Current job opportunities at Schoolreaders
To apply for any of the below positions, please download the job application form using the links, and email it along with a copy of your c.v and cover letter to: apply@schoolreaders.org
Regional Recruitment Coordinator
Place of work: Office based in Bedford, with occasional travel to volunteer and community events and schools. Option for flexible working.
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm with 30-minute lunch break
Reporting to: Senior Operations Coordinator
Salary Range: 23,500 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Role Description:
An exciting opportunity to become part of the operations team at Schoolreaders, a small, young, and fast-growing charity that is expanding to help more children learn to read across the country. The Schoolreaders operations team recruits volunteers from local communities and matches them to a primary school where they listen to children read on a one-to-one basis. We support over 27,000 children in over 1,300 schools every week with a Schoolreaders volunteer.
We are looking for a committed individual to join Schoolreaders to be part of the team delivering this vital support to children, with the aim of supporting 35,000 children by the end of 2024/25. This role is to recruit primary schools and corresponding targeted volunteers in specific counties.
This is an exciting role and includes a wide range of opportunities. Your skills and experience will reflect volunteer and customer service ability, presenting skills, excellent organisational skills, a strong familiarity with telephone and on-line communication with the public and excellent spoken and written English. You need to be competent with Excel and IT generally and it would be an advantage to have experience with the Salesforce CRM system. A background in the education sector would also be beneficial.
Main purpose and scope of the job:
To be one of three roles that co-ordinate the volunteer and school targeted recruitment for Schoolreaders in England. This role will be focused on recruitment in counties across the Midlands, South and East of England.
This includes working with the county ambassador volunteers who recruit volunteers locally and the operations team to support volunteers through the process. Schoolreaders currently has 2,700 volunteers in school.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
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Recruit schools within specific counties with particular focus on areas with the biggest need as per KPI’s.
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Recruit volunteers in specific areas within counties for schools as per annual targets and work to retain existing volunteers.
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Proactively look for innovative ways to increase volunteer and school applications.
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Support the county volunteer teams to recruit volunteers in targeted areas.
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Build strong relationships with partner schools to develop on-going partnerships ensuring more volunteers are placed and retained by the school and more children reached.
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Research, engage and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders, including education organisations, multi-academy trusts, local authorities, and other organisations such as community groups to recruit both schools and volunteers in targeted areas.
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Arrange and chair occasional meetings for community groups and volunteers.
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Actively promote the volunteering opportunity through events both online and in-person. Attend in-person events where you will present and recruit volunteers and attend school recruitment opportunities as required. Occasionally these may be in the evenings.
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Plan and run campaigns and use social media to recruit volunteers.
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Produce regular county reports and project updates against targets.
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Identify relevant local media and liaise with the communications manager re placing articles as directed.
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Collaborate with the fundraising team to support at events and ensure opportunities for corporate, community and individual relationships are maximised.
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Follow the operations systems and procedures. Support the operations team during peak times with volunteer interviews and engagement.
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Any other operational duties as requested by the Schoolreaders team.
Essential skills:
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Confident presenting to a variety of audiences
• Friendly and professional telephone manner
• Strong administrative skills
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office Suite, in particular Excel and reporting
• Initiative and the ability to be tenacious when required
• Reliable and able to work on your own initiative
• Strong research and analytical skills
• Good time management and ability to prioritise tasks
• Understanding of the important role of volunteers
• Willing to undertake a full DBS check
Desirable skills:
• Experience of co-ordinating volunteers
• CRM Experience, i.e., Salesforce
• Previous experience working in an educational environment
• Social media experience
What we offer:
Employee assistance programme. Training and development opportunities. The opportunity to change children’s life chances through your work. Travel allowance, Staff away days, flexible working.
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews offered, on an ongoing basis. We reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date should a suitable applicant be found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Further details including the job description and an application form can be found here. To apply to this role please contact apply@schoolreaders.org.
Schoolreaders is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and requires staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a basic disclosure check of unspent criminal convictions.
For the purposes of recruitment, we will store your data for up to 30 days before destroying it unless we invite you to interview.
Schoolreaders is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and requires staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a basic disclosure check of unspent criminal convictions.
If you are appointed to a role within Schoolreaders you will be subject to the organisation's Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find by clicking here.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, either at application or interview please contact us via apply@schoolreaders.org
Literacy Charity Operations Coordinator
Place of work: Office based in Bedford
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm with 30-minute lunch break
Reporting to: Senior Operations Coordinator
Salary Range: £23,500 per annum
Contract: Permanent
Role Description:
An exciting opportunity to become part of the operations team at Schoolreaders, a small, young, and fast-growing charity that is expanding to help more children learn to read across the country. The Schoolreaders operations team recruits volunteers from local communities and matches them to a primary school where they listen to children read on a one-to-one basis. We support over 27,000 children in over 1,300 schools every week with a Schoolreaders volunteer.
