Higher Education Mentor

The successful candidate will manage, coordinate, and deliver HTF's Foundation degree programme ran in partnership with EFL Trust & University of South Wales. The post holder will support and mentor students as well as facilitate tasks and provide individual and collective support to maximise students' successful completion of the degree programme. Other aspects of the role will include recruiting students to the programme, working with a broad range of participants to deliver classroom based and practical coaching sessions at different locations including educational and community settings. The post holder will be required to work outdoors and to travel to different locations.

Key Performance Indicators

• The intake onto the Foundation degree programme is above 75% capacity.
• Lectures and tasks are facilitated to a high standard and student support is evidenced through pass rate of students and student welfare feedback.
• Classroom / Coaching sessions are well-planned and executed, evidenced by consistently positive feedback from participants and their parents/carers and schools.
• To ensure that students are successfully deployed to complete their work based learning hours and to assess their practical delivery.
• Classroom / Coaching sessions are inclusive of all, evidenced by the diversity of the cohorts engaged with Foundation programmes.
• The Higher Education Mentor develops, consolidates, and enhances links between The Huddersfield Town Foundation and key stakeholders.

Role Specific Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Recruit students annually to study the degree programme; this includes interview process and supporting with university applications.
• Support and mentor the students enrolled on the programme and manage students' adherence to deadlines to ensure these are met in a timely manner.
• Work with wider Foundation staff to organise and oversee the USW student work placement programme across the Foundation's activities. This may involve an element of assessing students and providing feedback to them.
• Act as the students' first point of contact for queries and concerns.
• Develop and maintain relationships with local schools and colleges across Kirklees particularly around Career Fayres and workshops.
• Manage the relationship with the EFL Trust and University of South Wales on the degree programme.
• Plan, prepare, and deliver classroom based and practical coaching sessions as required.
• Maintain a consistently high standard of delivery at all sessions.
• Ensure content of sessions is exciting, engaging, and relevant to both participants and the aims of Foundation projects/programmes.
• Adopt a participant-centred approach to all delivery, ensuring protocol in relation to safeguarding is consistently observed.
• Maintain registers and manage the required reporting for all sessions.
• Represent The Huddersfield Town Foundation at stakeholder meetings at local, regional, and national level as required.
• Act as an Ambassador for The Huddersfield Town Foundation, building strong and effective relationships with partners and participants to ensure that interest in Foundation projects/ programmes is sustained.

Other

• Attend all required induction and course events held at the University of South Wales;
• Contribute to fundraising/income generation for The Huddersfield Town Foundation, as required from time to time, to support and sustain the work of the organisation;
• Take responsibility for and be committed to personal and professional development, also keeping up to date with law, regulation, guidance, standards, Government policy and research relating to all aspects of the role.
• Work match days, evenings, and weekends as required.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the Huddersfield Town Foundation Chief Executive Officer and/or the Board of Trustees, commensurate with the level of the post.
• Work closely with the Senior Education Manager to plan, promote and launch Further Education programmes for the 2024/25 academic year.