Engagement and Growth Officer

Reports to: Project Manager and Board of Trustees

Location: South Wales (hybrid; regular travel required)

Salary: £30,000 full-time subject to funding

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Closing date: 30 October 2026

First-round online interviews: First week of November 2026

Start date: 21 November 2026

About The Mullany Fund

The Mullany Fund (TMF) is an award-winning South Wales charity improving social mobility through education. Our bilingual e-mentoring programme helps disadvantaged 14–19-year-olds progress towards higher education in STEM related subjects, STEM apprenticeships and meaningful STEM careers.

The role

We are seeking a persuasive, well-connected education professional to increase school participation in TMF’s e-mentoring programme and attract Wales-based STEM businesses to provide work-experience placements, sponsorship and wider support. The postholder will also build partnerships with universities and funders.

To succeed, you must have a current, practical understanding of how secondary schools operate, including their pressures, decision-making structures, calendars and competing priorities. You must also understand schools’ current responsibilities for providing work-related learning and work-experience opportunities to students, and be able to show how TMF can support those responsibilities. A central challenge will be securing teachers’ attention and commitment. You will need the credibility and persistence to identify the right school contacts, overcome limited staff capacity, persuade teachers of the programme’s value, and support them to encourage suitable students to enrol and remain engaged.

Key responsibilities

• Build productive relationships with school leaders, teachers, careers staff and other key contacts.
• Present a clear case for TMF that reflects schools’ current work-experience and work-related learning requirements.
• Understand each school’s timetable, priorities and constraints, and adapt recruitment activity accordingly.
• Equip and motivate teachers to identify, persuade and support students to join our e-mentoring programme.
• Deliver engaging school presentations and follow up consistently to convert interest into participation.
• Identify, approach and secure Wales-based STEM businesses as partners, persuading them to provide high-quality work-experience placements, sponsorship and other opportunities for mentees.
• Support funding applications, impact reporting, stakeholder communications and programme development.
• Represent TMF at meetings and events, maintain accurate engagement records, and provide monthly progress updates to Trustees.
• Uphold safeguarding, child-protection and equality responsibilities.

About you

Essential:

• Recent experience of working in, teaching in or closely supporting secondary schools.
• Up-to-date knowledge of how schools fulfil their responsibilities for work experience and work-related learning.
• A practical understanding of school structures, annual cycles, workload pressures and the barriers to engaging teachers and students.
• A strong record of influencing busy stakeholders and turning initial interest into sustained participation.
• Confident presentation, relationship-building and written communication skills.
• Experience of coordinating projects or programmes and maintaining accurate records.
• Five or more GCSEs, including Maths and English; A levels or equivalent; and a university degree.
• Strong digital skills,
• A full driving licence, access to a vehicle, and the ability to travel regularly across South Wales.
• Willingness to undertake an enhanced DBS check.
• Understanding of the barriers faced by young people experiencing educational disadvantage.

Desirable:

• Experience of widening participation, STEM education, charities or youth programmes.
• Ability to speak Welsh.

What success looks like

• More schools actively promote TMF and recruit suitable students.
• Teachers understand the programme, trust TMF and support students to participate.
• School interest is converted into sustained student engagement.
• New partnerships with Wales-based STEM businesses deliver work-experience placements, sponsorship and other opportunities for mentees, while university and funding relationships support TMF’s growth.

Our commitment

TMF is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all backgrounds, particularly from people with lived experience of educational disadvantage.

How to apply

Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining your motivation and suitability for the role by 30 October 2026.

Swyddog Ymgysylltu a Thwf

Yn atebol i: Rheolwr y Prosiect a Bwrdd yr Ymddiriedolwyr

Lleoliad: De Cymru (gweithio hybrid; bydd angen teithio’n rheolaidd)

Cyflog: £30,000 llawn amser,, yn dibynnu ar gyllid

Oriau: Llawn amser, 37.5 awr yr wythnos

Dyddiad cau: 30 Hydref 2026

Cyfweliadau ar-lein rownd gyntaf: Wythnos gyntaf Tachwedd 2026

Dyddiad dechrau: 21 Tachwedd 2026

Ynghylch Cronfa Mullany

Mae Cronfa Mullany (TMF) yn elusen arobryn yn Ne Cymru sy’n gwella symudedd cymdeithasol drwy addysg. Mae ein rhaglen e-fentora ddwyieithog yn helpu pobl ifanc 14–19 oed dan anfantais i symud ymlaen at addysg uwch mewn pynciau STEM, prentisiaethau STEM a gyrfaoedd STEM gwerth chweil.

