Global School Partnership Associate

Job description

Global School Partnerships Associate

At InvestIN Education, we’re on a mission to help shape the futures of young people across the globe. If you’re driven, passionate about education, and want to work in a fast-paced company where you can have ownership over work that makes a difference, we want to hear from you!

About Us

InvestIN Education is a dynamic, educational start-up that helps students aged 15-18 choose the right career and maximise their potential.

Since our foundation in 2012, we’ve provided over 60,000 students from 100+ countries with the ‘ultimate work experience’. These immersive programmes are led by highly accomplished industry professionals and coach students through simulations, site visits, networking sessions and career coaching.

We’ve also worked with 2,000+ schools across the globe, coaching student development through skill workshops, industry-specific webinars, resources and more.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Global School Partnerships Associate with energy, passion, and a drive to help us expand our presence in schools worldwide. This isn’t your typical 9-to-5 role – you’ll own your calendar, travel internationally to build lasting relationships with schools, and support students as they prepare for their next steps.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Sales and Outreach: Spread the word across the globe about our career experience programmes and new in-school workshops.
• Relationship Management: Create and develop meaningful relationships with schools - understand their needs and ensure they are engaged with the programmes we offer.
• Public Speaking: Deliver engaging presentations to various-sized groups of students, parents, and teachers, inspiring excitement about future careers.
• Portfolio Management: Organise your time and travel schedule, with full ownership over your portfolio of schools.
• Travel: Represent InvestIN at schools, conferences, and events around the world.
• Summer Support: Showcase your adaptability by supporting or leading on one of our career experience programmes during the off-season.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience: You’re a recent graduate, with some experience working with young people and ideally some experience in sales, account management or a related field.
• Passion: You have a love for learning and are keen to make a difference in the education sphere.
• Drive: You’re enthusiastic, eager to upskill and progress, and motivated to take initiative to help achieve results.
• Excellent communication skills: You have confidence presenting to various different audiences and an ability to communicate information in a clear, engaging way.
• An organised approach: You know how to prioritise your time, juggling different responsibilities effectively.
• Adaptability & creativity: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, embrace new challenges and drive new ideas to keep the momentum going.
• Collaboration: You have fantastic interpersonal skills that support your stakeholder management (externally) and your work with the team (internally).
• Resonance with our values: You feel like you strongly align with our cultural values (listed at the bottom).

Why You’ll Love Working with Us

• A competitive salary
• 25 days paid holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• Opportunity to be part of a fast-growing organisation where your contributions will directly impact the company’s success
• Cultural initiatives, including 2 hours to take off at your choosing every week (“unplugged”)
• A strong focus on social impact, including volunteer days for you to take at your choosing
• Access to private healthcare and a pension scheme
• Sabbatical of three months unpaid leave after three years’ service
• Opportunities for growth, through dedicated learning and development training, termly appraisals and wider events

Please note that offers will be subject to successful completion of Enhanced DBS checks and Right to Work checks. We are also unable to sponsor visas. InvestIN reserves the right to terminate contracts in the event of non-completion. 

Working Schedule: 9am – 5pm (flexi-hours), Monday – Friday. Some weekend work may be required, but you will know dates well in advance, and get time off in lieu during the weekdays.

Working Location: Dukes House, 58 Buckingham Gate, London – Hybrid, with travel opportunities

Contract: Permanent full-time position with 6 month probationary period 

Salary: £26,000

Start Date: As soon as possible

InvestIN’s Cultural Values 

Experience is Truth: 

We believe that to learn is to experience. Our mission is to deliver professional experiences to young people that they would otherwise consider a far-flung fantasy. This ‘experiential learning’ appeals to all the senses and requires live in-person interaction; providing a welcome counterpoint to the restrictive and atomised environment of cyberspace. 

Empowerment and Ownership: 

We treat all of our students as young professionals, not simply older schoolchildren. InvestIN empowers students by thrusting them into a whirlwind of professional-life simulation, and asking them to stand up and be counted. Along with that empowerment comes the valuable lessons of responsibility. Students are expected to take ownership of their careers immediately, as we give them detailed advice about how to plant the seeds for a successful future; starting now. 

Action and Urgency: 

InvestIN believes that success requires both action and urgency. We have been able to grow at an exponential rate because we move ideas quickly into tangible steps forward and we execute them. InvestIN’s students refuse to be left behind and want to be able to cut through abstract procrastination; becoming empowered to act with decisiveness and urgency. 

Ambition: 

InvestIN is a fervent supporter of determined ambition. We believe that young people - and whole organisations - must continue to ‘think big’ in order to achieve their potential. We therefore coach our students to believe that there are no limits to their career ambitions, and give them the tools they need to thrive. 

Imagination: 

InvestIN is not an ordinary organisation. We create interactive simulations of professional life, which requires a commitment to using our imagination to deliver extraordinary experiences for our students. At the same time, we encourage our students to imagine themselves as young professionals now, not at some distant point in the future. We have discovered that tomorrow’s achievements are born from today’s visualisation. 

Integrity: 

At InvestIN, we understand the great responsibility that we take on in coaching students. Sometimes the simplest sentence or action can have a lasting impact on a young person’s life. We insist on running our operation with the highest level of integrity: from promoting the value of hard work and satisfaction over shortcuts and monetary rewards, to constantly looking at ways to reduce our carbon footprint. 

Safer Recruitment, Safeguarding and EDI statement  

InvestIN is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, seasonal workers, and external professionals to share this commitment.   

InvestIN are committed to making our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values difference, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to InvestIN’s culture.  

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to work with InvestIN will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of Police records via the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and barring Service helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable candidates gaining access to minors or vulnerable adults. 

Open Source Searching Guidance  

InvestIN are committed to ensuring that we follow and implement legislation and advisories as set out in the KCSIE 2024 framework. Please see the below statement extracted from Harrison Clark Rickerbys Solicitors (HCR Law - https://www.hcrlaw.com/blog/kcsie-2022-safer-recruitment-the-use-of-online-searches-an-update/ ) regarding the updates within the KCSIE framework relating to open source searching as part of the safer recruitment process.  

KCSIE 2024 states:  

“… as part of the shortlisting process, schools and colleges should consider carrying out an online search as part of their due diligence on the shortlisted candidates. This may help identify any incidents or issues that have happened, and are publicly available online, which the school or college might want to explore with the applicant at interview.” (para 226, KCSIE 2024) 

Use of AI Policy 

All applications must be the original work of the applicant. The use of AI tools to generate or significantly modify any part of the application is strictly prohibited.