Education Partnership Co-ordinator

80 Reed in Partnership Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave (pro-rata forPart

Reed Pension Scheme

Award Winning Management & Leadership

Professional & Personal Development

Bi-annual pay reviews

Job summary

Reed in Partnership is recruiting an Education Partnership Co-ordinator in London to strengthen the Central London Careers Hub and support SEND schools and colleges in delivering effective careers education.

The role focuses on engaging with Local Authority partners, LEPs and employers to expand impact, coordinating with the Skills Lead, and developing activities that motivate young people toward informed choices and positive outcomes.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience engaging and building relationships with leaders from schools, colleges and businesses.
• Delivery of services or projects with multiple stakeholders including volunteers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication with diverse audiences in education/careers.
• Understanding of school culture and the careers education landscape.
• Knowledge of local and national policy relating to skills and economic development.
• Familiarity with post-16 landscape including NAS, Uni-Connect, National Careers Service and T Levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative and able to build relationships at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Establishing and growing the Careers Hub locally by engaging and supporting a caseload of SEND, mainstream and AP setting and Enterprise Advisers (EAs).
• Building and maintaining relationships with senior leaders in local SEND schools and colleges.
• Recruit senior level business volunteers from local businesses and match them to schools and colleges within the EA Network.
• Provide induction training, co-ordinate EA network meetings and identify/deliver ongoing training.
• Support Careers & Enterprise Fund recipients to coordinate delivery with LEP and local EAN.
• Build understanding of local context of careers provision and align with national context.
• Ensure schools/colleges complete compass evaluations and Gatsby Benchmark performance.
• Lead and coordinate relationships between EA, schools/college and Careers Hub with focus on outcomes.
• Host inductions in the evening.

Skills

Relationship building

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Project delivery

Team collaboration

Evening/weekend flexibility

Education sector experience

Education

2 A-Levels or Level 3 Diploma

GCSE English (Grade B)

Desirable Degree or Level 3/4 NVQ

Job description

Reed in Partnership has been delivering public services since 1998. We are a British, family-owned company, whose mission has always been to positively transform people and their communities. This is reflected in our services, which we deliver to help people from all backgrounds and circumstances to change their lives for the better.

Pay Range £40,652 (Pro Rata) Working Hours/Pattern: Full-time, although we would be happy to consider applicants who are looking to work on a part time basis. If you would like to explore this further please discuss this with the talent partner for this role. Please note our ability to accommodate flexible working arrangements will vary from role to role, dependent on business requirements.

Job Description Do you have experience delivering projects? Do you have experience in supporting a team with building relationships in the local areas? Consider the role of an Education Partnership Co-ordinator at Reed in Partnership! The purpose of the Central London Careers Hub is to provide young people with a world-class careers education system by increasing support for schools and colleges from employers, increasing coordination of careers provision in schools and colleges, and helping every young person access the information, skills, and experiences they need to make an informed decision about their future.

Internal applications for this role close on 21/08/2026 Please note this role is a part-time role, 18.75 hours per week.

What is the role about?

The Education Partnership Co-ordinator sits at the heart of the local EAN in order to help SEND schools and colleges improve their careers and enterprise programmes and to engage with the world of work. Working closely with the Skills Lead/Hub Lead, the EC will ensure the EAN is embedded into the LEP/Combined Authority/Local Authority skills strategy and make it easier for employers to engage with schools and colleges. Through establishing the local and national contexts the EC will focus everyone’s efforts on programmes and activities that are most effective in motivating young people, supporting independent choice, and supporting positive outcomes for young people.

Day-to-day responsibilities

• Establishing and growing the Careers Hub locally by engaging and supporting a caseload of SEND, mainstream and AP setting and Enterprise Advisers (EAs)
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with senior leaders in local SEND schools and colleges within the caseload.
• Recruit senior level business volunteers from local businesses and successfully match them to schools and colleges within the Enterprise Adviser Network.
• Provide ongoing support to business volunteers and schools including induction training, coordinating EA network meetings and identifying and delivering ongoing training to meet individual EAs development needs,
• Support Careers & Enterprise Fund recipients to ensure they are coordinating delivery with the LEAP and local EAN and providing feedback on them to the Network Lead and the Investment Team.
• Build an understanding of the local context of careers provision and providers including and how these fit with the national context.
• Ensuring all schools and colleges are completing compass evaluations, driving Gatsby Benchmark performance and therefore all young people are benefiting from high quality careers education.
• Leading and coordinating relationships between the EA, the school/college and the wider Careers Hub with a focus on impact and destination outcomes for young people.
• Build a strong understanding of national developments in careers education, keeping schools and business volunteers informed of changes. (i.e. changes in statutory guidance)
• There will be a requirement to host inductions in the evening

What’s in it for you?

You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found Here

To be successful in this role, we are looking for

• Demonstrable experience of engaging and building relationships with leaders from schools, colleges and businesses.
• Demonstrable experience of delivery of services or projects with multiple stakeholders particularly with volunteers
• A strong track record of stakeholder engagement and management and of communicating with a variety of audiences, preferably in the education and careers sector.
• A demonstrable understanding of school culture and the challenges faced by schools in delivering careers and enterprise, and the current careers education and corporate social responsibility landscapes.
• An understanding of relevant local and national policy relating to skills and economic development and the issues and barriers to employment faced by young people.
• A demonstrable understanding of post-16 landscape including National Apprenticeship Service, Uni-Connect, National Careers Service and T Levels.
• Excellent communication (including written) and interpersonal skills, with the ability to persuade a variety of audiences and encourage others to use new ways of working.
• Collaborative and good at building relationships at all levels, both internally and with a range of external stakeholders.
• Experience working with Alternative Provision Proactive, with the ability to work independently, prioritising a busy workload and a large number of stakeholders.
• Adaptable, tenacious, determined, positive and resilient with the ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a start-up culture.
• A willingness to be flexible, with evening and potential weekend work required.
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
• GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification).
• OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage.
• Desirable Degree or relevant qualification – Level 3 or 4 NVQ.
• Fluent in a community language such as: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek.

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.

Whilst some roles are advertised as Full-Time, we may be able to consider applicants who are looking to work on a Part-Time basis. If you would like to explore this further please discuss this with the talent partner for the role. Please note our ability to accommodate flexible working arrangements will vary from role to role, dependent on business requirements.

We have an on-going strategic priority to make this a great place to work. We are a family-owned company. We think this makes us unique compared to a lot of other companies. It is fundamental to the way our workplaces operate, the decisions we make and how we treat each other. Our workplaces have been recognised for multiple awards. Most recently we were really proud to be presented with three UK Employee Experience Awards in 2022: Gold for Best Talent Management Programme, Silver for Diversity and Inclusion and Bronze for Best Large Company to Work For. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

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