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Opportunity to shape the future of education through effective management and coordination at Teach First.
Overview
Salary £42237
Location East Midlands (Nottingham); East of England (Norwich); London; North East (Newcastle Upon Tyne); North West (Manchester); South Coast (Bournemouth); South East (Kent); South West (Bristol); West Midlands (Birmingham); Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds
Expires Expires at anytime
Join Teach First - a charity dedicated to creating equity in education and making a strong impact daily towards a better future. As a Planning and Change Manager, you'll manage the planning and work coordination that supports our operations. You'll align work, manage the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) cycle, and coordinate among teams to streamline processes. It's a role demanding collaboration, agility, risk analysis, and tech savviness.
Role Summary:
- Manage the planning and coordination of charity works.
- Balance multiple operational plans.
- Collaborate with colleagues for implementing change.
- Identify risks and suggest mitigations.
Role Requirements:
- Good at mapping processes.
- Conversant with documenting operating practices.
- Comfortable with technology and working with IT teams.
- Ability to manage and share operational information clearly.
Application Process Details:
- A joint application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a background check is needed.
- The role requires a Basic DBS check.
We offer an attractive benefits package including 27 days holiday, a pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare, and access to subsidised dental membership, health screening, discounted gym membership, travel insurance, Give As You Earn, and the option to buy annual leave.
Teach First is committed to building a fair education for all children. Our work is making a difference every day, bringing us closer to a better future. However, we need to do more and we need your help.
As Planning and Change Manager, you will manage the planning and coordination of work that underpins our charity’s activities. You will ensure that our work is aligned, visible, and running smoothly. You will support the OKR cycle, enabling teams and squads to deliver on their key results. You will also coordinate and manage inputs from all of our teams and departments to implement and improve efficient and customer-focused processes in support of a portfolio of programmes and charity-wide deliverables.
You will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to prioritise and facilitate change and improvement work. This ensures that everyone has the tools, processes, and information they need to deliver their work successfully.
We are looking for someone who can read across multiple operational plans to ensure alignment and prioritisation in line with agreed objectives. You should be skilled at mapping processes, documenting operating practices, and managing and sharing operational information in a clear and accessible way. You should be comfortable working with technology and collaborating with IT teams to implement automation and optimise processes. You should be able to identify and articulate risks, suggest effective mitigations, and resolve day-to-day issues practically and effectively.
Teach First’s core benefits include 27 days holiday per annum (3 of which must be taken during the holiday shutdown period between Christmas Day and New Year's Day), participation in the pension scheme via Salary Exchange (with an employer contribution of up to 6%), life assurance, income protection and private healthcare. Through our flexible benefits platform access to subsidised dental membership, health screening, discounted gym membership, travel insurance, Give As You Earn and the option to buy annual leave.
We believe in the power of diversity and are committed to ensuring equality of opportunity and fairness in all areas of our work. All applicants and employees will be treated with respect within a culture where differences are valued, and rights are protected against disadvantage or discrimination related to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnic background, disability or religion and belief.
All roles require that the successful applicant and Teach First make a joint application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) for a background check. This role requires a Basic DBS check.
