Schools Outreach and Widening Participation Assistant ManagerUniversity

The Role and the Department

The Schools Outreach and Widening Participation (SOWP) Team supports the higher education choices of young people who are traditionally underrepresented at university and encourages anyone with academic ability to consider applying to Durham, regardless of background.

A post has arisen within the SOWP team as part of the Uni Connect Programme, an Office for Students (OfS) funded project. The North East Uni Connect Programme (NEUCP) involves all colleges and universities in the North East region working together to support raising young people’s attainment and promote higher education opportunities through a sustained programme of interventions. You can find more information about Uni Connect

Based within Durham University, but working across the region, the post holder will lead/project manage projects within a sustained and progressive student engagement programme of higher education outreach activities in targeted schools/sixth forms called FutureMe.

The post holder will be directly responsible for the supervision of the Higher Education Ambassador based at Durham University.

This post is part of a dispersed team across the region, hosted at Durham University with functional line management support provided by an Outreach Delivery Manager based at Teesside University and Head of Programme Delivery based at Newcastle University

The post holder will be required to work autonomously to lead relationships with senior leaders in schools to deliver a programme of activity on behalf of the Partnership. This will include responsibility for the delivery of higher education outreach sessions delivered by staff and undergraduate Partnership Associates alongside the project management of new activity as directed by the Outreach Delivery Manager(s).

The post holder will be required to work from, and support colleagues at, other partner institutions across the region for which travel expenses will be provided. They will also be expected to attend and contribute to regional meetings in support of the delivery of the programme.

Working hours are usually 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday as is standard in Student Recruitment and Admissions. However, due to the nature of the role, the role is frequently required to adjust these hours and is occasionally required to work on evenings or weekends. The role will nominally be based at Durham and will be expected to attend the offices at Durham on a regular basis (typically 2 days a week). However, in addition, the post holder may also work from home or choose to base themselves at one of the other North East universities. If appointed to the post, your line-manager will discuss the specific arrangements with you.

Please note that this post is fixed term until 31st July 2027.

£31,236 to £37,694 per annum (Grade 6)