Project Officer, Literacy Champions

Our Literacy Champions project trains, engages and supports volunteers to work with us to design new and exciting ways to promote literacy in their neighbourhood or workplace. This action includes everything from community book-swaps and reading corners, to book gifting and reading groups.

We are recruiting a Project Officer to help deliver this work. Alongside our Project Manager, you will be responsible for working with individual and corporate volunteers, including those working for our project partner Amazon. This will include helping them to identify volunteering opportunities, providing training and support, and mobilising key community partnerships, as well as project administration including ordering resources, processing safeguarding information and maintaining accurate records.

You will also help create processes and resources that will allow these volunteers to deliver sustainable projects and activities that improve children and young people's literacy outcomes.

You will be based at our London office, although able to work from home regularly if you prefer. However, you will need to be able to be in the office when required, which could be at least two or three times a month. There will also be some national travel.

You will be experienced in planning and supporting the delivery of a project or event(s) in a charity or similar context, and have excellent knowledge of safeguarding practices. You will also have good communication skills, with the capacity to work logically, with adaptability and strong problem-solving capability. Experience of training, engaging and supporting volunteers would be an advantage.

It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It's the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. It's better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it's harder to get where you want to go.

The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity helping people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words - reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days to training, jobs and beyond.

• We work collaboratively in local communities, focusing our work in 20 areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.


• We support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.


• We campaign to make literacy a priority for politicians and decision-makers.


• We support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders' institutions to build their literacy skills.
  
  Our team are passionate about our mission and we have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. We offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.


As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.