Widening Participation Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to join the UCLan Widening Participation team, with a focus on our pre-16 school engagement activity. The role will have responsibility for planning and delivering schools visits, leading delivery of workshops with school groups (with student aged 8-18 years), and ensuring all activity is fully evaluated.

This role would be ideally suited to a teacher or someone with similar experience engaging secondary school students. The post-holder will have a degree in any subject and very strong presenting and communication skills, both written and verbal. They will also have strong project management skills and an excellent understanding of how to use data to monitor and track programme success.

Candidates must meet all the essential criteria to be considered for interview.

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