Enabling Enterprise - Education Associate London

Education Associate
Opportunities in London
Introduction
Are you an outstanding teacher, who wants to transform children and young people’s
readiness for real life?
Enabling Enterprise is an award-winning social enterprise. Our mission is to ensure that one
day, all students leave school equipped with the skills, experiences and aspirations to
succeed – beyond just a set of qualifications. We do this through creating innovative
educational programmes for schools that introduce new, more enterprising teaching
approaches. Our work is reinforced and supported by more than 70 top businesses including
PwC, BT, London City Airport and Virgin Active.
We are looking for a self-starter with an entrepreneurial outlook, comfortable working with
students and presenting to school leaders, with a passion for education. We want someone
who will be dedicated to building and maintaining relationships with our schools, and
supporting them to make our programmes transformational for their children. To build
credibility, we are looking for evidence of outstanding teaching practice in a primary or
secondary school in the UK, and subject specialism is not important.
This is a key post in the development of Enabling Enterprise as we work towards our goal of
working with 50,000 students across the UK in 2015. Currently, we have programmes
involving over 40,000 students running across the country, mainly in London and
Birmingham. We are positioned for rapid growth, and have just started our national roll-out,
starting with our Birmingham office opening last year, and Manchester office opening in
August.
In our established London office you can expect to be part of an inspiring team, and benefit
from opportunities for rapid growth, development and challenge.
If you’re looking for your next role and want to help transform education in England, we want
to hear from you.
Terms & Conditions:
Salary: £28,020-£32,040 subject to review in 12 months + Training Budget
Start Date: 17th August 2015
Working hours: 40 hours per week, although due to working with schools occasional early
starts and evening work will be needed.
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Holidays: 25 days per year, plus bank holidays
Contract length: Initially 2 years, probationary period of 6 months
Key Responsibilities:
(1) Programme Delivery
● Building excellent relationships with a cluster of schools
● Ensuring top quality delivery of programmes to schools in the region
○ Liaising with schools and teachers
○ Organising and delivering teacher training
○ Helping schools to adapt programmes to their requirements
○ Organising and delivering student trips to our business partners
● Supporting strong partnerships with business supporters
(2) New school engagement
● Promoting our programmes to new schools
● Recruiting schools to take up our programmes to fulfil our ambitions to reach more
students each year
● Supporting us in building up our national profile and communications
(3) Programme Development
● We develop all our programmes in-house, so there will be opportunities to be involved in
this creative process.
● We are also committed to the continuous improvement of our work to ensure that every
student has gets a transformational impact out of their programmes.
Key Skills and Attributes:
● Outstanding Teaching: Above all, you will be able to quickly build credibility with the
teachers and Headteachers we work with, so we are looking for evidence of outstanding
teaching experience.
● Passion for Learning: You will be someone who loves learning and working with
children and young people, with a passion for innovative education practice, and always
trying to improve your own teaching.
● Relationship Building: We are looking for experience of being able to build and
manage relationships, and an aptitude for being able to engage new schools with our
programmes. This will help you to build the close partnerships we need to support our
schools into delivering more enterprising learning.
● Organisational Skills: This role requires the management of a full and varied workload,
and you need to be someone who gets stuff done – on time, and to exacting standards.
This includes organising trips for students to visit businesses, teacher training and
managing multiple school relationships.
● Self-Motivation and Ownership: You will thrive on responsibility, and taking ownership
of your work. You will enjoy achieving ambitious targets and taking the lead on new
innovations.
● Potential for Leadership: As a highly ambitious social enterprise, EE can only grow as
fast as it can recruit and retain the most talented team. We need people who want to
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push themselves to grow and develop into leaders – whether becoming line managers,
coaches, expert teachers, or advocates of our work.
Application Process:
● Applications should include both a CV and Covering Letter and be sent by email to
[email protected]
Your covering letter of up to 2 pages should cover the following points:
 Your motivation for applying for this role
 Your relevant skills and experiences against the specification above (Outstanding
Teaching; Passion for Learning; Relationship Building; Organisational Skills; SelfMotivation & Ownership; Potential for Leadership)
● Confirmation that you would be able to take up the role from 17th August 2015.
● Whether you are applying for a position based in London or Birmingham.
This round of applications ends at 9am on 22nd April 2015 with interviews taking place:
 In London on the 29th and 30th April.
 In Birmingham on the 1st May.
If invited to this stage, you will be informed by the 23rd April.
Enabling Enterprise is an equal opportunities employer, and actively encourages
applications from any qualified individuals.
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