Work with BookTrust

BookTrust is the UK's largest reading charity. Each year we reach millions of children across the UK with books, resources and support.

Our books and resources are delivered via health, library, schools and early years practitioners and are supported with guidance to encourage the development of a reading habit. Reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on educational outcomes, wellbeing and social mobility and is also a huge pleasure in itself. We are committed to starting children on their reading journey and supporting them throughout. 

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Trusts and Foundations Officer

Salary: £30,000 to £35,000 per annum, depending on experience

Location: London (BookTrust is a hybrid working organisation with two fixed office days: Tuesday and Wednesday).

Contract: Permanent, Full Time.

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum, depending on experience

This is why we work with families, supporting them to start sharing stories and books together from the earliest possible age.​ Our carefully selected books and well-researched programmes are delivered by thousands of local partners, bringing the magic of reading to children in every community in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

This is an exciting new role at BookTrust that will challenge and provide excellent career development opportunities for the successful candidate. This role is integral in supporting BookTrust to develop its presence in the trust and foundations world. You will contribute to the creation and support the management of a high-quality pipeline of new trust and foundation opportunities and inspire them with the potential of BookTrust’s impactful projects that includes our new early years programme that is supporting the future life chances of 400,000 pre-school children every year.

Our ideal candidate will be confident and outgoing with experience of personally developing multiple four and five figure funding relationships from trusts and foundation. We are seeking someone with great communication skills who can write with flair to develop compelling applications and reports and speak passionately and articulately about BookTrust’s work to the staff and trustees of trusts and foundations.

You will be efficient and be able to manage competing deadlines. You will have a strong eye for detail and have good time management skills. You will be able to work independently and as part of a team with common goals. 

You will be collaborative by nature as success in this role will require working well with colleagues and teams from across BookTrust who can support the success of our trust fundraising and engage our partners with our large-scale programmes.

To apply please send a copy of your CV to [email protected] along with a covering letter showing how you meet the person specification and your motivations for applying for the role. Your covering letter should not be longer than two sides.

Closing date:  Thursday, 16^th May 2024 at 12 noon. We are reviewing CVs on a rolling basis. Interviews will be on Wednesday 22^nd and Thursday 23^rd May.

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Digital Transformation Project Manager

Location: London (BookTrust is a hybrid working organisation with two fixed office days: Tuesday and Wednesday)

Contract: Fixed Term Contract (12 months), Full Time.

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 per annum

BookTrust has evolved in recent years, with a new strategic focus, to better meet the needs of our users, delivery partners, supporters and colleagues. We now have the opportunity to re-imagine our website offer in line with these developments and as such we are investing in a full redesign and redevelopment of www.booktrust.org.uk. At the same time, we want to find new ways of using digital technologies to further support and enhance our work and increase our impact – working towards a wider digital transformation at the charity. 

This role is key to supporting the Head of Digital and wider Digital team with: 

• day-to-day project management of the website revamp;
• exploring and experimenting with new uses of digital to support our delivery partners and end users;
• digital upskilling and staff development to help all BookTrust staff use digital and social media to deliver their work and amplify the charity’s messages. 

To apply please send a copy of your CV to [email protected] along with a covering letter showing how you meet the person specification and your motivations for applying for the role. Your covering letter should not be longer than two sides.

Closing date:         Wednesday, 15^th May 2024 at 12 noon.

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Trustees (three positions)

Location: England
Remuneration: This is a voluntary position but includes reasonable expenses.
Time commitment: An initial term of three years, which can be renewed for two terms.

We have a fantastic opportunity for three individuals to join our passionate and skilled Board. 

Our Board is committed to bringing the value of reading (and the joy) to disadvantaged children across the UK. Becoming a BookTrust Trustee offers scope to positively influence the life outcomes for millions of children, through the benefits of reading.

For this intake of Trustees, we are seeking individuals offering expertise in Systems Thinking (working through complex at scale partnership models), Income Generation, Influencing (especially across national, regional and local government) and also in Communications and Digital.

We value a diversity of thought and of experience in our Board and encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of disadvantage and from under-represented communities. We would also particularly welcome applicants from the North of England.

For more information, please click on the 'get more information and apply' button below. To arrange a confidential conversation, please contact Oliver Startup at [email protected] or Emily Nevins at [email protected].

Closing Date: 5pm, Friday 10 May

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Our commitment to diversity and inclusivity

We aim to provide an inclusive recruitment process and actively welcome applications from diverse talent pools: BAME candidates, candidates with disabilities and long-term conditions and candidates from under-represented communities.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and want to ensure we have an accessible application process for all candidates. If you need any reasonable adjustments or would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact our HR team on [email protected] or 020 7801 8855/8856 to discuss your requirements further.

In order that our equality policy is effective we carry out regular monitoring of job applicants, and we would therefore ask you to complete the equality monitoring form.This information will be kept centrally within our secure HR department, completely separate from your recruitment application form and will be used for the sole purpose of compiling statistical information. The information will be separated from the application form and will not be given to the selection panel. The completed monitoring form will be destroyed once the information given in it has been collated.

BookTrust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The recruitment and selection process reflect our commitment to safeguarding, therefore the suitability of all prospective employees will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment, with pre-employment checks.

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