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Purpose:

Manchester United Foundation believes every young person should feel empowered to achieve their goals and uses the power of football and Manchester United to support young people to make positive choices in their live.
This role is part of MU Foundations Education Team and supports the objectives of:

• Providing unique educational and personal development opportunities
• Delivering experiences that promote education, personal wellbeing, and life skill development.
• Engaging with young people to help enhance their employment opportunities.

The main purpose of the role is to:

• Support and assist in the planning of a high-quality educational program focusing on the skills for the future from the inspirational space of Old Trafford Football Club.
• Lead the delivery of sessions to young people.

The Role:

• To plan and deliver is to the best of standards (high quality).
• To ensure everything is done safely, fairly, effectively, and efficiently (strong governance).
• To capture the success and impact of your work (monitoring and evaluation).
• To be responsible to safeguard the welfare of children and adults at risk.
• Ability to work flexibly including weekends and evenings.
• To create a fun, enjoyable and inclusive learning environment that is inspiring, dynamic, challenging, and educational.
• To create and develop session/lesson plans that will increasingly challenge and enhance skills, shape a positive attitude, and foster a confident approach to meeting the objectives of each programme.
• To develop and maintain a positive relationship with schools.

• To actively promote the Education Programme and maintain a database of schools / teachers for marketing activities.
• To contact and maintain links with professionals, groups and organisations, along with colleagues at MUFC, in order to keep informed and communicate information.
• Identify and meet the needs of colleagues and our customers, focusing on initiating and welcoming contact and communication whilst striving to deliver first class customer service.
• Uphold and promote the Foundation’s Safeguarding policy in conjunction with both Manchester United FC’s Safeguarding team and the school’s safeguarding lead.
• Complete risk assessments to always ensure a safe and healthy working environment in accordance with Manchester United Foundation and Manchester United Football Club’s policies.
• Keep up to date with Government strategy and policies on education, changes to the National Curriculum and OFSTED.

The Person:
Knowledge

• To want to make a positive difference to young people.
• Hard working, enthusiastic and reliable
• People Skills (Self-assured, build rapport, empathise with others, emotionally intelligent, approachable).
• Understanding of Safeguarding best practice
• Knowledge of implementing policies and procedures especially health and safety and risk assessments
• Knowledge of the National Curriculum and Ofsted Framework within schools
• Knowledge of the Premier League and FA Education Programmes (Desirable)
• Knowledge of the Tech Industry

Experience

• Experience working with children and young people, preferably within a school environment.
• Proven experience of delivering educational classroom-based programs.
• Proven ability of engaging with a range of stakeholders and external partners to achieve strategic and contractual objectives.
• Mentoring or pastoral experience within young people.
• Managing partnerships and programmes, demonstrating a passion for innovation, creativity and excellence
• Training and/or tutoring of teachers/coaches

Skills

• Inspirational role model who can create a positive learning culture.
• Ability to enthuse and communicate across a broad range of ages (Key Stage 1 to 4) to children in a positive learning environment.
• Confident and comfortable in delivery technology-based sessions

If you would like to join the team and be part of our mission, to win the United way, please submit your application by Thursday 27th April


Manchester United endeavour to respond to all job applications, however, please consider that we receive a high volume of applications, and this may not always possible.

We recognise the importance of safeguarding children and adults at risk at Manchester United, as part of this commitment this post is required to have a Disclosure and Barring Service check at the appropriate level, as well as full reference history.

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