We are excited to recruit a Community Organiser for our Springburn Parent Power project, based in the Springburn area of Glasgow. This role offers a meaningful, paid professional development opportunity. The Brilliant Club will work in partnership with the University of Strathclyde and Connect to engage with parents in Springburn. Connect is a Scottish parental engagement charity focused on building strong partnerships between families, schools and communities across Scotland to support children s learning and wellbeing by providing information, advice and training. Connect will use its existing networks to support The Brilliant Club to foster relationships with local schools and engage parents and carers in these communities. The University of Strathclyde was founded in 1796 as a place of useful learning for all, equality in access to higher education has always been at the heart of Strathclyde s mission: As a socially progressive and inclusive institution, we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds, recognising the barriers that exist for many, and we support our students to successfully overcome these. We remain committed to widening access and offering high-quality support to our students to ensure their successes. Strathclyde 2030: Outstanding education & student experience. In 2025, the university is a vibrant and diverse community of students and staff of all backgrounds, characteristics and lived experiences and the top Research Intensive university in Scotland for widening access. Strathclyde are committed to a socially progressive ethos and the consistent embedding of our values. The university will act as the anchor institution for the Parent Power chapters, providing meeting spaces and expertise in the form of university advice and guidance sessions for parents. Parent Power Parent Power supports parents/carers to develop skills in community organising and expertise in supporting their child to access higher education. The project empowers parents/carers to make change in their children s future and ensure that they have a fair chance in education and their future careers. You can find out more about Parent Power here. The Community Organiser will: Support local pupils from underrepresented backgrounds by empowering their parent/carers to become higher education experts. Receive community organising training from Citizens UK and develop transferable skills. Join a nationwide community of community organisers making a significant impact on university access.
Oct 20, 2025
Full time
We are excited to recruit a Community Organiser for our Springburn Parent Power project, based in the Springburn area of Glasgow. This role offers a meaningful, paid professional development opportunity. The Brilliant Club will work in partnership with the University of Strathclyde and Connect to engage with parents in Springburn. Connect is a Scottish parental engagement charity focused on building strong partnerships between families, schools and communities across Scotland to support children s learning and wellbeing by providing information, advice and training. Connect will use its existing networks to support The Brilliant Club to foster relationships with local schools and engage parents and carers in these communities. The University of Strathclyde was founded in 1796 as a place of useful learning for all, equality in access to higher education has always been at the heart of Strathclyde s mission: As a socially progressive and inclusive institution, we welcome students from a diverse range of backgrounds, recognising the barriers that exist for many, and we support our students to successfully overcome these. We remain committed to widening access and offering high-quality support to our students to ensure their successes. Strathclyde 2030: Outstanding education & student experience. In 2025, the university is a vibrant and diverse community of students and staff of all backgrounds, characteristics and lived experiences and the top Research Intensive university in Scotland for widening access. Strathclyde are committed to a socially progressive ethos and the consistent embedding of our values. The university will act as the anchor institution for the Parent Power chapters, providing meeting spaces and expertise in the form of university advice and guidance sessions for parents. Parent Power Parent Power supports parents/carers to develop skills in community organising and expertise in supporting their child to access higher education. The project empowers parents/carers to make change in their children s future and ensure that they have a fair chance in education and their future careers. You can find out more about Parent Power here. The Community Organiser will: Support local pupils from underrepresented backgrounds by empowering their parent/carers to become higher education experts. Receive community organising training from Citizens UK and develop transferable skills. Join a nationwide community of community organisers making a significant impact on university access.
