You will be taking up a fixed-term role as Interim Centre Leader at our IntoUniversity centre in Coventry.

To lead the staff team at the centre, generating a positive and inclusive working environment and ethos and ensuring that the team are well motivated, are managing their workloads effectively, and are providing a high quality service. This will
involve:

• Acting as direct line-manager for the staff in your centre.
• Working with your line manager and the HR team to support staff in your centre to thrive in role, including
  implementing reasonable adjustments
• Ensuring that the ethos and values of the charity are maintained in the IntoUniversity centre.
• Acting as the Centre’s Designated Safeguarding Officer (full training and support will be provided to become the Designated Safeguarding Officer).
• Creating and overseeing relationships with local education providers.

To oversee the successful delivery of our educational programme at the centre using positive behaviour management and adhering to the IntoUniversity safeguarding policy. Including:

• Managing the centre delivery timetable, taking responsibility for leading and delivering (with help from the IntoUniversity Education Workers) the after-school Academic Support programme, including: leading and managing staff and tutors;
• recruiting and leading volunteers; liaising with university partners; publicity; taking responsibility for organising the classroom; maintaining the good behaviour of users; implementing IntoUniversity’s positive behaviour management policy; developing new resources.
• Assisting fully with the organisation and high-quality delivery of the Primary and Secondary FOCUS programme, supporting the IntoUniversity Education Workers with responsibility for these strands.
• Assisting fully with the organisation and high-quality delivery of the Mentoring Programme, supporting the IntoUniversity Education Worker with responsibility for this strand.
• Taking responsibility, working with the support of your line manager, to ensure that the high quality of the educational programme is maintained, centre targets are reached and that the pastoral needs of the children and young people are met.
• Taking the lead in working with your line manager and the IntoUniversity Education Workers to recruit children and young people to all strands of the programme.
• Liaising with your line manager to plan project delivery over the academic year and to take the lead in working with the IntoUniversity Education Workers to liaise with existing schools and other partner bodies, including corporates, universities and other voluntary sector bodies.

• Have completed an undergraduate degree to a 2.2 or higher.
• Have achieved a grade C/ grade 4 or higher in GCSE Maths and English/ achieved National 5s or Standard
  Grade at Credit level (grades 1-2) in Maths and English (or equivalent).
• Have a minimum of 2 years full-time paid or voluntary experience working with children and young people,
  either at IntoUniversity, or external organisations, or a combination of both. Please note that we will not take
  part-time, seasonal or ad-hoc work into account when calculating the length of full-time experience.
• Have the right to work in the UK (please note that as a charity we do not have the capacity to sponsor work
  visas).
• Be able to apply knowledge of F.E. and H.E. (such as UCAS applications) to help young people decide about their futures; and have knowledge of national developments in H.E. and their impact on young people traditionally underrepresented in H.E.
• Have experience of confidently negotiating with a variety of stakeholders, for example: head teachers,
  funders, universities.