Head of Education Partnerships

* Internal Applicants Only

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

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, 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.

The Head of Education Partnerships will manage a small 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, and leading local projects that enable us to deepen activity across our focused areas.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…