About the Role
We are seeking a confident and experienced education professional to engage, influence, and inspire young people across London's diverse communities. This role involves acting as a key ambassador, delivering high-impact outreach sessions, building strategic relationships with schools and stakeholders, and ensuring high standards of educational delivery.
Responsibilities
- Deliver engaging educational programmes to secondary school audiences across London.
- Lead the delivery of Project Guardian and wider safety-focused outreach initiatives.
- Develop and continuously improve education resources and learning materials.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with schools, educational professionals and community partners.
- Secure programme bookings and support delivery against ambitious engagement targets.
- Support training and mentoring of outreach delivery staff where required.
- Organise and facilitate educational events, workshops and community sessions.
- Ensure all activity is delivered in line with safeguarding and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Previous experience in secondary school teaching, youth engagement, learning and development or educational outreach.
- Strong classroom, workshop or large-group presentation experience.
- Demonstrable experience designing and delivering educational programmes and learning resources.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage challenging and diverse audiences.
- Thorough understanding of safeguarding principles and experience applying them in practice.
- Experience building relationships with schools, local authorities, community organisations or key stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to travel extensively across London to deliver programmes and events.
- Experience adapting learning content to different age groups, abilities and learning needs.
- A proactive, resilient and professional approach with a passion for education, community engagement and youth development.
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), teaching qualification or recognised training qualification.
- Experience working with vulnerable young people or students with additional needs.
- Experience in delivering PSHE and/or RSE materials in an educational setting.
- Experience managing, mentoring or coaching others in an educational setting.
- Knowledge of the National Curriculum and wider educational landscape.
- Satisfactory right-to-work checks.
- Ability to demonstrate right to work in the UK.
Skills
- Education professional
- Engage, influence and inspire young people
- Educational background
- Delivering learning programmes
- Safeguarding
- Youth engagement
- Ambassadorial skills
- High-impact outreach sessions
- Strategic relationship building
- Educational delivery
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Organisational skills
- Adaptability
- Proactive approach
- Resilience
- Professionalism
- Passion for education
- Community engagement
- Youth development
Location
- London Transport Museum
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- FTC 12 months
Experience Level
- Experienced education professional
Education Level
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), teaching qualification or recognised training qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Circa £34,000
Benefits
- Final salary pension scheme
- Free travel on the TfL network
- Reimbursement of 75% of the cost of a standard class Ticket for National Rail travel from home
- 29/30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
- Private healthcare discounted scheme
- Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
- Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
- Discounted Eurostar travel
About the Company
- Transport for London (TfL) is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- TfL aims to represent the city it serves, becoming a more innovative and efficient organisation.
- TfL is committed to work-life balance, operating a hybrid working approach where business and role requirements allow.
- At Transport for London, safety, trust and fairness sit at the heart of how they recruit.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria.
- We use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs to make the process fair.
