PET is looking for an exceptional administrator and communicator who will be an integral member of the Access to Learning Team (A2L).
The Grants Programme Administrator role is an essential part of the Access to Learning Team. The team manages all aspects of PET’s distance learning provision, which offers courses to people in prison and provides advice and information to learners and prison staff.
The Grants Programme Administrator will play an important role in building and maintaining relationships with course suppliers and prison staff as well as providing information and advice to prospective learners, current learners and prison staff. This role will require the successful candidate to work on PET’s free Advice Line, providing advice, support and information directly to people in prison, their family and friends.
The successful candidate will report to the Grants Manager and work closely in providing advice, support and training to prison staff via email, telephone, virtual and face to face meetings. The successful candidate will play an essential role in helping to manage relationships with the prison staff.
We are committed to building a truly diverse workforce and are working hard to make equality, diversity and inclusivity part of who we are and everything we do.
Title: Grants Programme Administrator
Reporting to: Grants Manager
Salary: £30,850
Hours: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week). We are flexible about how these hours are spread during the working week (8am – 7pm, Monday – Friday). Some travel will be required when visiting prisons.
Location: Hybrid, based in our London office with some home working (London office – The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR).
To make an application please follow this SurveyMonkey link, answering the following five questions in the boxes provided:
- Why are you interested in this role at Prisoners’ Education Trust? (Max 250 words)
- PET is looking for someone with strong administration skills. Why do you think you would make a strong administrator? (Max 300 words)
- What skills and experience do you have that will help you succeed in this role? (Max 300 words)
- In this role you will be speaking directly to people in prison and prison staff, offering information, advice and guidance. What qualities and skills do you have to enable you to provide an excellent service? (Max 300 words)
Please consider the person specification when drafting your responses. The questions are as above so you can draft your answers before submitting them on SurveyMonkey.
If you have queries about the role or application process, please email: suzan@prisonerseducation.org.uk.
Closing date: Monday 24 March 2025 at 5pm
Interviews: Tuesday 8 April 2025