Solar Options for Schools Ltd
Part-Time Educator & Operations Coordinator (West Midlands)
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Position: Part-Time Educator & Operations Coordinator
Contract: Part-time, term-time only
Salary: Competitive, pro rata (dependent on experience)
Hours: 0.4 - 0.6 FTE - to be agreed
Responsible to: Head of Education & Community Development Manager
Location: West Midlands-based (hybrid - home working, with regular school visits across the West Midlands and occasional UK-wide travel). Own car essential.
About Solar for Schools
We're a social impact driven organisation with a mission to help society become more sustainable by providing solar power and energy education to schools.
We believe schools have a role to play in helping the UK decarbonise faster. That's why we fund, develop, install and maintain solar PV systems on school roofs, and provide energy and carbon education to students, teachers and non-teaching staff.
We currently look after solar schools across the UK and are working to bring solar and hands-on climate education to many more, empowering the next generation to understand energy, carbon and climate change.
About the Role
We're looking for an experienced educator to join our team on a part-time, term-time-only basis. Based in or within easy driving distance of the West Midlands, you'll combine delivering our science-based education programme in schools with supporting the wider team remotely by keeping our teaching resources up to date and helping coordinate the diary of educator visits taking place across the country.
You'll have a background in education and extensive classroom experience, with the confidence to deliver engaging assemblies and workshops to primary and/or secondary-aged students. Alongside this, you'll bring strong administrative and organisational skills, a keen eye for detail, and a creative streak that helps you refresh teaching materials so they keep landing well with pupils and teachers alike.
This is a varied role for someone who enjoys mixing hands-on school visits with quieter, focused remote working, and who's comfortable collaborating with colleagues across the Education Team even when you're not all in the same room. You'll need your own car and be happy travelling regularly to schools in and around the West Midlands, with occasional travel further afield to support visits or events elsewhere in the UK.
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Key responsibilities
Your core duties and responsibilities will include:
Education delivery
- Follow safeguarding procedures to deliver Solar for Schools' science-based education programme to primary and/or secondary-aged children through assemblies and workshops, primarily across the West Midlands.
- Adapt your delivery style to suit different age groups, settings and school contexts.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with school staff, understanding their needs and encouraging continued engagement with the programme.
- Where required, carry out annual visual inspections of schools' solar PV systems, following Health & Safety guidelines and recording key performance information.
- Act as an ambassador for Solar for Schools, representing the organisation professionally at all times.
Resources & operational coordination
- Review, refresh and improve our education resources (lesson plans, assembly and workshop content) to keep them accurate, curriculum-aligned and engaging.
- Work with the Education Team to develop new content and materials as the programme evolves.
- Help coordinate the scheduling and logistics of educator visits across the UK, liaising with schools and fellow educators to arrange dates, confirm details and troubleshoot last-minute changes.
- Keep the CRM (Customer Relations Management) software up to date with school communications, contact details, visit records and resource version history.
- Provide general administrative support to the Education Team, including scheduling, record-keeping and reporting on programme delivery.
- Act as a day-to-day point of contact for educators, helping ensure visits run smoothly and any issues are picked up and resolved quickly.
- Attend internal team meetings (via Teams or in person) and occasional external events where required.
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Essential Qualifications/Requirements
Appointment to this post is dependent on successful Enhanced DBS clearance and two satisfactory references. Other essential qualifications and requirements are:
Background & Qualifications
- Teaching qualification (e.g. QTS) or equivalent extensive classroom experience
- Enhanced DBS clearance
- Two satisfactory references
- Knowledge of the UK educational context and safeguarding requirements
Location & Travel
- Based in, or within easy driving distance of, the West Midlands
- Full UK driving licence and access to a car
- Willing and able to travel regularly, including occasional travel further afield in the UK
- Available to work term-time only (approx. 39 weeks/year)
Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience delivering learning to primary and/or secondary-aged children
- Strong administrative and organisational skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Experience creating, updating or differentiating teaching and learning materials
- Confident using CRM systems and Microsoft Office/Teams or Google Workspace
- Confident public speaking and presentation skills
Personal Attributes
- Creative, with an eye for developing engaging content
- Comfortable working independently and managing own workload
- Adaptable and flexible
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Enjoys a varied role split between school visits and remote working
- Professionalism and a collaborative, team-first approach
Desirable criteria
- Science, sustainability or related degree/qualification
- Experience coordinating schedules, logistics or diaries
- Skill/experience in behaviour management
- Specialist knowledge of energy, carbon, solar or sustainability topics
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