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Education Coordinator, Community Development
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,500 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2025 |
| Location: | South East England, UK |
| Remote working: | Fully remote |
| Company: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JR165 |
Summary
We're seeking a dynamic Education Coordinator to champion early career teachers, support education projects in the South East of England and transform how chemistry is taught in classrooms across the nation.
This role will require extensive travel in the South East of England; visiting schools, working with members, meeting stakeholders and attending events. This may involve weekends and non-core working hours.
Key Responsibilities
- Project management of projects under the education community development programme aiming to support the proposition for student and early career teachers, including:
Research, design and implementation of projects to support student and trainee teachers, and early career teachers to become confident classroom practitioners.
Coordinating our national and local student and trainee teacher offering to ensure consistency
Supporting student and trainee teachers, including development and delivery of online sessions and establishing networks
Acting as an advocate for best practice for early career teachers, providing guidance and advice to colleagues and partners to improve the impact and outcomes of our services
- Manage and develop networks and partnerships with other organisations who share our aims to support early career teachers of chemistry.
- Research, design and deliver professional development and learning experiences for audiences targeted by the Education Communities Development programme using both digital channels and face to face events.
- Manage and develop professional development and learning projects focussed on audiences targeted by the Education Communities Development programme.
- Undertake regular research and use analytics to monitor levels of engagement and satisfaction of target audiences within the Education Communities Development programme, using these insights to develop coherent support that optimises the value of our investment whilst growing impact and customer satisfaction
Delivery of key projects on a local basis including:
- Introducing our support to teachers at the start of their career through delivering sessions to student and trainee teachers.
- Developing successful partnerships and relationships with organisations and education stakeholders in the region to support delivery of our programmes.
- Engaging with our local members to act as advocates for chemistry, showcasing best practice in schools engagement activities.
What we are looking for:
A degree in science, preferably in the chemical sciences, or an equivalent qualification, together with evidence of working with schools, ideally with a teaching qualification.
An understanding of school level, further and higher education, the teacher training and early career pathways and a breadth of knowledge of the education systems in the UK and Ireland
An understanding of customer requirements, including those of: school teachers; school students; FE teachers, HE academics and support staff; HE students; careers advisors; employers; governments and its agencies, and non-government bodies.
Good project management, communication, team working and presentation skills and experience and the ability to work independently.
Experience of stakeholder relationship management.
At the RSC we embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means our teams come together when they need to collaborate. This role can be based either remotely in the South East of England or at our London office.
About the RSC
A not-for-profit organisation with a heritage that spans over 175 years, the RSC has an ambitious international vision for the future. Around the world, we invest in the education of future generations of scientists. We raise and maintain standards. We partner with industry and academia, promoting collaboration and innovation. We advise governments on policy, and we promote the talent, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science.
Visit our Work For Us website to learn more about us, our benefits, equal opportunities statement and inclusive culture pledge.
At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.
As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, we are flexible in the ways we give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team at jobs@rsc.org or on +44 (0) 1223 432229 and we will do our best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.
If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@rsc.org
This role will require extensive travel in the South East of England; visiting schools, working with members, meeting stakeholders and attending events. This may involve weekends and non-core working hours.
Key Responsibilities
- Project management of projects under the education community development programme aiming to support the proposition for student and early career teachers, including:
Research, design and implementation of projects to support student and trainee teachers, and early career teachers to become confident classroom practitioners.
Coordinating our national and local student and trainee teacher offering to ensure consistency
Supporting student and trainee teachers, including development and delivery of online sessions and establishing networks
Acting as an advocate for best practice for early career teachers, providing guidance and advice to colleagues and partners to improve the impact and outcomes of our services
- Manage and develop networks and partnerships with other organisations who share our aims to support early career teachers of chemistry.
- Research, design and deliver professional development and learning experiences for audiences targeted by the Education Communities Development programme using both digital channels and face to face events.
- Manage and develop professional development and learning projects focussed on audiences targeted by the Education Communities Development programme.
- Undertake regular research and use analytics to monitor levels of engagement and satisfaction of target audiences within the Education Communities Development programme, using these insights to develop coherent support that optimises the value of our investment whilst growing impact and customer satisfaction
Delivery of key projects on a local basis including:
- Introducing our support to teachers at the start of their career through delivering sessions to student and trainee teachers.
- Developing successful partnerships and relationships with organisations and education stakeholders in the region to support delivery of our programmes.
- Engaging with our local members to act as advocates for chemistry, showcasing best practice in schools engagement activities.
What we are looking for:
A degree in science, preferably in the chemical sciences, or an equivalent qualification, together with evidence of working with schools, ideally with a teaching qualification.
An understanding of school level, further and higher education, the teacher training and early career pathways and a breadth of knowledge of the education systems in the UK and Ireland
An understanding of customer requirements, including those of: school teachers; school students; FE teachers, HE academics and support staff; HE students; careers advisors; employers; governments and its agencies, and non-government bodies.
Good project management, communication, team working and presentation skills and experience and the ability to work independently.
Experience of stakeholder relationship management.
At the RSC we embrace flexibility and offer hybrid working, which means our teams come together when they need to collaborate. This role can be based either remotely in the South East of England or at our London office.
About the RSC
A not-for-profit organisation with a heritage that spans over 175 years, the RSC has an ambitious international vision for the future. Around the world, we invest in the education of future generations of scientists. We raise and maintain standards. We partner with industry and academia, promoting collaboration and innovation. We advise governments on policy, and we promote the talent, information and ideas that lead to great advances in science.
Visit our Work For Us website to learn more about us, our benefits, equal opportunities statement and inclusive culture pledge.
At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.
As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, we are flexible in the ways we give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team at jobs@rsc.org or on +44 (0) 1223 432229 and we will do our best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.
If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@rsc.org
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