Professional Adviser (London) - Rights Respecting Schools Award

This is a great opportunity to join the UK Committee for UNICEF (UNICEF UK) as a colleague within the Rights Respecting Schools Team. 

With knowledge and experience of child rights education in school settings, you will play a key role in the implementation of the RRSA in London. Liaising with colleagues and London Boroughs, you will recruit schools to the Programme, currently funded for London state schools by the Mayor of London’s Violence Reduction Unit. You will support schools by delivering our online training, conducting accreditations and writing supportive and developmental reports.  

The successful applicant will have: 

• Excellent knowledge of the CRC, the UK education landscape and the challenges facing school leaders at this time. 

• Well developed ICT and communication skills and a clear capacity to engage, motivate and support schools to progress on their rights respecting journey. 
• High levels of personal drive and motivation with a proven commitment to effective teamwork and delivering positive change for children. 

Please bear in mind that when you write your response to our application questions, you demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and understanding of the role requirements and how well UNICEF UK’s values and mission aligns with yours. Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT to generate your answers, will automatically exclude your application from our recruitment process.

In order to complete your application, please download the following:

Job Description – this includes the criteria for the role, which you will need to respond to as part of your application

Our Shared Commitment – our organisational values. Please demonstrate how you meet these in your application.

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