Head of Education Partnerships

Location: Remote working in the UK

Salary: £42,724 per annum rising to £46,241 after 1 year of service

Responsible to: Associate Director, Programme & Delivery

Contract type: Full Time (37 hours per week), Fixed-term MAT cover contract for 13 Months

Closing date: 17th July 2026, Midday

Interviews: We will be interviewing on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible.

Who we are

Futures For All is the largest social mobility charity in the UK. We help to level the playing field between state and independent schools by giving all young people access to the same prestigious networks available to the top fee-paying schools. We believe that by inspiring young people to explore their ambitions through our speaker programme, facilitating access to multi-day experiences of the world of work, and supporting young people to successfully seize opportunities available to them, then we can make a profound difference to the lives of young people, their future happiness and prosperity. By 2028, our ambition is that every young person in the UK has access to high quality work experience. Yet today, less than half of young people leave secondary school having had any work experience whatsoever.

Role Summary

The Head of Education Partnerships will manage their team and play an active role in engaging educators, leaders and local stakeholders in pre-agreed and focused targeted areas across the UK. This role will focus on developing senior relationships across education, leading representation of the charity in meetings and platforms with senior school, trusts and college leaders. Leading on local projects that enable us to deepen activity across our focused areas.

Key Duties / Responsibilities

• Strategic purpose
• Provide support and effective management of a small team of Education Partnership Managers responsible for the development of successful education partnerships across our agreed focus areas of the UK. Taking responsibility for delivering personally within some of the focus areas.
• Lead the Education Partnership Team and become the expert in the creation and retention of high-quality partnerships that achieve meaningful outcomes for young people and educators across our focused areas, and other locations as and when required.
• Work with the Head of Education Engagement and Delivery to align our education strategy. This will develop our ability to reach low engaged schools or work on contracts, supporting the successful onboarding of new schools from cold spots.
• Deliver and implement a strategy to engage educators in our focus areas of the UK. Ensuring that projects delivered by the team are in line with our strategy, contract and funder requirements, working closely with local stakeholders.

Engagement:

• Plan and implement ways of working to enhance and deepen current education relationships, ensuring educator SLT buy-in, working closely with Heads across programmes and delivery.
• Drive consistency of approach across the Education Development Team in terms of school/college engagement and outreach methods.
• Line Management of Education Partnership Managers, supporting the team to deliver strategic aims and priorities, motivating them to achieve or exceed agreed KPI’s.
• Support your team to plan priority actions and ensure there is a clear feedback loop to programme/delivery, to achieve projects within their identified regions.
• Leading at regional and national education events, delivering presentations to potential stakeholders.
• Work closely with all programme and delivery teams to continue to develop a one team approach to ensure success of local projects across identified regions, being the education expert.
• Support and collaborate with programme and development teams, sharing relevant knowledge and research from our educators on demand across the academic year/industries, to enable our success.
• Lead in assessing which conferences, platforms and other marketing opportunities we should take advantage of.

Delivery:

• Report on all levels of school and young people engagement, tracking activity across the focus areas of the UK as required by Associate Director, Programmes and Delivery.
• Work closely with MAT/Trusts and college leaders to enable FFA to engage and offer 3–5-day WEX to their young people, collaborating closely with BD to ensure we are seen as the experts by our employers.
• Serve as our education lead in our strategic approach to deliver in our key focus areas of the UK, identified in our business plan, leveraging local partners to enable us to scale and succeed within these areas.
• Manage strong relationships with key local stakeholders in our focus areas, ensuring we are able to partner to engage educators in supporting 3–5-day WEX.
• Highlight and report on education trends and challenges to the wider charity.
• Contribute to plans to market our programmes effectively by utilising the right approach for success.
• Collaborate with our business team to ensure our activities are focused on our set industry priorities and target areas of the UK.
• Serve as our education experts, supporting all other directorates at FFA.
• Lead in identifying and managing partnerships to reach more education providers and YP, and develop narratives to enable all our teams to confidently communicate with confidence the benefits of educators supporting WEX.
• Provide monthly update reports on progress towards key KPI’s, ensuring any significant deviations are reported to the Associate Director, Programmes and Delivery.
• Ensure that best practice in safeguarding is enshrined in all activity.
• Adherence to data compliance standards, guidelines and best practices to ensure data integrity and consistency.
• Ensure effective Personal Development Plans are undertaken with all staff, clearly defining expected levels of performance and identifying and meeting training and development needs to promote a culture of continuous improvement and support within FFA.
• Ensure all Educational Partnership Managers have the necessary knowledge, skills and training to develop successful, sustainable local relationships with key partners and educators, enabling us to deliver the greatest impact for young people.
• Other duties as required or identified by the Associate Director, Programmes and Delivery.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge:

Essential:

• A solid understanding of the UK Education System and a familiarity with careers provision and social mobility challenges within UK schools and colleges.
• Experience in external and internal stakeholder engagement to support programme success.
• Proficient use of CRM and Microsoft Office to track relationships and ensure proper data management.
• Demonstrate the ability to deliver on strategy, being able to plan and be agile and support teams to deliver on objectives.
• Demonstrable time management skills and proven ability to work to key deadlines.
• Experience of safeguarding programmes for young people in the careers, social mobility or education space.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and/or experience of working with National Quality Assurance Frameworks.
• Previous experience of working with Local Authorities and/or Careers Hubs.
• Knowledge and/or experience of working with Gatsby Benchmarks/careers for young people.

Diversity at our core

Futures For All is committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and encouraging equality and diversity among our workforces. We acknowledge that some candidates may require additional support to overcome barriers experienced during the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please reach out to us via hr@futuresforall.org.

The Application Process:

Please apply as soon as possible by clicking the 'apply for this job' button in the top right-hand corner of the job advert. Once clicked, you will be asked to complete your application by submitting your CV and a cover letter. The cover letter is an opportunity for you to share the skills and knowledge you have to be successful in this role. Appointees are subject to a DBS check. You must have the right to work in the UK to apply.

The deadline to submit your application is 17th July 2026, Midday. Please note that we reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We will be interviewing on a rolling basis. Please apply as soon as possible.

Futures For All is committed to safeguarding the young people we work with and expects all staff members to share this commitment. Appointees are subject to a DBS check. Having a criminal record will not automatically exclude applicants. You are also required to have the Right to Work in the UK for this role.

Benefits offered at Futures For All

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Morning of your birthday off
• £500 a year professional development fund
• Option to purchase additional annual leave yearly
• 'Winter shutdown' gifted so no need to use annual leave between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
• Early bank holiday finish - we finish at 3:30pm on a Friday before all bank holidays
• 22.2 hours of volunteering days to use each year
• Home office set up support
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Employee Assistance Programme

Futures For All Values

• PASSION: We are committed to levelling the playing field for young people across the UK, creating social mobility and tackling disadvantages.
• AGILITY: We challenge our ideas of what is possible in order to better meet the needs of those we support. We are human, make mistakes, learn, evolve and adapt.
• INTEGRITY: We act with empathy and bring our authentic selves to work every day. We value and respect the talent, time and intentions of those we work with.
• COLLABORATION: We are one team with one mission and only by working together can we deliver better outcomes for young people. We support each other unconditionally and feel motivation in shared success as well as individual progress.
• DIVERSITY: We know it takes people with different ideas, strengths, identities, interests, and cultural backgrounds to make our organisation succeed. We encourage constructive debate and critical friendship.