School Partnership Manager

Job title: Schools Account Manager

Company: Veredus (on behalf of a UK Youth charity)

Workplace type: Remote (home-based, with travel to schools and events)

Location: England and Wales

Employment type: Full-time (three to five days considered)

Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 FTE

Help tens of thousands of young people build the character skills that shape the rest of their lives.

Veredus is supporting a fast-growing UK Youth charity that delivers fully funded character-education workshops in schools across England and Wales. Schools pay nothing, and the charity prioritises the communities where the need is greatest. It has already reached hundreds of thousands of young people and has ambitious growth plans, delivered by a small, dedicated team and a national network of facilitators.

The role

This is the engine room. Nothing reaches a young person unless someone has talked to a school, found the right facilitator, booked the date and made sure the day runs well. That’s this job, and it carries around half of the charity’s annual reach.

You’ll:

• Own school bookings end to end: enquiries, meetings, confirmations and scheduling
• Turn trust-level agreements into individual school bookings
• Work with self-employed facilitators to convert their own school leads (influence and partnership, not line management)
• Build repeat relationships, bringing on new schools and growing rebookings
• Keep a newly launched CRM accurate. It goes live before you start and frees up a significant share of admin time

Something genuinely unusual for a role at this level

You’ll set up and run the charity’s youth advisory council, a group of young people from partner schools. Its members will have real influence over what the charity delivers and how it talks about its work. If you’ve ever wanted the young people you serve to have a proper say, this is the job where you build that.

You’ll also act as Deputy Safeguarding Officer alongside two Designated Safeguarding Leads. Level 3 training is fully funded and completed in your first three months, and the responsibility is shared.

What you’ll bring

You might be an ex-education recruiter used to building relationships with heads and business managers. You might be a community or outreach manager who has worked with schools and academies. Or you might come from a school-facing role in education. What matters is that you understand how schools work and how to get things booked and delivered.

• Experience working with schools, academies or multi-academy trusts, for example in education recruitment, community outreach, partnerships or a school-based role
• Sales, account management or business development experience, in the charity or corporate sector
• Excellent organisation, and the ability to keep many moving parts on track
• Strong relationship skills with heads, teachers and school business managers
• Confidence with CRMs, booking systems and spreadsheets
• Confidence working directly with young people, and a commitment to giving them real influence
• Sound judgement under pressure
• An Enhanced DBS check, or willingness to get one before starting

It would help to know the English school system, including how trusts make decisions, and to understand GDPR and safeguarding.

Why this role

You’ll join a small, ambitious, values-led team at an exciting point in the charity’s growth, in a role where your work translates directly into young people reached.

How to apply

For a confidential conversation or to apply, contact Simon Pickerell at simon.pickerell@veredus.co.uk.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, particularly those who reflect the communities the charity serves.