London Outreach Officer

Why work at Caius?

Benefits include:

• Generous Pension Scheme and death in service benefit
• Health care cash plan
• 33 days of annual holiday (inc. Public Holidays)

The Role

Gonville & Caius College is seeking a talented, motivated and creative individual with experience teaching in the UK state education sector and a commitment to widening access to higher education to take over the successful role of London Outreach Officer from the summer of 2025. The role involves coordinating the College’s widening participation efforts across its seven linked London boroughs (Barnet, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham, Newham, and Waltham Forest), working with students, schools, colleges, and other organisations working in the educational sector.

You will be based in or near to one of the above boroughs, and will make regular monthly trips to Cambridge, becoming a firm part of the community at Caius and the outreach community at Cambridge as a whole. You will have opportunities to work with and mentor students in a sustained manner, supporting them from year to year and working with them through school milestones right through to the Cambridge application process. Experience of teaching at a UK state school or college is essential. Some knowledge of Cambridge and its admissions processes may be desirable but is not essential and can be taught.

You will be proactive and have excellent planning and organisational abilities to develop and run programmes which reflect the College’s aims to attract more applicants from groups with less history of representation at Caius and Cambridge, and to increase the number of applicants to Caius from state schools and colleges in its link areas. You will also have excellent interpersonal skills, working confidently with children across a range of age groups, members of teaching and HE support staff, parents and communities, strategic partners within educational organisations, and students and academic staff at Caius and across the University.

This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. Candidates should ideally be able to start in August 2025.

The annual full time salary for this role is £36,862 plus £4,800.00 per annum (London weighting Allowance)

The College

Gonville & Caius College is one of the largest Colleges in the University of Cambridge. It is an educational charity, and its mission is to provide a place of education, religion, learning and research, in conjunction with a University that is recognised internationally as being of the highest standard.

The College is an academic community comprising some 530 undergraduate students, 250 graduate students, and 110 Fellows (lecturers, professors and other senior academic researchers and teachers) and almost 200 staff.

The Application Process

For further information and to apply, please click the ‘apply’ button.

• The closing date for applications is 12 noon GMT on Thursday 20^th March 2025.
• Interviews are expected to be held in the week commencing Monday 31^st March 2025.
• For your application to be considered it must be complete and include an up-to-date CV, covering letter, and details of 2 referees.

For additional information please email at careers@cai.cam.ac.uk

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