About The Role
For informal enquiries, please contact Ellie Frankel (Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Officer) at [Confidential Information].
As a Projects Coordinator for ThinkHigher, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining effective and regular communication between our partners, including Coventry University, the University of Warwick, North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, Warwickshire College Group, Coventry City Council, Warwickshire County Council (including the virtual schools), and the Career and Enterprise Company. This role ensures a continuous flow of information about project activities and partner obligations.
You will also develop and implement strategies for effective communication and dissemination for the ThinkHigher partnership. This involves creating and managing website content and drafting written material for online publication. Additionally, you will coordinate events on behalf of the partnership, managing complex activities involving multiple partners and school and college outreach events, as well as travel bookings for ThinkHigher colleagues and partners attending these events.
Active partnerships with colleagues at identified schools and colleges are essential to maintaining and raising the profile of the partnership with key stakeholders. You will take responsibility, overseen by the Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Officer to carry out effective financial monitoring of the project's operating budgets. This includes analysing financial data, providing reports and expenditure forecasts, proposing solutions to financial issues, advising on various options in conjunction with colleagues, processing travel claim forms, producing purchase requisitions, and authorizing purchase invoices in compliance with university financial procedures.
Managing administrative HR issues for the project is another critical aspect of the role. This includes overseeing recruitment and associated paperwork and liaising with the university's HR department and internal recruitment agency UniTemps as needed, such as hiring student ambassadors and event workers. You will develop and maintain appropriate databases and spreadsheets to support effective targeting, monitoring, and evaluation of partnership activities and prepare reports based on this data for internal and external stakeholders.
Additionally, you will keep abreast of developments and activities across the national Uni Connect community, and contribute to national dialogues and the development of best practices. Cooperation with other widening participation colleagues and performing general office duties and event preparation for project needs are also essential components of this role.
This role will require a enhanced DBS check with child's barred list
We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
About You
We are looking for a proactive, highly motivated individual who is able to work creatively using their own initiative and who can work at pace when necessary. An experienced communicator, collaborator and coordinator who engages positively with young people, team members, partners and stakeholders.
We want our workforce to represent the diversity of the people and communities we support. We also want our workplace to be one where different experiences, expertise and perspectives are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to grow and develop. Studies show that some people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within ThinkHigher.
All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview; we welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.
ThinkHigher is committed to safeguarding children, young people and adults who we work with. We believe that all children and adults everywhere in the world deserve to live in safe environments and have the right to be protected from all forms of abuse, maltreatment and exploitation as set out in article 19, UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) 1989. Appointment to positions where there is direct involvement with vulnerable groups will be dependent on thorough checks being completed; these will include qualification checks, reference checks, identity & criminal record checks in line with legal requirements.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
About The Department
ThinkHigher aims to:
- Contribute to reducing the gap in higher education participation.
- Equip young and adult learners from underrepresented groups to make an informed choice about their future options.
- Support a strategic local infrastructure of universities, colleges and other partners.
- Contribute to a stronger evidence base around what works in higher education outreach and strengthen evaluation practice across the sector.
- Align their work with the Careers and Enterprise Company in their mission is to help every young person to find their best next step.
ThinkHigher strives to be inclusive and welcoming, creating safe spaces for colleagues and students to thrive in, embedding anti-racist approaches and providing a powerful voice to underrepresented young people who are at the heart of what we do. We are conscious of systemic barriers to equality of opportunity and seek to break these down, evaluate robustly and promote best practice. We believe in social equality and draw from the lived experiences of our young people along with a range of partnership networks to contribute towards a fairer, more equitable society.
Our Flexible Working Environment Encourages Autonomy, Mastery And a Shared Sense Of Purpose, Allowing For Some Home Working Whilst Maintaining a Strong Teamworking Ethic. We Foster a Sense Of Belonging And Shared Understanding Within Our Projects, With Our Work Being Underpinned By The Following Values
Togetherness: working together with our students, our schools, our partners and our team to help our students believe in themselves.
Empowerment: recognising the potential in all, supporting everyone to recognise it in themselves and encouraging everyone to set goals and achieve their aspirations.
Authenticity: being open and honest, respecting and accepting everyone for who they are and valuing each unique individual while encouraging those around us to do the same.
For further information about The Education Group, please visit our website.
About The University
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We're one of the world's top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be world leading or internationally excellent**.
You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.
- QS World University Rankings 2024
- Research Excellence Framework 2021
To find out more about us visit our website.
How to Apply
CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 24 July 2024 at 11.55pm
To apply, please click Apply below and submit an application form by the closing date. Please plan for any potential delays as
you will not be able to submit an application past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 11.30pm).
Please attach a CV and cover letter.
- Your CV should include your most recent employment experience, any other relevant experience, and education history.
- Your cover letter must detail how you meet each of the essential criteria found in the Job Description document below (desirable criteria too, where possible).
Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We
highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and giving examples below, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.
To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications via our official website, warwick-careers.tal.net.
Interview Date: W/C 19 August 2025.
Start Date: TBC
What we Offer
We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 26 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here.
We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Warwick is committedto building an organisation ofmutual respectanddignity, promoting awelcoming, diverse, and inclusive workingand learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to berecognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpageshere.
The University currently holds aRace Equality Charter Bronze Award,Athena Swan Sliver Awardand aDisability Smart Bronze Award.The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of theEUTOPIA European University Alliance.
Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)
The University of Warwick complies with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes not to discriminate unfairly against anyone who makes a Disclosure relating to a conviction or other information revealed. More information is available on the University's Vacancy pages and applicants may request a copy of the DBS Code of Practice.
Job Description
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