School Adventures Administrator (part-time)

Reporting to: School Adventures Manager
Location: Northwest Region - Ideally 1 hour from Manchester
Salary: £24,570 - £27,846 FTE, plus benefits. Starting salary is dependent on experience.
Contract: Two-year fixed term to start as soon as possible.
Hours: 18-20 hours/week, Monday–Friday (potential for full-time)

Closing date for applications: 09.00, Monday, 12 May 2025

Full job description

We're an educational charity that helps young people defy their limitations, so they become strong, resilient and curious, ready for the challenges of life.

Our new School Adventures Programme is a ground-breaking opportunity to reach young people, who may not have the opportunity to experience one of our outstanding residentials.

It may also be delivered as a pre- or post-course to our existing outdoor residential courses, giving young people an inspirational taste of adventure without leaving the school gates.

The Job

We’re looking for a motivated and experienced administrator to support our School Adventures Programme by providing administrative assistance to the Project Manager and Instructor. You'll be involved with organising schedules, travel bookings, customer liaison, updating Microsoft Dynamics and general admin tasks.

This part-time role (with scope to be full-time) will play a vital part in ensuring the smooth running of the programme, and in helping the team deliver impactful adventure programmes for schools.

Who we're looking for

We’re looking for a confident, enthusiastic individual with excellent communication skills and a passion for making a difference in the lives of young people. While a background in outdoor education or schools is not essential, you will need to be an experienced administrator.

The ideal candidate will have a friendly, professional telephone manner, strong organisational skills, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities with ease. Whether you’ve worked in schools, youth organisations, or other education-related roles, your ability to build positive relationships with stakeholders will be key to your success. You’ll need to have some experience of working with spreadsheets and budgets.

Whilst this part-time role is perfect for someone who enjoys working remotely behind the scenes to support our impactful School Adventures programmes, you will liaise with other colleagues in Outward Bound such as our Customer Experience team.

Your experience

Be an enthusiastic, friendly, organised individual with great communication and time management skills to keep everything ‘ship shape’
Have good administrative experience
Be able to juggle multiple priorities with ease and problem solve effectively
Work independently and take initiative
Have proficient ICT skills
Be familiar with spreadsheets and budgets.

You’ll also need an enhanced DBS check which Outward Bound will administer.

Benefits

Annual Leave of 24 days, plus bank holidays. Annual leave increases by 1 day per year to a maximum of 30 days.
Life Assurance: 3 x salary, covered from start date; includes Employee Assistance Helpline.
8 weeks’ sick pay at full salary in any 12 months.
Long-term Disability Insurance: 2/3 salary less state incapacity benefit after 6 months’ absence for up to 5 years, covered from start date.
Employee assistance programme (Unum): in the form of an app, with easy access to medical and mental health support.
Personal Accident Insurance while at work or commuting.
Health Cash Plan with Medicash
Pension Scheme (currently Standard Life): Auto-enrolment of all staff after 3 months service.
Berghaus uniform items provided and staff discount
Staff bursaries: discounted course fees for family members.

Plus! Personal Adventures – Outward Bound has a positive attitude to extended/unpaid leave (forward planning is required).

Apply today

If you are interested, please drop an email with an up-to-date CV and covering letter of no more than 500 words to Tara King, tara.king@outwardbound.org.uk

The closing date is 09.00, Monday, 12 May 2025. Initial Interviews will take place from w/c 26 May 2025 at our Head Office in Hackthorpe, nr Penrith, or via Teams or Zoom if appropriate.

Start date: As soon as possible.