Closed for applications on 16/07/2025 16:17

Job Category:

Project Management

Vacancy ID:

283844

Employment Location:

North East (including Northumberland, Newcastle, Tyneside and Teesside)

16 Jul

Further Information

Welcome

Thank you for your interest in joining the CoachBright team as our new Programme Manager. We are a social mobility charity on a mission to support pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds become confident, independent, and resilient, so they can lead the lives they want.

There is an attainment and outcomes gap in the UK between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers. This is exacerbated when pupils have lower confidence in their own abilities and potential. Upward social mobility is made even harder when pupils lack relatable role models. We want to change this!

Now, more than ever, it is essential that young people from disadvantaged back- grounds get the support they need to achieve their goals. That’s why we’re playing our part to narrow the gap and support a generation of pupils to be their best.

We are ambitious, and are looking for someone as passionate as we are about creating a socially just world. If you’re motivated by improving social mobility and transforming the life chances of young people we would love to hear from you.


Role description

In the 25/26 academic year, we will be expanding our work significantly, supporting close to 3,000 young people from Cornwall to Northumberland. The majority of this growth will be through a one-year project we are running in partnership with the Education Endowment Foundation.

This project is a randomised control trial (RCT) of our Peer to Peer coaching programme, where we will be working with an additional 50 new secondary schools. We have seen a consistently strong impact from this programme on the attainment, social & emotional development, and school attendance of disadvantaged young people for many years. This EEF supported RCT now gives us the opportunity to test this impact at significant scale, specifically on the maths attainment, maths self-efficacy, and school attendance of disadvantaged Y10 and Y7 pupils (see here for more details).

To support with this delivery, we are looking to recruit a fixed-term (October 2025 - July 2026) Programme Manager, both full and part time, in the North East (including Northumberland, Newcastle, Tyneside and Teesside) Part time, 2-3 days per week.

You will have end-to-end ownership of your own allocation of programmes, which may involve a mixture of Peer to Peer, Core and Lifecycle programmes. Whilst delivering our programmes you will be required to build excellent relationships with our school and university partners, support with training and developing our undergraduate volunteers, use our evaluation frameworks to assess impact, and lead on conversations related to retention and expansion.

Candidates should be able to cover all locations in the given region they are applying for, so access to a car would be an advantage, but is not essential. At times team members may be asked to travel to a location outside of their region, but this will be rare and sufficient notice and TOIL will be given where appropriate.

The role is on fixed term contracts starting Monday 6th October 2025 and finishing 31st July 2026. The majority of direct delivery in schools will begin early November. The first few weeks in the role will combine a mixture of induction, training, programme observations, programme set up, and volunteer recruitment for our Core programmes.

Whilst there is the potential for a permanent role beyond the length of this project, this will be based on our levels of school retention and business development, and so cannot be guaranteed.

You will flourish in this role if you have a genuine passion and ‘knack’ for working with young people and supporting them to succeed, as well as being organised, motivated, and able to think on your feet quickly. If that sounds like you, please get in touch!


Please see Supporting Documents to view/download a full Job description and Specification of the main responsibilities and requirements of the role.


Key Information:

Annual salary of £30,579 (pro rata)

Fixed term contract (6th October 2025 - 31st July 2026).

Remote role with travel to schools across England. The majority of working days will require a trip to 1-2 schools in your region.

Reporting to our Programmes Team Leader


To apply please send your CV with a cover letter to beth@coachbright.org answering the following questions:

Describe an experience where you successfully built or maintained a partnership with a key stakeholder, for example a school or university. What approach did you take and what was the outcome? (300 words max)

Give an example of a project or programme you organised from start to finish. How did you plan it, what challenges did you face, and what was the result? (300 words max)

Tell us about a time when something didn’t go to plan and you had to adapt quickly. What did you do and what was the outcome? (300 words)

Add anything else you might want to tell us that could support your application with some examples e.g. have been a young carer and the organisational skills this required etc. (300 words)