Contract Type: Maternity Cover 12 months

Hours: Full Time, 35 hours per week

Closing Date: 23:59 on Sunday 22nd September 2024

Salary: £38,000.00 to £42,000.00 dependent on location and experience (If national, salary up to £38,000 and if London based, salary will be up to £42,000)

Location: Flexible 

Interviews: Week commencing 30th September 2024

King’s Trust International (KTI) are looking for an experienced education advisor to lead on the development of and implementation of KTI’s best practice education approaches

Since our inception in 2015, we’ve supported over 20,000 young people to learn, work and thrive through our programmes. Our programmes and interventions are now present in 13 countries, across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Europe.

The successful candidate will be an expert in educational pedagogy with deep experience in human-centered design, with a desire to get stuck in and work with our regional teams to generate ideas and solutions to improve the educational experience for young people and teachers in the countries that we work in.

You will be an organised project manager and strategic thinker, able to lead colleagues in service design projects, and work logically with fundraising teams to develop robust education proposals.

You will have experience of designing and operationalising education strategies at organisational and service levels.

You will work within a creative and strategic team with plenty of opportunity to learn and contribute to activity across the organisation. 

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Perks for working at The King’s Trust International:

• Great holiday package. 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus public holidays. Office closure the days between Christmas and New Year
• Fantastic Family leave. Receive 13 weeks full pay and 13 weeks half pay for maternity and adoption leave and pro rata entitlement for shared parental leave. Receive 8 weeks full pay for paternity leave.
• Flexible and agile working. Where operationally possible, you can work your hours that support a work-life balance including compressed hours and hybrid-working (part office - part home based) or working from home options.
• Benefits platform. Everything from health and financial wellbeing support to discounts on your favourite restaurants, shops and cinemas
• A free employee assistance programme (EAP) to support your mental wellbeing.
• PTI will contribute 5% of your salary to the workplace Pension Scheme
• Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
• In-house and external training opportunities available throughout the year

The King's Trust International is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment, we undertake basic disclosure checks (or international equivalents) in accordance with the Codes of Practice for all roles within Prince’s Trust International, and for our roles working directly with young people, at an enhanced level. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants.

In further support of a Safeguarding First approach we are signatories to the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. The Scheme facilitates the sharing of misconduct data between employers. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her/their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

We are committed to equitable work practices and believe in building a diverse organisation that is representative of and responsive to the needs of our young people and stakeholders. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, Mixed and other Ethnic candidates which are currently under-represented throughout Prince’s Trust International. As a disability confident employer, we will interview applicants that meet the essential criteria who have declared a disability. Please let us know if you need any adjustments at the interview stage.

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Req ID: 3149