We are excited to be recruiting a Finance Manager to join the Operations team. You ll work with your team to deliver the goals set out in Join the Club, our ambitious strategy for 2. The Finance Manger role will be central in ensuring the smooth running of the Finance department and delivery of the department s targets. The role will manage a varied workload that includes preparing monthly management accounts to deadlines, helping with the annual budget and quarterly forecasts, approving payments while ensuring internal controls are adhered to, overseeing invoicing, accounts payable, banking and payroll, and line managing Finance staff members. The role requires a qualified accountant with energy and enthusiasm, excellent time management skills and the ability to build great working relationships with colleagues across the organisation. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity. Person Specification Time and Resource Management • Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage time effectively • Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities • Helps others to develop the skills and behaviours to build good time and resource management • Manages projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management • Confidence in handling enquiries and conflicts from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs • Actively shares useful information about stakeholders with internal colleagues at all levels Communication • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Evaluates the quality of communications within their team, suggesting improvements • Makes sound, nuanced judgments about how, when and whether to communicate difficult complex messages Initiative and Problem Solving • Proactivity in seeking to enhance processes and identifying emerging risks, solving problems and suggesting solutions as they arise. Makes the case for improvements that have a positive impact and effectively shares solutions and improvements within relevant teams • Encourages a culture of innovation • Works with their team to respond quickly to solve problems, seeking input from relevant internal stakeholders Developing Self and Others • Self-reflective and committed to own professional development • Stretches self, team members and colleagues • Makes sound judgments in managing staff Role Specific Knowledge and Skills • Essential - capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces • Essential - good knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls • Essential - good knowledge of excel (intermediate level) • Essential - good knowledge of accounting software e.g. Xero or Sage • Desirable - confident in using digital systems for delivery Role Specific Experience and Qualifications • Essential - ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified • Essential - at least two years experience in a similar role • Desirable - line management experience
Aug 01, 2022
Full time
We are excited to be recruiting a Finance Manager to join the Operations team. You ll work with your team to deliver the goals set out in Join the Club, our ambitious strategy for 2. The Finance Manger role will be central in ensuring the smooth running of the Finance department and delivery of the department s targets. The role will manage a varied workload that includes preparing monthly management accounts to deadlines, helping with the annual budget and quarterly forecasts, approving payments while ensuring internal controls are adhered to, overseeing invoicing, accounts payable, banking and payroll, and line managing Finance staff members. The role requires a qualified accountant with energy and enthusiasm, excellent time management skills and the ability to build great working relationships with colleagues across the organisation. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity. Person Specification Time and Resource Management • Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage time effectively • Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities • Helps others to develop the skills and behaviours to build good time and resource management • Manages projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management • Confidence in handling enquiries and conflicts from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs • Actively shares useful information about stakeholders with internal colleagues at all levels Communication • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Evaluates the quality of communications within their team, suggesting improvements • Makes sound, nuanced judgments about how, when and whether to communicate difficult complex messages Initiative and Problem Solving • Proactivity in seeking to enhance processes and identifying emerging risks, solving problems and suggesting solutions as they arise. Makes the case for improvements that have a positive impact and effectively shares solutions and improvements within relevant teams • Encourages a culture of innovation • Works with their team to respond quickly to solve problems, seeking input from relevant internal stakeholders Developing Self and Others • Self-reflective and committed to own professional development • Stretches self, team members and colleagues • Makes sound judgments in managing staff Role Specific Knowledge and Skills • Essential - capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces • Essential - good knowledge of accounting principles and internal controls • Essential - good knowledge of excel (intermediate level) • Essential - good knowledge of accounting software e.g. Xero or Sage • Desirable - confident in using digital systems for delivery Role Specific Experience and Qualifications • Essential - ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified • Essential - at least two years experience in a similar role • Desirable - line management experience
