Programme Manager, First UK
Delivery
£32-39k
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Robotics competition for young people
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Robotics competition for young people
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£32-39k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To making STEM less intimidating, more diverse and inclusive.
Role
Who you are
- You will be passionate about working with young people, educators, and industry to engineer better futures. You assume responsibility readily and will harness your knowledge and experience to scale our impact nationally
- Someone who loves delivery, likes to roll their sleeves up and muck in - whether around events, outreach, volunteers, or partners
- A real team player who wants to derive a sense of purpose and satisfaction. Perhaps you have worked in event and volunteer management, programme or delivery, or you might be an educator looking for a career change. Or perhaps you are just mad about robots
- Xperience conducting outreach and stakeholder engagement
- Experience in managing others to deliver programmes, events, or services
- Passion for STEM, tech for good, young people, inclusion, diversity
- A strong communicator - both written and verbal
- Familiar with technology and tools like Google Drive, MS Office, and Salesforce
- An effective project manager with great attention to detail
- Excellent with time management and ability to meet deadlines
- Resilient, robust and empathetic to others
- Driven - self-motivated with positive energy
- Solution-oriented - see solutions not problems
- Reliable - committed to seeing tasks through to completion
- Curious - keen to learn, ask questions and grow
- Collaborative - team player willing to take initiative and support colleagues
- Adaptable - flexible and resilient in a dynamic environment
What the job involves
- A Programme Manager who wants to play a pivotal role in driving forwards the UK’s most ambitious, impactful student robotics movement
- Reporting to the Head of Delivery, you will be responsible for overseeing participation in our programmes, assuring high-quality and effective delivery whilst maximising opportunities for growth through:
- Outreach: Expanding participation among schools and youth groups
- Support: Delivering a high-quality experience for participants and educators
- Events: Coordinating and executing impactful robotics tournaments
- Volunteering: Recruiting, training, and supporting event staff and mentors
- Partnerships: Fostering a community of industry partners and STEM champions
- Responsibility, sense of purpose, growth. You’ll be working in a small organisation which is lean, agile and fast-paced
- Unimpeded by hierarchy and bureaucracy, you’ll have the freedom to experiment, fail fast and crack on. You’ll be using the latest tools and tech, promoting a validated and well-respected programme. Long before pandemics, we were working flexibly and remotely – it’s embedded in our culture
- Working alongside other programme managers and with support from our development team, you will help scale our programmes regionally
- We work with thousands of young people in schools and youth groups, who are designing, building and then competing with robots in a series of epic competitions. Getting into schools is challenging, retaining them is a stretch, and achieving teacher referrals is harder still. Your energy and enthusiasm will help:
- Engage schools, teachers, and youth groups to increase participation
- Develop and manage partnerships with organisations and networks to drive growth
- Represent the programme at community events, educational fairs, and conferences
- Develop and nurture a community of ‘More Than Robots’ STEM champions
- Gather community insights to improve participant experiences and maximise impact
- Through your project management wizardry, you’ll support all aspects of programme delivery to ensure a safe, high-quality, impactful experience for participants by:
- Providing timely assistance and resources to educators, volunteers and participants
- Overseeing events, managing volunteers and delivery partners
- Developing programme content, educational materials, and communications
- Managing records, data, and reporting using tools like Salesforce CRM
- Assisting with surveys, evaluation, and monitoring to assess programme impact
- We partner with leading UK companies who invest their money and people supporting our programmes. Using brilliant interpersonal skills you will:
- Recruit, onboard, and manage event volunteers and team mentors
- Develop and lead employee engagement initiatives which drive volunteerism
- Foster relationships with companies, universities and other organisations
- Evolve and enhance the volunteer customer journey, ensuring high-quality experience
Application process
- All applications via our Workable HR platform (no agencies, no pre-approaches)
- Answer 3 simple screener questions
- Optional cover letter
- Closes 2359 on Sun 28 June
Salary benchmarks
Our take
STEM education is at an all time high, with more and more money and effort being spent to ensure access to these key disciplines. Looking to help empower the next generation with knowledge, skills and excitement for this space is First UK, a part of FIRST Tech Challenge. It is a robotics programme also named the "Robotics Olympics" that supports skill development and runs the largest global robotics competition.
Aimed at younger individuals (aged 12-18), First is a non-profit organisation giving access to some of the most relevant tech mentors in the industry. Teams work to build a robot to compete, and an impressive 71% of young people who partake are more interested in pursuing STEM after taking part. Considering the great prospect of STEM careers, First is no doubt an exciting programme that has the potential to expand its reach in the coming years.
Freddie
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Company
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday entitlement and 8 bank holidays
- Super-flexible, hybrid role with lots of responsibility
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Vikrant Bhargava
(Founder)Also Founded Veddis and LetzChange. Currently acts as the Chairman Of The Board Of Trustees for Founders Pledge.
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