Project Coordinator

The purpose of this role is to contribute towards the development of high-quality and world leading training and development for young people and their trainers. The Project Coordinator will take responsibility for the mobilisation of our Performance and Wellbeing Team, in addition to coordinating the logistics and delivery of special events, bootcamps and the UK entries into the WorldSkills International Competitions.

We develop highly agile, resilient, and skilled young professionals who represent and compete as Team UK in the WorldSkills Competition. WorldSkills is the global hub for skills excellence, and we use the knowledge gained from our participation and engagement to drive the greatest skills education from across the world into UK practice.

The successful applicant will have strong planning and work organisation skills, the ability to communicate effectively at all levels, with experience of supporting fast paced complex programmes as well as coordinating multiple projects and events to a high standard.

WorldSkills UK is a four nations partnership between education, industry and UK governments. It is a world-class skills network acting as a catalyst for:

• raising standards, through international benchmarking and professional development
• championing future skills, through analysis of rapidly changing economic demand
• empowering young people, from all backgrounds, through competitions-based training and careers advocacy.

We are working to help the UK become a ‘skills economy’, boosting the prestige of technical and professional education by embedding world-class training standards across the UK to help drive investment, jobs and economic growth.

We’re a proud member of WorldSkills, a global movement of over 80 countries. WorldSkills supports young people across the world via competitions-based training, assessment and benchmarking, with members’ national teams ultimately testing their ability to achieve world-class standards in the biennial ‘skills olympics’. The insights we gain from training as part of this global network enables us to embed world-class training standards across the UK to help drive investment, jobs and economic growth.

At WorldSkills UK we value equity, diversity and inclusion and recognise that it is critical to our success.

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all who work with us and strongly encourage applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation.

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, we guarantee interviews to all disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies and are committed to making reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process to enable candidates to perform to the best of their ability.