The Opportunity We are excited to be recruiting a Communities and Special Projects Officer to join our Communities team. You'll work with your team to deliver the goals set out in Join the Club, our ambitious strategy for 2. As part of our new strategy, we want to better connect with, listen to and mobilise the communities we work with. This role will play an integral part in building our parent, alumni and PhD communities, You will help to scale our ground-breaking Parent Power projects, supporting with the development of local communities and creation of a national parent network. You will listen to and work with our programme alumni to improve The Brilliant Club's activity by leading on the operational delivery of our Experience Experts Panel. Our PhD community already includes thousands of tutors, and you will harness their power by working closely with the Head of Communities to develop our PhD Changemakers scheme. You will also work with our Student Success and Academic Development team to support the delivery of access and student success projects which sit outside the charity's core programmes - TSP, BTP and RIS. The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from underrepresented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity. Person Specification Time and Resource Management Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage time effectively Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities Ability to identify opportunities to save time/resources Manages projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management • Confidence handling enquiries from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs • Actively shares useful information about stakeholders with internal colleagues at all levels Communication Excellent written and verbal communication Confidence presenting and delivering teaching to a range of audiences including school-aged children and adults Initiative and Problem Solving Proactivity in seeking to enhance processes and identifying emerging risks Ability to spot inefficiencies in systems and suggest or implement improvements Responds quickly to solve problems, seeking input from relevant internal stakeholders Developing Self and Others Self-reflective and committed to own professional development Committed to the development of others Role Specific Knowledge and Skills Essential - Capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces Essential - Able to take a relational approach when working with others Desirable - Knowledge of community organising tools, including relational 1-1s and storytelling Desirable - Confident in using digital systems for delivery. Role specific Experience and Qualifications Essential - Qualified teacher (QTS or above) or academic research experience (PhD or above) or substantial experience of delivering a university access or community programme Desirable - Two year's professional experience Desirable - One year's experience of managing education programmes incl. design and delivery Desirable - Demonstrable experience in university access
Dec 02, 2021
Full time
The Opportunity We are excited to be recruiting a Communities and Special Projects Officer to join our Communities team. You'll work with your team to deliver the goals set out in Join the Club, our ambitious strategy for 2. As part of our new strategy, we want to better connect with, listen to and mobilise the communities we work with. This role will play an integral part in building our parent, alumni and PhD communities, You will help to scale our ground-breaking Parent Power projects, supporting with the development of local communities and creation of a national parent network. You will listen to and work with our programme alumni to improve The Brilliant Club's activity by leading on the operational delivery of our Experience Experts Panel. Our PhD community already includes thousands of tutors, and you will harness their power by working closely with the Head of Communities to develop our PhD Changemakers scheme. You will also work with our Student Success and Academic Development team to support the delivery of access and student success projects which sit outside the charity's core programmes - TSP, BTP and RIS. The Brilliant Club exists to increase the number of pupils from underrepresented backgrounds progressing to highly selective universities. We think it is important that our charity reflects the lived experience of our beneficiaries, and we want to be an organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans including non-binary (LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low income families. These groups are currently underrepresented at The Brilliant Club and we are committed to increasing representation and diversity at the charity. Person Specification Time and Resource Management Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage time effectively Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing priorities Ability to identify opportunities to save time/resources Manages projects, with appropriate levels of time and resource input External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management • Confidence handling enquiries from external stakeholders and adapting approach to meet different needs • Actively shares useful information about stakeholders with internal colleagues at all levels Communication Excellent written and verbal communication Confidence presenting and delivering teaching to a range of audiences including school-aged children and adults Initiative and Problem Solving Proactivity in seeking to enhance processes and identifying emerging risks Ability to spot inefficiencies in systems and suggest or implement improvements Responds quickly to solve problems, seeking input from relevant internal stakeholders Developing Self and Others Self-reflective and committed to own professional development Committed to the development of others Role Specific Knowledge and Skills Essential - Capable of adapting quickly to new systems and interfaces Essential - Able to take a relational approach when working with others Desirable - Knowledge of community organising tools, including relational 1-1s and storytelling Desirable - Confident in using digital systems for delivery. Role specific Experience and Qualifications Essential - Qualified teacher (QTS or above) or academic research experience (PhD or above) or substantial experience of delivering a university access or community programme Desirable - Two year's professional experience Desirable - One year's experience of managing education programmes incl. design and delivery Desirable - Demonstrable experience in university access
