Local recruitment: STEM Education Coordinator

Job Purpose

Job Title: STEM Education Coordinator

Advertised Salary: £33,000

Location: Work from home

We are the charity who look after and bring to life 2,000 miles of waterways across England and Wales, because we believe that life is better by water. Every role across the Trust plays its part in transforming our canals and rivers into spaces where local people want to spend time and feel better, bringing wellbeing benefits to millions.

We currently have an opportunity for a STEM Education Coordinator to join our organisation. The canals and rivers of our network demonstrate some remarkable feats of engineering and everyday examples of how STEM subjects apply to real life. We wish to use these examples to deliver a high-quality learning programme to inspire children and young people to develop new skills, improve their confidence and foster an interest in engineering, the environment and science.  We can build a new generation of supporters for the Trust and help to guarantee the future of our canals and rivers by helping more young people consider STEM as part of their future.

Key actions including working with teachers and young people to re-design our STEM learning offer, developing funding applications to fund our programme, working with our corporate partners, recruiting teams of volunteers to deliver learning, supporting colleagues to become STEM ambassadors and working to embed this learning programme within the Trust.

This role requires an Enhanced level DBS to check, so you must be willing to undertake this level of check if successful.

Knowledge, Skills/Qualifications & Experience

Skills, knowledge & experience: 

To engage children and young people in the canals and rivers of England and Wales through learning focussed on engineering, the environment and science. 

1. To inspire children and young people to consider a STEM based career, to help tackle the skills shortage and inequality within UK organisations such as the Trust. 
2. To encourage teachers to participate in our learning programmes and to increase appreciation of the Trust as a learning provider by delivering a high-quality programme.
3. To better meet the needs and aspirations of our core audience of children & young people and their teachers and leaders.
4. To expand our audience and provide life enhancing volunteering opportunities for young people.
5. To better understand the overall impacts of the Trust’s STEM programme. The programme aims to facilitate career pathways into STEM related fields particularly for young people underrepresented in these labour market sectors.
6. To contribute to the Trust’s brand values and help convey the Trust as an organisation worthy of support.
7. To oversee and support colleagues and partner organisations in the development and delivery of externally funded learning programmes.
8. To manage staff, volunteers and contractors delivering the learning programme.
9. To ensure all our learning activity conforms to the Trust’s and other relevant policies including health & safety, safeguarding children, environmental and heritage policies.

Skills and experience

Essential:

1. Comprehensive understanding of current volunteer and education policies and practice.
2. Direct experience of volunteer management, especially training and mentoring of children & young people.
3. Excellent written and oral presentation skills.
4. Effective time and resource management.
5. Ability to communicate effectively with children, their teachers, young people, families, carers and group leaders.
6. Direct experience of developing externally funded projects.

Desirable:

1. Experience of speaking/writing on the subject of learning and volunteering within a STEM environment.
2. Knowledge of the engineering significance of waterways.
3. Experience of using the internet as a communication medium.
4. Capable of evaluating, recording and reporting performance in a standardised and accurate manner.

What We Offer

In addition to your annual salary, we also offer a competitive contributory Defined Contribution (DC) Pension scheme arrangement, and numerous other employee benefits, including several salary sacrifice benefits we are also open to flexible working arrangements. These include:

• Competitive contributory DC Pension scheme arrangement, where we will double your contribution to a maximum of 10%.
• 25 days paid holiday (plus paid Bank Holidays), increasing to 30 days after 5 years.
• Annual £200 personal learning & growth award to spend on any learning related activity.
• Free access to specialist counselling on a range of issues, e.g. health, financial, well-being and domestic matters.
• Access to a range of employee benefits including store discounts, boating holiday discounts and holiday purchase scheme.
• 2 days paid volunteering leave per annum, allowing you to volunteer for a local community project you are passionate about.
• Free fishing facilities across our canal network.

At the Trust we care passionately for our waterways, and as importantly, for those who look after and use them. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce brings with it a diversity of ideas, thinking and ways of working which enhances what we do as a Trust. We are striving to represent the diverse communities that we are a part of and welcome applicants from across all sectors of the community.

All candidates will be treated on the basis of their merits, skills and abilities and solely by being assessed against the requirements for the job.

When you join the Canal & River Trust you become a member of an engaged team working to preserve our heritage for future generations. Come and share your passion and knowledge with a team that makes a difference to millions of people every day.

Find our more about us on our website:  https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/about-us