Project Officer

Twiford Funeral Homes, LLC & Albemarle Crematorium, Inc.; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused non-profit organization in London is seeking project officers to support volunteers in promoting reading and writing. The role includes training volunteers, managing community partnerships, and administrative tasks, with flexible working arrangements and travel to London required. A competitive salary of £26,000 per year is offered, along with generous benefits including 39 days of leave and a pension contribution of 8%.

Benefits

Generous leave allowance (39 days)

8% pension contributions

Cycle to work scheme

Employee assistance programme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and supporting project delivery or events.
• Good knowledge of safeguarding practice.
• Experience of training, engaging, and supporting volunteers is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Train and engage volunteers to support reading and writing initiatives.
• Maintain accurate records and project administration.
• Provide essential support in mobilizing community partnerships.

Skills

Project delivery planning

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Problem-solving mindset

Job description

£26,000 per year

Full-time, 35 hours per week

Fixed-term role until the end of January 2027

Based in London / home and flexible working

About our client

Our client empowers people with the skills they need to succeed in life. They’re helping people change their stories. You could join them to support their work with volunteers across the country.

What You’ll Be Doing

Our client’s project trains, engages and supports volunteers to design new and exciting ways to promote reading and writing in their neighbourhood or workplace. This action includes everything from community book swaps and reading corners to book gifting and reading groups.

They are recruiting two project officers to help deliver this work, particularly as they scale up delivery during the 2026 National Year of Reading. Working as part of a small team, you will be responsible for working with individual and corporate volunteers. You will help them to identify volunteering opportunities, provide training and support, and mobilise key community partnerships.

You will also provide essential project administration, including ordering resources, processing safeguarding information and maintaining accurate records, and help create processes and support that enable volunteers to deliver sustainable projects and activities that improve outcomes.

You will be contracted to our client’s office in London, but this role is suitable for home and flexible working, with the majority of your work carried out from home if you would prefer. However, you will need to be available to travel to London for staff and team days, as well as to support project delivery and partnerships. This could be around a day a week on average, although at times it will be a lot less, and unfortunately, our client is unable to cover travel costs for this. There will also be some national travel, for which all travel costs will be covered.

What Our Client Is Looking For

You will have experience of planning and supporting project delivery or events, and excellent knowledge of good safeguarding practice. You will also need good communication skills, organisational skills, adaptability and a problem‑solving mindset. Experience of training, engaging and supporting volunteers would be an advantage.

Why Our Client’s Work Is So Vital

Reading and writing change everything.

They give you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. They’re the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. They’re better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it’s harder to get where you want to go.

Our client helps people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words: reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs and beyond.

• They work collaboratively in local communities, focusing their work in areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
• They support schools, developing the most effective tools and and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
• They campaign to make reading and writing a priority for politicians and decision‑makers.
• They support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders institutions to build their skills.

What Our Client Offers You

Their team are passionate about their mission and they have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. They offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to the organisations success, whoever you are.

As well as a competitive salary, our client offers benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

Application Details

Our client’s people are their most important asset, and they value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). They particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which they work. They would like to increase representation of these groups among their staff as they know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for their work.

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Closing date: 10am, Tuesday 25 November 2025

Please note we do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites.