Vacancies

As a Recruitment Associate, you’ll play a key role in delivering our recruitment activity at a range of university campuses. You’ll be responsible for identifying and compelling talented students to apply to our programmes, meeting ambitious targets through adapting and delivering our recruitment strategy to a consistently high level. You’ll work as part of a high performing, close-knit team, sharing new ideas and feedback to ensure the wider team achieve collective goals and targets. In return, we’ll make sure that you’re able to develop your skills and receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues in recruitment.

As Head of Networks, you’ll consider how to help people organise across multiple dimensions— their locality, profession, personal background, or specific professional challenge— so there is a community of support around every Teach First programme member, ambassador, and school.

As the Relationship Manager for Philanthropy, you will play a crucial role working with colleagues and champions to grow our network of major donors. You will be responsible for identifying people who are passionate about education and should be supporting Teach First. You will work closely with the wider team to steward existing donors contributing to philanthropy income target of £3 million for 2021-2022.

As Contact Centre Coordinator, you will join a busy team working at pace within this function. You will play a key role in processing and answering questions from our teaching and school-based audiences, enabling them to access information to support their work with us. You will provide efficient and effective customer service, working with our external audiences and internal colleagues to ensure each query is answered on time, and correctly.

You’ll embrace a flexible, agile approach to your work, proactively lending support on key tasks and activities in line with changing team needs. Your work will make a real impact across a busy team.

The Programme Delivery Directorate is responsible for the large-scale delivery of all Teach First’s programmes at a national and local level, ensuring high quality delivery with optimum efficiency. Delivery Operations makes sure functional roles are prepared for delivery through communications, collaboration, and training strategy.

As Delivery Training Officer, you will ensure role groups have the skills and capabilities they need to maximise their performance and productivity. We are looking for two new Delivery Training Officers – 1x permanent and 1x fixed-term contract.

As Evaluation Officer your work will primarily be focused on supporting the evaluation of Teach First’s teacher development programmes, specifically our flagship initial teacher Training Programme, our pilot Time to Teach initial teacher training programme for career changers, and our new Early Career Teacher Programme. Over 5000 trainees and early career teachers on these programmes benefit from our training and support each year.

As Executive Director for Programme Development, an expert in teacher education and leadership development, you’ll build and enhance a coherent suite of programmes to deliver the Teach First mission. You’ll ensure they are compelling, transformational, contractually compliant, and internally viable. As a member of the Teach First Executive Team, you’ll also contribute to the leadership of the organisation.

As Head of Relationship Marketing, you will lead a brilliant team of expert marketers and communicators to engage teachers and schools in Teach First and our fight to make our education system work for every child. You will oversee campaigns that secure the long-term engagement, loyalty and custom of our school partners and Delivery Partners who work with us to deliver teacher development and leadership programmes. You will use this engagement to land successful attraction marketing campaigns that spark interest in our programme offerings and oversee all the communications touchpoints that follow, converting school customers to long-term partners along the way.

As Recruitment Officer (Applications), you will be the sole point of contact for a designated geographical region or group of universities. You will be responsible for getting applicants to open and submit applications, whilst providing support and guidance throughout an applicant’s journey to ensure they start the Teach First Training Programme. We are recruiting for two new Recruitment Officers to join our Experienced Hires Team. Please note that the team is based in the West Midlands and travel to the Birmingham Office is required for induction and training, meetings as well as team and department days

As the Prospect Research & Insight Officer you will play a key role in building strong prospect pipelines by producing timely and focused reactive and proactive research profiles to support all four fundraising teams (Corporate, Philanthropy, Trusts, and Events).

You will display a consistent ability to proficiently use contextual information to input into opportunities at all stages in the cultivation cycle, and your proactive prospect research skills will be fundamental in identifying new business opportunities and leads for income teams. You will also champion the due diligence process, facilitating Senior Leadership Team decision making, protecting Teach First from potential reputational risk.

As Development Lead, you’ll have a designated portfolio of trainees and will work closely with the schools they are placed in, as well as their university tutors and school mentors. Your work will see them grow into leaders, committed to making a difference to educational inequality.

As First Line IT Service Desk Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting our technology products. You will work on delivering excellent support for exciting, transformative cloud based technology products, while adhering to agreed service level agreements with both internal and external customers. You will be primarily working on our busy service desk, answering queries via phone, email, instant message and via tickets, from our wide range of managed support customers.

As New Corporate Partnerships - Senior Lead, you will play a crucial role in leading on our work to win new partnerships for Teach First, contributing to the team’s overall target of £4.65m (FY 21/22). You will collaborate across the wider team and organisation to produce compelling propositions and engagement opportunities to inspire and engage new prospects. You will lead a team to identify, cultivate and secure major, multi-year strategic partners with businesses in a range of sectors. You will also work closely with the Head of Corporate Partnerships to plan and implement a New Partnerships Strategy to secure growth for the long term.

An experienced project manager and fundraiser with a talent for building great relationships internally and externally, you’re passionate about delivering memorable events that are high on engagement and energy. This job is perfect for someone who loves the combination of creativity and organisation that high-profile events require. You will have experience of growing income from an events portfolio and will have new ideas to bring to Teach First.

As Fundraising Events Manager, working with senior stakeholders (members of the Executive Team and Board) you’ll manage key relationships and will lead on the planning, marketing, and delivery of our events portfolio.

As Schools Partnerships Coordinator, you’ll play a vital role in finding employment for our trainees in schools in Birmingham and the surrounding areas. You’ll provide administrative, data and logistical support to the School Partnership team, facilitating effective and efficient ways of working. You’ll provide schools and other stakeholders with outstanding customer service. You’ll develop effective communications with schools, enabling them to get the most from our programmes.