Centre Leader


Company:	IntoUniversity
Salary:	from £37,300 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	TS26 8DU
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	23 Oct 2026
Closing date:	13 Nov 2026

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Summary

We’re an award-winning charity running local learning centres in the heart of the communities where the young people we support live. Our centres provide a high-impact education programme which includes practical learning support, pastoral care, and motivational and confidence-building activities for young people aged 7-18. Our aim is to enable students from the least advantaged neighbourhoods to realise their ambitions and achieve their wonderful potential.

As the UK’s leading university access organisation, our staff team is helping over 60,000 young people each year at its 46 learning centres and extension projects across England and Scotland, and we plan to scale-up our provision to 50 centres over the coming years.

We are looking for a high-calibre candidate who will enjoy working each day with young people and who will thrive in a frontline, community-based, fast-paced and rewarding role. You will be taking up a permanent role as Centre Leader at our IntoUniversity centre in Hartlepool. You will have responsibility for running your IntoUniversity centre, including managing your team, planning and delivering the programme, liaising with external stakeholders and meeting IntoUniversity’s targets for delivery.

A substantial element of this role is delivering our education programme to children and young people aged 7-18, so you will need to have a genuine passion and enthusiasm for working with young people, including leading a class of 30 from the front, working with small teams of children and providing one-to-one support.

The role at a glance

Contract: Full-time, permanent

Start date: January 2027

Application deadline - 9am Friday 13th November 2026

Interview day (in-person) - Tuesday 24th November 2026

Please ensure that you are available on these dates

Working hours

Mon and Thurs: 09:30-18:00

Tues, Weds, Fri: 09:00-17:30

(Some additional weekend & unsocial hours will be required)

Centre Leaders are based at one of our IntoUniversity learning centres and work directly with young people, schools and families on a daily basis. It is therefore not a hybrid role and is based full-time in our centres

Location

IntoUniversity Hartlepool

Grace Church Hartlepool

Tankerville St

Hartlepool

TS26 8DU

The role requires intermittent travel in your region (usually within the day). Periodic travel out of the area is also required e.g. to London, this may include occasional overnight stays.

Salary

£37,300 per annum

Annual leave

33 days (inc bank & public holidays) (pro rata for part-time staff) + 3 closure days (two in December and one in July) + additional length of service entitlement (one day per year of service, up to 5 days)

Staff benefits

Employer pension contributions of 6% (and up to 8% after two years)

Year round ‘early finish’ Fridays at 4.30pm

Summer working hours (finish at 1pm on Fridays for six weeks in the summer), pro-rated for staff joining after January in the same year

Employee Assistance Programme including access to wellbeing and legal support

Life Assurance scheme with Aviva including SmartHealth service with access to 24/7 online GP appointments

Interest-free new starter loans of up to £1,000

Cycle to Work Scheme and Travelcard Loan Scheme

Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay and sick pay allowances

Staff in FOCUS – rewards, competitions and prizes across the year

Essential requirements

Essential Criteria ▪ Have completed an undergraduate degree to a 2.2 or higher. ▪ Have achieved a grade C/ grade 4 or higher in GCSE Maths and English/ achieved National 5s or Standard Grade at Credit level (grades 1-2) in Maths and English (or equivalent). ▪ Have a minimum of 2 years full-time paid or voluntary experience working with children and young people. Please note that we will not take part-time, seasonal or ad-hoc work into account when calculating the length of full-time experience. ▪ Have the right to work in the UK (please note that as a charity we do not have the capacity to sponsor work visas). ▪ Be able to apply knowledge of F.E. and H.E. (e.g. UCAS applications) to help young people decide about their futures; and have knowledge of national developments in H.E. and their impact on young people traditionally underrepresented in H.E. ▪ Have experience of confidently negotiating with a variety of stakeholders, for example: head teachers, funders, universities. Desirable Criteria ▪ Ideally have previous experience of managing teams. ▪ Ideally have previous experience of managing multiple projects.

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