Senior Attainment Coordinator

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate with pedagogical expertise, a love of learning and a deep passion for our mission to help raise the grades of disadvantaged students and enable them gain places at top universities.

You’ll lead on driving impact through our tuition interventions in a role divided into two parts, with a focus on (I) Programme Quality, responsible for the design, implementation and review of our Tuition Quality Assurance activities. In addition, the role is focussed on (II) Programme Development, responsible for the delivery and evaluation of our KS5 Attainment Raising pilot. This tests the feasibility and impact of small group tuition.

The Access Project is an education charity, and we believe that every young person can make the most of education, unlocking their potential and creating a fairer society.

Our mission is to work with high-potential students from disadvantaged backgrounds to help them gain access to selective universities.

The Access Project collaborates with universities on shared priorities to improve attainment and close the access gap for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The programme combats educational inequality and improves social mobility by raising students’ grades and supporting them to understand the pathway to a top university.

Key responsibilities - Programme Quality

• Deliver the Tuition Quality Assurance Framework activities, including our webinar programme and tutorial observations across the regions we work in.
• Oversee the management of resources used to raise student attainment (including third party subscriptions) ensuring they are up to date, high quality, easily accessible and disseminated effectively.
• Work with the volunteering team to ensure that stewardship of the volunteering experience is responsive to tutor needs and focused on driving high attainment; including input to tutor training and tutor surveys, and oversight of the annual webinar suite.
• Contribute to planning and delivering The Access Project’s performance management processes including our termly Programme Review Meetings with a focus on the continuous improvement to the delivery, quality and outcomes of tuition, including feeding back key monitoring insights such as our bi-annual student survey.

Key responsibilities - Programme Development

• Lead on the recruitment and onboarding of paid tutors, ensuring they receive the required training including online platform usage, tuition best practice and safeguarding.
• Lead student selection and group creation in collaboration with staff and key stakeholders.
• Liaise with tutors and University Access Officers to drive high tutorial attendance, ensuring attendance management systems are functional and fit for purpose.
• Troubleshoot technical and logistical issues with tutors, students and The Access Project online tuition team to ensure tutorial consistency.
• Deliver quality assurance activities by conducting tutorial observations and providing feedback and advice to tutors, University Access Officers and students where appropriate.
• Review pilot performance data and make recommendations on how to improve delivery through termly Programme Review Meetings and informal channels with key stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally and liaise with key stakeholders e.g. school leaders and Programme Managers to ensure successful delivery across key metrics.
• Develop and deliver the pilot monitoring and evaluation plan, collecting and consolidating a range of feedback to be used in future design and implementation.
• Develop the Group Tuition Quality Assurance Framework based on evidence led research.

We encourage you to apply now if you are interested in the vacancy, as we will be shortlisting candidates when applications are received, and we may close the advert before the closing date of 22nd August.

Reporting to: Head of Programme Development (with task management also from Head of Programme Quality)

Contract: Full time (37.5 hours) five days a week, permanent

Location: London, Birmingham or Remote in England

Interview Date: Week commencing 29th August

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