The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

Operations Officer – 2-year Fixed Term Contract

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £29,366 - £34,548 per year

About the role

  • Support the operational delivery and development of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE)
  • Manage a portfolio of Licensed Organisations (LOs)
  • Work with licensed organisations to build their capacity
  • Support their reach into more marginalised communities
  • Ensure quality and compliance with the Award framework
  • Role will be field-based, with work from home when not attending meetings

Requirements

  • Dynamic and proactive team player
  • Ability to embrace innovation and change
  • Confident and effective communicator
  • Experience of building and sustaining relationships with stakeholders across the education and/or youth and community sectors
  • Passionate advocate for the work of the DofE
  • Motivated by the charity’s current strategic ambition to give more than one million young people the chance to participate in our life-changing programmes
Benefits
  • We offer excellent staff benefits including a generous pension contribution
  • An employee assistance programme
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Volunteer leave
  • 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays and an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and the New Year
  • Buy additional annual leave
  • Benefits discount website
  • Death in service benefit 4 x salary
  • Incapacity benefit
  • Generous family leave
  • Sick leave
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