The core of the operation is recruiting volunteers in target areas for specific schools. The operations team then process the volunteer and school applicants, match the volunteer to the best-fit school, and then there is ongoing management of, and communication with the volunteers and schools. Our aim is to make a real difference to the state of literacy in the UK. One in four children are leaving primary school not able to read to the expected standard.
Your skills and experience will reflect customer service ability, excellent organisational skills, a strong familiarity with telephone and on-line communication with the public, and excellent spoken and written English. You need to be competent with Excel and IT generally and it would be an advantage to have experience with the Salesforce CRM system.
Main purpose and scope of the job:
To work within a small team to deliver the operations side of Schoolreaders on a daily basis. This includes interviewing the volunteers, matching them to partner schools using an on-line CRM system, dealing with enquiries and school follow-ups to ensure a seamless experience for both the volunteer and the school.
The operations coordinators are responsible for all operational duties associated with the Schoolreaders charity including general enquiries, application processing and partner management. This is an office-based role.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
• Follow the operations systems and procedures
• General Enquiries
• Application Processing
• Telephone Interviews
• E-mail inbox management and prioritisation
• Resolve school / volunteer enquiries and complaints
• Partner management, reporting and communications
• Schools research and contact
• Mail merges and partner surveys
• Any other operational duties as requested by the Schoolreaders team
What we offer:
Employee assistance programme. Training and development opportunities. The opportunity to change children’s life chances through your work. Travel allowance, Staff away days, flexible working.
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews offered, on an ongoing basis. We reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date should a suitable applicant be found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Further details including the job description and an application form can be found here. To apply to this role please contact apply@schoolreaders.org.
Schoolreaders is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and requires staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a basic disclosure check of unspent criminal convictions.
For the purposes of recruitment, we will store your data for up to 30 days before destroying it unless we invite you to interview.
Schoolreaders is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and requires staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a basic disclosure check of unspent criminal convictions.
If you are appointed to a role within Schoolreaders you will be subject to the organisation's Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find by clicking here.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, either at application or interview please contact us via apply@schoolreaders.org
Senior Trusts Fundraiser
Place of work: Flexible, partly home-based and Bedford Office (hybrid)
Hours of work: 21 - 24 hours per week
Reporting to: Head of Fundraising and Communications
Salary Range: £37,500-£40,500 FTE (will be pro rata depending on contracted hours)
Contract: Permanent or Freelance
Role Overview:
We are looking for an experienced and creative Trusts and Foundations fundraiser with a proven track record and excellent research, grant-writing and communication skills.
Role Description:
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled Trust and Foundations fundraiser to make a real impact on a dynamic, rapidly growing child literacy charity. Joining a high performing and well-established Trust Fundraising Team, you’ll help maintain and develop an ambitious strategy to ensure that all opportunities for approaching and securing increased funding from trusts, foundations and other grant making bodies are maximised.
Main Duties:
- To work collaboratively with the Trust Fundraising Team on an annual work plan meeting targets and milestones, prioritising workload and planning activity.
- Manage your own portfolio of trust supporters and prospects, involving a methodical approach to existing, lapsed and new funders delivering creative and engaging proposals that meet the objectives of each funder.
- To research, identify and evaluate new sources of grant-funding, including national and regional grants to help deliver agreed income targets.
- Maintain effective monitoring and reporting of bids, fundraising processes and performance, including tracking and recording of income using Sales Force CRM and other systems as required.
- To work with other members of the Schoolreaders team, including our volunteer County Teams, to maximise opportunities for fundraising from trusts and grant-makers.
- Attend internal meetings, reporting on progress of prospect pipeline and liaising with colleagues to ensure monitoring and delivery of funders’ requirements.
- Deliver excellent personalised stewardship, including attending stewardship events as required and taking an active role in developing relationships with supporters.
Personal Specification
• Ability to write engaging and persuasive applications and proposals to the highest standard.
• Work under your own initiative to prioritise and manage varied tasks.
• Results-orientated with experience of tracking & reporting income.
• Proven ability to work with others in a team.
• Proven experience of meeting deadlines.
• Proactive and highly motivated, with excellent organisational skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills with an ability to write compelling, informative bids and reports.
• Fully computer and IT literate with good knowledge of Excel and CRM databases.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
To apply:
Applications will be reviewed, and interviews offered, on an ongoing basis. We reserve the right to close the role prior to the closing date should a suitable applicant be found, so please submit your application as soon as possible. To apply for this role, please email your CV and cover letter, incorporating a supporting statement to Jane Foy, Head of Fundraising and Communications: j.foy@schoolreaders.org
Schoolreaders is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people and requires staff to share this commitment. This post is subject to a range of vetting checks including a basic disclosure check of unspent criminal convictions.
For the purposes of recruitment, we will store your data for up to 30 days before destroying it unless we invite you to interview.
If you are appointed to a role within Schoolreaders you will be subject to the organisation's Code of Conduct, a copy of which you can find by clicking here.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, either at application or interview please contact us via apply@schoolreaders.org