Volunteer - Education Project Coordinator

Are you a proactive, dynamic and collaborative individual?

Do you have a proven record of providing efficient, high-quality administrative support to a range of stakeholders?  

If so, St Giles is looking for a Volunteer Education Project Coordinator to provide first-class administrative support to our pioneering SOS+ Service.

As Volunteer Education Project Coordinator, you’ll take the lead on coordinating project bookings, managing communication with schools and partners, and ensuring smooth delivery of the SOS+ service through first-class administrative, data, and logistical support. 

Your work will directly contribute to St Giles Trust’s mission to create safer communities and empower young people to thrive.

Ref: VEC-251

About St Giles Trust 

An ambitious, well-established charity that helps people facing adversity to find jobs, homes and the right support they need.  

Central to our ethos is our belief that people with first-hand experience of successfully overcoming issues such as an offending background, homelessness, addictions and gang involvement, hold the key to positive change in others.

About SOS+ Education -VEX team

Working with young people in a variety of educational settings, St. Giles’ SOS+ Service delivers early intervention work, through one-to-one mentoring and preventative sessions on violence, vulnerability and exploitation. 

The mission of SOS+ is to prevent children and young people becoming involved in gangs and youth violence by equipping them with tools, knowledge and support delivered by experts with lived experience.

What you’ll be doing

• Coordinating bookings for SOS+ education projects and managing the team’s delivery calendar.
• Supporting income generation by bringing in new Spot Purchase bookings.
• Recording accurate project data, monitoring deliverables, and flagging barriers to success.
• Organising travel, accommodation, and logistics for virtual and face-to-face delivery.
• Assisting with data collection, evaluation, and performance reporting.
• Following up on business development leads and supporting project growth.

What we are looking for

• A proven track record of providing efficient, high-quality administrative support
• Experience of coordinating bookings, managing calendars, booking travel and accommodation, and providing high-quality customer service via phone calls, emails, and in meetings
• Experience of project coordination, ideally including partnership work with schools and external organisations to achieve agreed outcomes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written
• A flexible, collaborative and professional approach to your work.

Please note:  as an organisation that works with children and adults at risk we are committed to safeguarding, protecting and promoting the safety of our clients and successful applicants will be subject to an Enhanced Child Workforce with Child Barred list DBS.

We are an equity and inclusion confident employer. We welcome all applications, and we particularly encourage applications from people of the global majority (black, brown, multi- heritage) and those who identify as disabled, neuro-expansive, neurodiverse, with any protected characteristics and/or social barriers or challenges. We value the empowering and informative impact that all lived experiences and diversity of thought can offer the organisation.

St Giles will guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria set out in the Job Description for the vacancy.