School Communities Regional Outreach Co-ordinator
Salary £ 15,750 (FTE £26,250)
Aberdeen
Vacancy listed 17/07/2025
Application deadline 04/08/2025
Details
Team Summary:
The School Communities (SC) team delivers a range of programmes that inspire schools, learning professionals, children and young people, and families to establish a culture of reading and writing for pleasure. Key programmes include Reading Schools, Read Write Count with the First Minister, Authors Live, the SC events programme, and the delivery of professional learning opportunities and learning resources.
 
Job Summary:
The Regional Outreach Co-ordinator works closely with the School Communities Manager (Learning and Development) on the delivery and development of the SC Outreach programme in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City local authorities.  They are part of a team of four people based across Scotland delivering to their region, this post is based in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City and the post holder is expected to live within the area. 
 
The role involves working closely with individual schools or key stakeholders in Aberdeenshire and Aberdeen City to identify ways that they can engage with and benefit from our School Communities programmes. They will also deliver professional learning opportunities to a range of audiences in-person and online to support the SC programmes.
 
The role also provides support to the Learning Content Manager to develop resources and works alongside the SC teams and other SBT colleagues to ensure maximum impact for the programmes and audiences.
 
Key Responsibilities:

·       Support practitioners to engage with Reading Schools, Read Write Count with the First Minister and other School Communities programmes through effective administration, coordination and communication

·       Design, plan and deliver CLPL sessions for practitioners to engage with School Communities Programmes with support from the School Communities Manager (Learning and Development)

·       Maintain existing, and establish new, networks with key stakeholders including with external partners to champion the School Communities programmes and support effective delivery of the Outreach programme

·       Design and develop learning resources for learning professionals, pupils and parents with support from the Line Manager and Learning Content Manager

·       Gather evidence of impact and good practice and showcase these effectively, both in-person and online to support the programmes and Scottish Book Trust 

·       Supports Reading Schools (RS) with the RS Accreditation process where time and resource allow

·       Work with other teams within Scottish Book Trust to ensure knowledge, experience and contacts are shared across the organisation to aid effective programme delivery

Skills and Experience:

  • Significant experience of working with schools, educators and other professional practitioners to develop and maintain productive relationships
  • Experience of outreach work, including confident and effective creation and delivery of presentations, training sessions and workshops, in-person and online via Teams or other similar platforms
  • Experience of creating learning resources and support materials for a range of audiences, including parents, pupils and learning professionals 
  • Experience of dealing directly with a wide range of stakeholders to promote and embed new practices
  • Excellent influencing skills with the ability to enthuse stakeholders to drive participation and engagement
·       Confident in the use of IT, including Microsoft Office applications

  • Exceptional organisational, planning and time management skills, with the ability to organise own workload, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to work confidently and effectively across different teams
·       Ability to share and drive your passion and enthusiasm about children’s and young people’s books, reading, writing and their potential to transform the lives of young people 
Benefits

The annual holiday and statutory leave entitlement for a full-time post is 259 hours / 7.4 weeks per annum, which includes public and bank holidays.

Scottish Book Trust offers a money purchase pension scheme with a current employer contribution of 5% per annum.

Scottish Book Trust offers a life assurance scheme, paying a lump sum of three times employee’s gross annual salary upon death whilst in employment.

Employees also have access to an Employee Assistance Programme and a Bike to Work scheme.

Refer to the Job Pack for full details.

Notes

This is an outreach role that will involve travelling regularly throughout 2 local authority areas. Some of the settings may be rural and not easily accessible through public transport. A full clean driving licence is required along with access to a vehicle and business insurance.

The recruitment window closes at midnight on Monday 4th August.
We do not accept CVs.

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