Education Programme Development Volunteer

What will you be doing?

The Duchy Foundation is looking for education, youth and programme development volunteers to help shape practical learning, mentoring and confidence-building activities.

It may suit someone with experience in teaching, mentoring, training, employability, schools, youth work, programme design, additional needs, safeguarding-aware delivery or community education.

Why this role matters now

The Duchy Foundation has developed and delivered programme activity over the past few years and is now preparing selected strands for a more structured and formal phase.

This role will help translate existing programme knowledge and emerging strands into practical learning materials, workshop outlines, mentoring formats, partner-ready programme plans and clear delivery models.

The contributor will help ensure that education, youth and family-facing activity is purposeful, accessible, well organised and suitable for responsible delivery.

What you could help with

• Review early programme ideas and help turn them into structured activities.
• Draft simple session plans, workshop outlines or mentoring formats.
• Support education and employability content for young people or adults.
• Help design confidence-building or skills-based learning activities.
• Advise on school, college, youth or community partner engagement.
• Support child- and family-facing programme boundaries.
• Suggest ways to include young people’s voice safely and meaningfully.
• Support education strands connected to culture, identity, heritage or practical skills.
• Help shape inclusive materials for people with additional needs.

• • Advise on outcomes, attendance, feedback and evaluation.

What are we looking for?

Who this role may suit

This role may suit a teacher, education leader, youth worker, mentor, trainer, employability specialist, learning and development professional, programme coordinator, school governor, therapeutic practitioner, SEND advocate or student with relevant experience.

It may also suit someone who wants to support young people, families, social mobility, confidence-building, education inequality or practical routes into work.

Useful skills and experience

Useful experience may include:

• Teaching or tutoring
• Youth work or mentoring
• Programme design
• Employability or apprenticeship pathways
• Training and facilitation
• SEND or additional needs awareness
• Family support
• Safeguarding awareness
• Learning and development
• Coaching
• Monitoring and evaluation
• School, college or community partnerships

Italian, French or other language skills may be useful for future international learning strands.

What the volunteer may gain

The volunteer may gain experience helping to build practical education programmes from the ground up, contribute to social mobility and youth development, and develop clear outputs that could support partnerships or delivery.

For people seeking board exposure, this role may also provide a careful pathway into advisory work, provided there is strong alignment and reliability.
 

What difference will you make?

This role will help The Duchy Foundation turn its education, youth and family-facing work into practical, well-structured programmes that can be delivered responsibly and meaningfully.

The Foundation’s work supports learning, confidence, employability, social mobility, family stability and access to opportunity. By helping develop learning materials, workshop outlines, mentoring formats and clear delivery plans, the contributor will help make these opportunities easier for children, young people, families, volunteers, schools and community partners to understand and take part in.

Their work will help ensure that programme activity is not just inspiring in principle, but organised, accessible and useful in practice. A young person may benefit from clearer mentoring support. A family may be better able to engage with a programme that feels structured and welcoming. A school, community group or partner may find it easier to understand how collaboration could support the people they work with.

The contributor will also help strengthen the quality and consistency of the Foundation’s programme delivery. By shaping learning aims, session content, referral pathways, volunteer roles and simple evaluation tools, they will help create programmes that are purposeful, safe and capable of demonstrating impact over time.

This role is important because strong programme design creates better experiences for everyone involved. It helps participants feel supported, volunteers feel prepared, and partners feel confident that the work is thoughtful and well organised.

Ultimately, the contributor’s work will help turn ideas and existing programme knowledge into practical routes for learning, confidence, creativity and opportunity. Their contribution will support the Foundation’s wider aim of helping people access meaningful experiences that can build skills, widen horizons and create long-term positive change.

Before you apply

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

Alongside your CV, LinkedIn or portfolio, we would welcome examples of previous work or relevant links, especially content, campaigns, websites, social media pages, learning materials, programme work or projects that show your style, judgement and practical skills.

Please also include a short note on why this role interests you, what you feel you could contribute, and your general availability.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an informal online conversation to discuss experience, interests, working style and possible first tasks. Where there is a good fit, we will agree a small, clearly defined first project so that both sides can understand capacity, alignment and ways of working before any longer-term involvement is discussed.

All contributors will be asked to work within agreed confidentiality, safeguarding and data protection boundaries. We aim to contact shortlisted applicants within two weeks of receiving their application, although this may vary depending on response levels.