Widening Participation Officer; Maternity Cover

Overview

Salary £29,740 to £36,446 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Location Jubilee Campus

Area Student & Campus Life

We are looking to appoint a committed and enthusiastic Widening Participation Officer to join our Access and Widening Participation team. This is a varied and rewarding role that combines programme and event planning with front-line delivery and prospective student support, for example with our Sutton Trust Pathways programmes and Summer Schools.

You will devise, coordinate, and deliver activities, in addition to supporting with collecting feedback, evaluating and contributing to continuous improvement of the programmes. You will provide support to prospective students as they undertake the UCAS process, identifying potential issues and signposting them to relevant services as needed. You will work with Student Ambassadors, academic colleagues and student support services to ensure a joined-up approach both on the programmes and as participants transition to the University of Nottingham.

In the Access and Widening Participation team, our outreach and programmes work is predominantly with groups that are under-represented in higher education in order to support aspirations and remove barriers to continuous learning. Our team delivers sessions to a wide range of age groups, from primary through to Post 16 and mature students.

You will be a committed professional with a good understanding of widening participation and knowledge of how to address these aims. You will bring:

• Excellent presentation, communication and organisational skills
• Experience of working with young people
• Experience of organising events and developing and implementing a range of projects or programmes
• An ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• An education at least up to A-Level (or equivalent)

You will have the opportunity to undertake meaningful work that supports our Access and Participation Plan and contributes to our vision of a fairer, more inclusive higher education landscape.

This full-time, maternity cover role is available from mid-April 2026 for twelve months and requires some work outside normal working hours, in the evenings and weekends, for which time is given back in lieu.

Your working hours will be 36.25 per week. If you are interested in part-time work (minimum 29 hours per week), we encourage you to apply. Please specify your preferred hours in your application.

Please note, our Summer School delivery weeks are 5–12 July and 12–17 July and are essential to this role.

Further information is available in the role profile. To apply for this vacancy please click “Apply Now” to complete your details.

Please contact Pete Bruce () if you have further questions about this role. Applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.

We aim to interview on either Wednesday 11th or Thursday 12th March.

It is a condition of this post that satisfactory enhanced disclosure is obtained from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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