Progress Coach

Overview

Activate Learning is seeking enthusiastic and inspirational individuals who are dedicated to making a positive impact to join our Progress Coach team. This role is essential in helping students develop the skills, knowledge, and attributes necessary to navigate the challenges and opportunities in learning, life, and work.

As a Progress Coach, you will play a key role in our learners' journey, dividing your time between whole class and one-on-one tutorials across various faculties.

• Whole Class Personal Development Sessions – spend approximately 60% of time leading whole class personal development sessions for a diverse range of students across different sectors, with up to 18 groups per week.
• 1-1 and Group Coaching – remaining time delivered as one-on-one and group coaching sessions, focusing on targeted interventions to help students improve learning behaviors, academic success, relationships, and career pathways.

You will support students in advancing to the next level of learning or employment while keeping them engaged. You will help learners build essential attributes such as self-awareness and resilience, and enhance decision-making and confidence. You will also support students who face behavioural challenges using a positive behaviour management framework.

This role involves meticulous record-keeping, collaboration with other student support services, and close communication with faculty staff. Adherence to safeguarding principles, professional integrity, and maintaining personal responsibility are crucial.

This is a permanent, full-time role working during term-time at our Reading College campus.

What do you need to be successful as a Progress Coach at Activate Learning?

We are seeking highly motivated individuals to lead focused Personal Development tutorial sessions within our team. This could be an excellent development opportunity for an experienced Learning Support or Study Assistant looking for the next step in their career, or an experienced Progress Coach who would prefer to move to a large college.

• Use your experience or transferable skills from education or youth work settings to effectively manage groups and build rapport with a diverse range of learners.
• Show empathy and resilience while working with students who may exhibit challenging behaviour, maintaining a supportive and confident approach.
• Utilise your outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to deliver engaging, relevant, and personalised group personal development sessions and coaching.
• Be confident in addressing challenging subjects such as consent, inclusion, personal responsibility, choice-making, and self-reflection.
• Explore and implement engaging and non-traditional facilitation methods, including project-based learning, to enhance the classroom experience.
• Have experience with the MS Office suite and demonstrate the ability to quickly adapt to new IT systems.

Activate Learning is a pioneering education group with a global reach, committed to transforming lives through our approach to learning.

We see our employees as individuals, empowering them to make the right choices for their ambitions and careers. We value our people as vital to our continued success and aspire to a diverse, open and inclusive environment that provides the motivation for everyone to pursue their career goals and flourish.

When you work for Activate Learning, you’re working for an organisation that provides you with the advantages of a large employer, a trusted partner in your career development, and a transformational way of working whilst also investing in building a community environment for everyone.

Together, we will bring out the best version of yourself.

• Monthly Staff Appreciation Awards: Celebrating staff for their dedication and accomplishments aligned to our award-winning Learning Philosophy.
• Wellbeing & Resources Groups: Comprehensive range of resources, guides and tools to support staff wellbeing
• Company benefits: Including free eye tests and will writing, plus access to a Health Cash Plan covering optical, dental, health screening,…