Head of Social Impact Initiatives
UWC Atlantic
Vale of Glamorgan
- £28,879 - £44,471 per year
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- ASAP
- Apply by:
- 19 October 2022
Job overview
Salary: £28,879 - £44,471 (depending on experience)
UWC Atlantic is the founding College of the UWC global education movement. Its home is the beautiful 12th Century St Donat’s Castle in South Wales, where students from over 90 countries come for two years to live and work together in a dynamic learning landscape.
UWC is a deliberately diverse, mission-driven international college with a strong commitment to the educational principles of Kurt Hahn, its founder, and a passionate belief in the importance of education as a force for good in the world - to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future.
Since 1962, UWC has entrusted students with authentic responsibility and guided them to make appropriate choices and to learn from their mistakes. It is through this trust, responsibility and accountability that students learn that they can make a difference (‘You are needed’) and that through effort and engagement they can achieve far more than they ever imagined (‘There is more in you than you think’).
UWC empowers bridge-builders, systems changers and compassionate global citizens through the delivery of a pioneering and distinctive IB (International Baccalaureate) educational model.
UWC’s student body is hugely diverse (from around 90 countries every year) based on its ability to reach out across the globe to attract and encourage new students from vastly differing political, religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. These inspirational young people, the next generation of leaders, are drawn from among the most marginalised groups of today’s world and the most privileged. Students are selected on their promise and potential to create impact in the fields of sustainability, social justice and peace. The College offers one of the most comprehensive scholarship programmes available at pre-University level, with 50% of students receiving financial support.
The Head of Social Impact Initiatives champions and enables action-oriented learning, supporting UWC Atlantic’s mission of educating a diverse cohort of global youth for peace and a sustainable future.
The post-holder mentors and supports students in taking action on complex real world issues to enact a lasting and positive difference in the world. The post-holder manages Lighthouse, our on-campus centre for meaningful changemaking, where the community gathers around our shared values to initiate, incubate, and implement mission-aligned projects.
As a member of the Learning Innovation team, the post-holder supports key initiatives arising from our Educational Vision and the new Strategic Plan.
The ideal candidate for this position will hold a relevant university degree and will have experience of programme development and evaluation in an educational or social impact organisation. Experience and domain expertise in systems thinking/human-centered design/social impact evaluation along with the ability to contribute to strategic thinking and thought leadership around social innovation and systems change is essential.
Candidates will demonstrate excellent ability to lead, coach, mentor and hold young people accountable in addition to strong communication skills that enable credible relationships to be built with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
For all information and an application form please go to our website at: https://www.atlanticcollege.org/about-us/careers/current-vacancies
Closing date for receipt of applications: Wednesday 19 October 2022 at midnight
The selection process will begin on: Friday 28 October 2022
Completed application forms should be emailed to: hr@uwcatlantic.org
Please note that the only method of application we accept is a completed UWCA Application form - we do not accept CV’s.
UWC Atlantic is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people. Applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service
Registered Charity Number: 525761
About UWC Atlantic
ATLANTIC COLLEGE: Background
UWC Atlantic is at the heart of a powerful global movement and at the vanguard of progressive education worldwide. We are proud to be a part of the UWC family of 18 schools and colleges worldwide – and for our courage to champion the values, ideas and aspirations in which we all believe. We are driven by the UWC mission to make education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. It drives everything we do.
We continue to embrace the spirit of those pioneers who not only created the College in Wales in 1962 and launched the UWC movement in 1967 but who also co-created the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme, in collaboration with the International School of Geneva (Ecolint) and UN International School in New York (UNIS).
Our multicultural student body, from over 90 countries every year, comprises young people from vastly differing political, religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. They are selected to attend UWC Atlantic based on their demonstrated promise and potential, to make a difference in the fields of sustainability, social justice and peace. These inspirational young people are the next generation of change makers, empowered to go on to careers and lives that create impact locally, nationally and globally.
The first of 18 United World Colleges now located across the Globe, UWC Atlantic was inspired by educationist Kurt Hahn to engage young people from all nations in finding peaceful means to bring together a world divided by political, racial and social barriers.
UWC Atlantic was the first school in the UK (in 1971) and also one of the first colleges in the world to follow an international curriculum. It continues to lead the way in pioneering new options for the International Baccalaureate Diploma which its students study over a two year period.
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