Y rôl

Rydym yn chwilio am weithiwr addysg proffesiynol perswadiol sydd â rhwydwaith cryf i gynyddu cyfranogiad ysgolion yn rhaglen e-fentora TMF ac i ddenu busnesau STEM yng Nghymru i ddarparu lleoliadau profiad gwaith, nawdd a chymorth ehangach. Bydd deiliad y swydd hefyd yn meithrin partneriaethau â phrifysgolion a chyllidwyr. I lwyddo, rhaid bod gennych ddealltwriaeth gyfredol ac ymarferol o sut mae ysgolion uwchradd yn gweithredu, gan gynnwys eu pwysau, eu strwythurau gwneud penderfyniadau, eu calendrau a’u blaenoriaethau sy’n cystadlu â’i gilydd. Rhaid i chi hefyd ddeall cyfrifoldebau presennol ysgolion o ran darparu dysgu sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith a chyfleoedd profiad gwaith i fyfyrwyr, a gallu dangos sut y gall TMF eu helpu i gyflawni’r cyfrifoldebau hynny. Un o brif heriau’r swydd fydd ennyn sylw ac ymrwymiad athrawon. Bydd angen yr hygrededd a’r dyfalbarhad arnoch i nodi’r cysylltiadau cywir mewn ysgolion, goresgyn cyfyngiadau ar gapasiti staff, perswadio athrawon o werth y rhaglen, a’u cynorthwyo i annog myfyrwyr addas i gofrestru a pharhau i gymryd rhan.

Prif gyfrifoldebau

• Meithrin perthnasoedd cynhyrchiol ag arweinwyr ysgolion, athrawon, staff gyrfaoedd a chysylltiadau allweddol eraill.
• Cyflwyno achos clir dros TMF sy’n adlewyrchu gofynion presennol ysgolion o ran profiad gwaith a dysgu sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith.
• Deall amserlen, blaenoriaethau a chyfyngiadau pob ysgol, ac addasu gweithgarwch recriwtio yn unol â hynny.
• Galluogi ac ysgogi athrawon i nodi, perswadio a chefnogi myfyrwyr i ymuno â’n rhaglen e-fentora.
• Cyflwyno sesiynau diddorol mewn ysgolion a mynd ar drywydd diddordeb yn gyson er mwyn ei droi’n gyfranogiad.
• Nodi, cysylltu â a sicrhau busnesau STEM yng Nghymru fel partneriaid, gan eu perswadio i ddarparu lleoliadau profiad gwaith o ansawdd uchel, nawdd a chyfleoedd eraill i’r rhai sy’n cael eu mentora.
• Cefnogi ceisiadau am gyllid, adroddiadau effaith, cyfathrebu â rhanddeiliaid a datblygiad y rhaglen.
• Cynrychioli TMF mewn cyfarfodydd a digwyddiadau, cadw cofnodion ymgysylltu cywir, a darparu diweddariadau cynnydd misol i’r Ymddiriedolwyr.
• Cynnal cyfrifoldebau diogelu, amddiffyn plant a chydraddoldeb.

Amdanoch chi

Hanfodol:

• Profiad diweddar o weithio mewn ysgolion uwchradd, addysgu ynddynt neu eu cefnogi’n agos.
• Gwybodaeth gyfredol am sut mae ysgolion yn cyflawni eu cyfrifoldebau o ran profiad gwaith a dysgu sy’n gysylltiedig â gwaith.
• Dealltwriaeth ymarferol o strwythurau ysgolion, cylchoedd blynyddol, pwysau llwyth gwaith a’r rhwystrau i ymgysylltu ag athrawon a myfyrwyr.
• Hanes cryf o ddylanwadu ar randdeiliaid prysur a throi diddordeb cychwynnol yn gyfranogiad parhaus.
• Sgiliau cyflwyno, meithrin perthnasoedd a chyfathrebu ysgrifenedig hyderus.