Job Title: Education Project Officer

Reporting to:  Education Manager

Responsible for: N/A

Based: Our Head Office is based in London, but we have an agile working policy enabling people to work at another UK location up to 4 days/week. Permanent remote working in the UK is possible and we welcome applications from people based in other parts of the UK. 

Terms: Full time (35 hours/week), permanent. Requests for part-time or flexible working will be considered​.

Salary: £28,600 - £34,424 per annum

Download the candidate pack for this role as a pdf

About the team

The Education team at the BSA is supportive, creative and innovative, and we care deeply about the work that we do.​

Between us we oversee the CREST Awards scheme (and its associated networks and grants), the activity packs and poster competition for British Science Week and a variety of funded projects that seek to make access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) more equitable.​​

The team are based across the UK, and we are happy to discuss remote/flexible working options.   ​​

Job description

Key responsibilities

Working on a variety of education-related projects and areas of work as required, example responsibilities include: 

• Day-to-day management of the accreditation process of CREST Award activities, including assessing the suitability of activities developed and delivered by partner organisations.
• Assisting with the administration of partnership agreements paperwork and drafting operational instructions that enable partners to engage with the CREST Awards.
• Coordinating the CREST online resource library, including reviewing and updating the contents.
• Providing support on funded project work, including the co-ordination of the development of new STEM resources, predominantly for schools and young people.
• Project coordination tasks including stakeholder and customer liaison, creation of task schedules and monitoring the evaluation of activities and projects.
• Organisation of online events for teachers and students to provide guidance about running CREST and submitting project work for CREST Awards.
• Customer care related activities including responding to teacher enquires via the CREST Help Centre.
• Supporting the development of content for British Science Week Activity Packs and liaising with partner organisations.

In addition, the post-holder will be expected to: 

• Work closely with colleagues in the Education team and other BSA colleagues towards the achievement of our vision and mission.
• Work closely with colleagues in the Communications team to ensure communication materials are aligned with our brand guidelines and quality standards.
• Proactively strengthen the organisation’s profile and reputation among external stakeholders.
• Support colleagues across the organisation especially at busy times or on specific areas of expertise.
• Other duties as reasonably required by the line manager. 

About you

You're a confident, organised and curious person, who is able to manage their own time and workload flexibly. A team-player, you are looking to gain experience working on projects in the charity or STEM education and engagement sectors.

Ideally you will have worked with schools/young people, and you will be comfortable working across all our programmes, transferring your time, skills and energy to different projects and priorities at different times.

You will be highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite of programmes, and willing and able to learn new IT/digital skills.

Above all you will have a passion for young people and giving all young people (regardless of background) the skills, inspiration and opportunity to feel like STEM is for them.​

Person Specification ​

Below is a summary of essential and desirable criteria needed for this role, as well as how we will assess a candidate’s suitability.

Essential​ criteria

Criteria	CV	BeApplied Questions	Interview	Task
Experience of project coordination and/or working across projects	Y	Y	Y
Understanding of the work of the BSA and passion for our vision and mission			Y
Clear communication skills, including the ability to write for a range of external audiences	Y	Y	Y
Demonstrable experience of using Microsoft Office suite of programmes	Y	Y	Y	Y
Team player but able to use initiative and manage workload	Y	Y	Y
Numerically confident with experience or an interest in data management	Y	Y	Y	Y
Experience of liaising with stakeholders and or suppliers	Y	Y
Adaptable with the ability to remain calm and effective when working on multiple projects/ across different programmes	Y	Y	Y

Desirable​ criteria

We don’t expect applicants to meet all of the following criteria, but having one or more of the following would be really helpful in the role

Criteria	CV	BeApplied Questions	Interview	Task
Experience of developing educational resources	Y
Experience of CMS/ CRM/Data management systems and web editing (particularly Squarespace/Power BI/Salesforce)	Y	Y	Y
Experience of working with schools, teachers and young people	Y		Y
Event administration experience, ideally in an educational setting	Y

How to apply

Applications should be made via this link: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/nzdtvkg4hz 

The closing date for applications is 23.59 on Sunday 22 September 2024.  

Interviews are due to take place w/c 30 September 2024. 

​Download the candidate pack for this role as a pdf

You can also view a text-only version of the remaining pages of the recruitment pack here.

You will be informed as soon as possible after the application deadline whether you have been selected for interview.

As part of the British Science Association’s commitment to being a Disability Confident employer, all disabled* applicants who meet the ‘essential criteria’ for this vacancy will be offered an interview under our guaranteed interview scheme. 

If you wish to apply under the guaranteed interview scheme, you will be asked to indicate this when you submit your application by selecting ‘yes’ in the relevant box when asked during the application process. Applicants do not need to state any further information or declare their disability at the application stage.

Whether you are applying under the scheme or not, if you are successful in being shortlisted, we will ask candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions to let us know if they need any adjustments during the recruitment process. 

If you have further questions or would like this information in a different format, please contact: [email protected]

Terms and conditions

While we try to ensure that everyone finishes work on time, and can vary their working hours in line with our agile working policy, from time to time the job entails working extended hours and occasional weekends, for which no overtime payments are made. The BSA operates a time off in lieu policy for weekend working and some other out-of-hours instances.

Only applicants who have a legal right to work within the UK will be considered. You will be asked to bring along proof of nationality and/or proof of ability to work in the UK.

You will also be asked to declare any previous convictions in line with your rights under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975.

This is a description of the job as it is presently constituted. It is the practice of the Association to examine job descriptions from time to time and to update them to ensure they relate to the job as then being performed, or to incorporate whatever changes are reasonably required, in discussion with the postholder.

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*The Disability Confident scheme’s definition of disability is in line with the Equalities Act 2010: “a physical or mental condition which has a long-term and substantial effect on your daily life”. 

Further information about our Disability Confident commitments can be found on the Disability Confident page of our website.

Our commitment to EDI

For the BSA's vision to come to fruition, we need to help science become part of culture, including those who are currently least engaged. We need to be able to engage with people in groups that are poorly represented in science, and that’s why equality, diversity & inclusion (EDI) needs to be central to our activities.​

The BSA has established three objectives for our work with EDI:​

• Develop our staff and internal systems to ensure the BSA reflects the society we want to see, and develops inclusive culture and policies;​
• Change our programmes to increase their relevance to audiences who are traditionally under-represented in science engagement activities, and empower people to run science engagement activities for their networks and communities;​
• Influence other organisations and individuals in the science engagement to sector to develop and improve their EDI practices in capability and audience development to reach new audiences.​

We recognise that in many settings, at the BSA and beyond, EDI can be seen as an add-on or ‘fix’ to the regular work. Our aim is for EDI to be the heart of everything we do.