Outreach Officer (Fixed Term Until 31 July 2024)

We are seeking a motivated and passionate team player with excellent interpersonal skills to join our established outreach team.

In this role, you will act as relationship manager for a number of schools & colleges in the region, and focus on the design, organisation and delivery of outreach initiatives for young people who are currently underrepresented within Higher Education. This role sits within the post-16 outreach team and will lead on the development and delivery of our programmes with FE Colleges.

You should have:

• The ability to deliver engaging presentations and to work with young people from different backgrounds
• Excellent project management skills including event organisation and delivery
• The ability to manage relationships with multiple stakeholders to a high standard
• A keen interest in widening access to Higher Education

This full-time post is available immediately on a fixed term basis until 31 July 2024.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Appointment will be subject to a criminal record check at Enhanced level from the Disclosure and Barring Service, including a check of the Child Barred List. It is an offence to apply for this role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

UEA offers a variety of flexible working options and although this role is advertised on a full-time basis, we encourage applications from individuals who would prefer a flexible working pattern including annualised hours, compressed working hours, part time, job share, term-time only and/or hybrid working. Details of preferred hours should be stated in the personal statement and will be discussed further at interview.

Further information on our great benefits package, including 39 days annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays and additional University Customary days can be found on our benefits page.

Closing Date:  21 February 2023

To apply for this vacancy, please follow the online instructions via 'Apply'.

The University is committed to diversifying its workforce. As examples, we already hold an Athena SWAN Silver Institutional Award in recognition of our advancement towards gender equality. We also have a Vice-Chancellor led Taskforce on Tackling Racism and a Race Equality Charter Working Group which support our work on race equality. Our aim is to submit to the Race Equality Charter in 2024.

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