Schools Coordinator

LLOYD'S REGISTER INTERNATIONAL; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London Weighting

Home workers allowance

Job summary

NSPCC in London is seeking a proactive Schools Coordinator (peripatetic) to deliver the Schools Service and local offer to primary and secondary settings. You will act as the single point of contact in designated areas, manage volunteers, and drive engagement with schools across London and the South East.

You will work to KPIs, lead volunteer recruitment and training, and support safeguarding best practices while traveling to schools as required.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in educational or safeguarding settings.
• Experience of working to KPIs and achieving targets.
• Experience of volunteer recruitment and management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to use IT systems (Excel, Word, email) and CRM.

Responsibilities

• Be the single point of contact for primary and secondary schools within designated areas.
• Work to set targets, KPIs and reach plans with your line manager.
• Manage bookings for Speak out. Stay safe programmes and NSPCC workshops.
• Oversee NSPCC volunteer-led workshops for children aged 6-7 and 9-11.
• Engage with secondary schools about Talk Relationships service.
• Lead and support a team of schools service volunteers.
• Conduct quality assurance visits and provide feedback to volunteers.
• Ensure training plans and sign-off for new volunteers.
• Provide volunteer supervision and recruitment/attraction strategies.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and attend events.
• Follow safeguarding procedures and collaborate with internal teams.

Job description

Closing Date:

13 September 2026

Closing Date:

13 September 2026

• Annually:£28,337 - £31,485 per annum plus London Weighting if applicable and £500 home workers allowance.
• Region:London and South East
• Location:London
• Department:Local Services
• Vacancy Type:Permanent
• Working hours per week:35
• Closing Date:13 September 2026

Schools Coordinator (peripatetic)

Annually

£28,337 - £31,485 full time plus London Weighting ifapplicable plus £500 home user allowance.

Location

London and South East

Department

Local Services

Vacancy End Date

13th September 2026

Hiring Manager

Charlotte Ali

• Home based.
• Must live within the advertised areas, as frequent travel is a requirement of the role.
• Access to a car for work travel and broadband are essential for the role.

About the role and theSchools Service:

• Everyone plays their part to prevent child abuse.

• Every child is safe online.

• Children feel safe, listened to and supported.

We are particularly keen to hear from candidates with diverse backgrounds, not just education. So if you've got transferable skills you could bring to this role from your experience from either the Corporate or Third Sector in sales and marketing, project management, orvolunteer management, we'd love to hear from you. For further information and/or to arrange an informal chat about how your skills and experience might be a good fit with us, please contact: [e-mail]

As a member of our team, our organisational values and behaviours would be important to you. We want someone who will take a child-centred approach, has a strong belief in the rights of children, and has a clear understanding and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of life and practice.

Reporting to the Schools Service Manager, the Schools Coordinator role will mainly be responsible for delivering the Schools Service and local offer to primary and secondary school settings. This includes (not an exhaustive list):

• Being the single point of contact for primary and secondary schools within the designated local educational authority areas, including non-mainstream settings;

• Working to set targets, KPIs and reach plans as agreed by your line manager;

• Responsibility for booking a minimum number of schools to deliver our Speak out. Stay safe programme;

• Overseeing the booking and delivery of NSPCC volunteer led workshops (to 6-7- and 9–11-year-olds);

• Actively engaging with and approaching secondary schools with our new Talk Relationships service and wider offer;

• Leading, supervising and supporting a team of high calibre schools service volunteers;

• Carrying out quality assurance visits through direct observations of volunteer deliveries, giving constructive feedback;

• Ensuring training and sign off plans are in place for new volunteers, which may include some co-delivery with a Schools Coordinator in schools for some areas;

• Providing effective individual and group volunteer supervisions;

• Planning and implementing volunteer recruitment/attraction strategies;

• Building and maintaining internal and external relationships, attending events or actively stewarding our offer with stakeholders;

• Following NSPCC Schools Service safeguarding procedures to the required standards;

• Collaboration with internal colleagues across the organisation in region;

• Being an active contributor to priority projects;

• Commitment to continued professional development and practice sharing.

1. Experience of delivering programmes and services within an educational, safeguarding or equivalent setting.
2. Experience of working to set KPI's and objectives to achieve and exceed targets.
3. Experience of all aspects of volunteer recruitment and management.
4. A child-centred approach and understanding of children's rights and best interests.
5. Experience of negotiating with and influencing stakeholders to achieve collective goals.
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of audiences in a variety of situations
7. Ability to use a range of IT systems and programmes (e.g. client database,email, Excel, and Word) to enable the post holder to fulfil their duties effectively.
8. Highly developed planning skills and the ability to adapt and prioritise appropriately to achieve goals.
9. Ability to manage both self and professional development using supervision, consultation and support where necessary
10. Knowledge, understanding and commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of practice and behaviour.

Supporting Documents

• Policy on storage handling use retention and disposal of DBS PVG and Access NI disclosures (227.92 KB)
• Our Benefits (5.84 MB)
• Recruitment of ex-offenders policy (268.33 KB)
• Safeguarding Statement (455 kB)
• Inclusive Recruitment Practices (943 kB)
• EDI Action Plan (677 kB)
• Becoming Trauma-Informed (3 MB)

As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services