Rainbow Fostering Services Ltd.
Growth & Operations Associate

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Growth & Operations Associate | Help shape better futures for children
Build your career. Build something that matters. Change lives.
Salary up to £42K
At Rainbow, we believe every child deserves safety, stability and the opportunity to thrive. We are an Ofsted Outstanding-rated independent fostering agency, rated Outstanding three consecutive times, supporting vulnerable children and young people across the UK.
We’re now looking for an ambitious, curious and motivated Growth & Operations Associate to join us at an exciting stage of our journey.
🌈 What makes this role different?
You’ll experience both sides of fostering:
- Finding the right home for children
- You’ll help identify suitable foster carers for children coming into care, understand their individual needs, and help create the right match so they can feel safe, settled, and thrive in their placement.
- Finding the right people to become foster carers
- You’ll also support foster-carer recruitment by engaging with people in the community who want to make a difference, supporting them through the journey, and helping grow our network of exceptional foster carers.
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By understanding both the needs of children and the people who care for them, you’ll gain a unique perspective on how better matches lead to better outcomes.
And there’s more.
Rainbow is one of the first AI-first fostering agencies in the sector, using technology and AI to make our operations smarter, faster and more effective, while keeping the human relationships at the heart of fostering. This is an opportunity to develop real-world experience across:


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- Growth & business operations
- Foster-carer recruitment
- Children’s placements & matching
- Partnerships & stakeholder engagement
- Strategy & innovation
- AI & technology
- Social impact
No previous fostering experience is required. We’ll teach you the sector. What matters is your energy, curiosity, communication skills, ambition and willingness to learn.
If you want a career where you can learn fast, take responsibility, work with great people and make a genuine difference to children's lives, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for.
Apply now: jobs@rainbowfostering.co.uk
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