An exciting opportunity has arisen for a University Access Officer to join a fantastic education charity based in the West Midlands.
Salary: £24,570
Job Location: 2 days in a school in Wednesbury, 2 days in a school in Cradley Heath and Fridays working from home.
The charity’s mission is to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access top universities, through a unique combination of tuition and in-school mentoring. The University Access Officer mentors students, delivering group workshops, mentoring and coaching them on how to access and transition to university.
This is an exciting opportunity to foster mentoring relationships with students who will likely be encountering such support for the first time. The University Access Officer is in a position to open up a world of opportunities to the students which is extremely rewarding.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Engaging with students in school and enrolling them onto the programme
2. Matching students with volunteer tutors
3. Monitoring student attendance to tutorials and devising innovative solutions to encourage attendance
4. Assessing student progress towards being able to make successful university applications
5. Uploading information onto the Salesforce database (training is provided)
6. Building and mana...