Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager - Financial Literacy and Core Skills

Employer: The Switch Charity Ltd, London E1

Contact Name: Megan Hunter

Email Address for Applications: megan.hunter@theswitch.org

Salary: 32,000

Start date: ASAP - preferably by mid October 2025

This is a one year contract, with possibility of extension based on good performance and funding.

It is company policy to offer an initial 12 month contract for all roles, before making them a permanent role.

This is a full-time role, but we would consider 4 days/week applications too.

Description of The Switch

We're The Switch, a pioneering charity driving change within education to empower children and young people to dream big and achieve their aspirations.

With more than 30 years of experience behind us, we're focused and committed to helping our local East London community boost career options for young people and ensure that every child reaches their best future.

The Role

As a Project Manager for Financial Literacy and Core Skills, you will provide learning activities and workshops to young people mainly within primary schools (Key Stage 2), and occasionally to secondary schools and sixth forms.

Delivering engaging sessions, you will help to raise young peoples' confidence in money-management skills, literacy, numeracy, and support them in learning about the world of work.

You will also work with business volunteers from The City and Canary Wharf area, who support the workshops through their experience, advice, and guidance.

As Project Manager you will be responsible for the coordination of the schemes, liaising with schools and business coordinators. You will be comfortable with setting up a project, monitoring and troubleshooting, and reporting back on its success. You will use a variety of databases and online systems to support project coordination.

We anticipate that roughly 30% of your time will be spent delivering sessions in classrooms, and the remaining 70% will be spent managing the project systems, schools and volunteers.

About You

- At least three years' experience of working with young people (8-13 years old), teaching or facilitating highly engaging and impactful training, workshops, and programmes
- A background working with young people in one or more of the following roles: teacher, coach, mentor, youth worker, facilitator, trainer or events leader
- A track record of creating captivating lesson/workshop content, associated resources, and training materials/plans, using the principles of experiential learning
- Confidence in online conferencing platforms to virtually deliver interactive workshop content
- Confident and engaging public speaker; able to present complex information in a simple, concise way
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to foster positive relationships with young people, teachers, business volunteers and colleagues
- Familiarity with education and knowledge of employability skills
- An understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities
- IT literate with experience of Microsoft Office and other platforms to deliver engaging content

- Experience working with and facilitating adult volunteers during workshops or in a classroom is desirable

- Knowledge of Corporate Social Responsibility is desirable
- Knowledge of the local Tower Hamlets area is desirable

This role will require an enhanced DBS check. We operate a safer recruitment policy and we will check on multiple references before employment starts.

Additional Information

We welcome applications from candidates who may need reasonable adjustments either at interview or in the workplace.

The deadline for applications is 6pm on Monday 29th September.

All applications must include a CV and a covering letter of maximum 2 sides of A4 explaining how you fit the person specification in "About You" description. These must be sent to: Megan.Hunter@theswitch.org

We encourage early applications due to the short timeline.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 32,000.00 per year

Expected hours: 34 per week

Benefits:

Additional leave Casual dress Cycle to work scheme Enhanced maternity leave Paid volunteer time Private medical insurance Sick pay Store discount
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London E1 6BD