenges.
• A desire to try new approaches and apply lessons, and to learn and be proactive in owning your own development
• A warm and friendly communicator, with excellent spoken and written English language skills, who can present comfortably to students and lead conversations with senior leaders, including teachers and staff in colleges and sixth forms.
• IT skills \xe2\x80\x93 experience of MS Office, particularly Word and Exceltional needs.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent Salary: \xc2\xa323,500.00 per year Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Milton Keynes, MK6 5LP: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Milton Keynes, MK6 5LP Expected start date: 06/12/2023