About the role

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Our Innovation team is responsible for the design and evaluation of learning programmes that give young people life‑changing skill development and leadership opportunities. As Innovation Officer you will provide support to our Innovation Leads across learning development, visual design, and research activities.

It’s an exciting time to join the team! Over the next three years we aim to more than double our reach to engage over 220,000 learners. You will play an important role, helping to make our programmes more accessible to young people from underrepresented groups and expanding our capacity to create high-quality learning experiences for a wide variety of settings and online.

You will directly support a broad range of projects including:

-      Our strategic partnership with Sport England to positively impact a wider diversity of young people through sports leadership opportunities.

-      The development of our new youth voice initiative to empower young people to lead positive change.

-      The expansion of our Environment Leaders Programme, in partnership with WWF and RSPB, to raise awareness and equip young people with green skills for their future employment.   

This role is ideal for a creative all-rounder. You don’t need to be an expert in all areas on day one. We are looking for a proactive problem solver who can grow into the role and is energised by the idea of wearing multiple hats to help young people succeed.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

This role is a remote, full-time, two‑year fixed‑term contract, with the ambition to extend subject to funding. You will need to be based in the UK and have the right to work to apply.

We look forward to your application

Role purpose:

To support the Innovation team across learning development, visual design and digital learning, contributing to the development and improvement of learning and assessment resources.

To support the Innovation team with research, evaluation and continuous improvement activities by helping to gather, analyse and communicate insights from programmes, partners and trailblazer (pilot) activity.

Main duties and responsibilities

Learning development

• Work collaboratively to help create and test new learning programmes, and continuously improve our range of Awards and Qualifications based on research findings e.g. from our Sport England Programme.

• Support the creation, editing and quality-checking of course content and materials, such as Learner Evidence Records and tutor guidance documents.

• Support digital learning activity, including content creation, managing online platforms and testing user experience. 

 Visual design and content

• Create engaging visual designs for use in course materials and impact reporting, ensuring designs are always accessible and on brand.

• Manage our library of learning resources, ensuring designs are reviewed regularly and improved based on feedback and research findings e.g. from our Sport England Programme.

 Research and evaluation

• Play a supporting role organising and conducting research interviews, observations, surveys and focus groups.

• Assist with data collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative insights.

• Support the preparation of engaging impact reports and insight summaries.

 Other

• Be an active member of the organisation and carry out any other reasonable duties as requested by the Innovation Leads. 

• Carry out any other duties as may be reasonably requested to support the work of the Leadership Skills Foundation. 

Skills, experience and knowledge

 Required/essential:

• A high level of written English and excellent attention to detail: able to craft and edit clear and concise written communications.

• Strong visual design skills: able to create engaging designs for digital and print that are accessible and reflect the Leadership Skills Foundation brand.

• Confident to play a supporting role in digital and in-person workshops, webinars and focus groups, including preparation, facilitating breakout groups, note-taking, and follow up.

•  Excellent collaboration skills: able to develop great working relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders.

• Strong communication skills: at ease liaising with stakeholders and partners in a professional, friendly and proactive manner.

• Excellent organisational and planning skills, with the ability to support different work areas and keep track of actions and deadlines.

• Fluent general IT skills, including regular use of Microsoft 365 tools (e.g. Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel). 

 Desired: 

• Experience using design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Affinity or similar.

• Experience of using inclusive design principles to create accessible designs and communications.

• Experience of being involved in qualitative and / or quantitative research projects.

• Experience in the creation of learning programmes or resources.

• Experience developing or managing online learning, using tools such as Articulate, H5P, Moodle, or similar.  

• Experience managing digital platforms, including uploading, testing and quality checking content.

• Creative video editing skills. 

Personal qualities: 

• Purpose-led, with a desire to make a positive impact for young people. 

• Motivated to create excellent work and improve guided by research and feedback.

• Proactive with the initiative and willingness to help the team across all tasks where needed.

• A commitment to professional development.

• Comfortable working remotely, as this is a 100% remote position with occasional meetups throughout the year. Some travel to in-person meetings will be required.