The Brilliant Club
Recruitment Pack

Community Organiser

(Oldham Parent Power)

November 2025

Registered Limited Company: 07986971

Registered Charity: 1147771 (England and Wales), SC048774 (Scotland)

Registered Office: Fivefields, 8-10 Grosvenor Gardens, London, SW1W 0DH

Community Organiser (Oldham Parent Power)

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £10,944.40 per annum (0.4 FTE - salary is pro-rated from £27,361)

Contract Type: Part Time, Fixed term until 31st July 2028
Line Manager: Communities Officer
Location: This is a remote role with no requirement to attend a central office on a regular
basis. However, the postholder will need to travel within and around Oldham as part of
their role. Occasional travel to organisational events in London or Leeds may also be
required.

About the role
We are excited to recruit a Community Organiser for our  Oldham Parent Power project. This role
offers  a  meaningful,  paid  professional  development  opportunity. The  Brilliant  Club  will  work  in
partnership with Trinity College, University of Cambridge to engage with parents in Oldham. Oldham
Parent  Power  is  an  established  project  which  utilises  the  community  organising-based  model first
created by King’s College London and Citizens UK with South London Parent Power.

Parent Power supports parents and carers to develop skills in community organising and advice
and guidance on accessing higher education, empowering them to make change to support
their children’s future and ensure that they have a fair chance in education and their future
careers.

Working with us, the Community Organiser will:

•  Support

local  pupils

from  underrepresented  backgrounds  by  empowering

their

parent/carers to become higher education experts;

•  Receive community organising training from Citizens UK and develop transferable skills;
•  Build campaigns to combat local educational barriers with parent/carer communities;
•  Join a nationwide community of community organisers making a significant impact on

university access.

About you

The role will best suit someone who:

Essential

•  Has knowledge of challenges faced in Oldham’s communities.
•  Has a demonstrable passion for furthering The Brilliant Club’s mission.
•  Can adhere to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual

(information security training provided).

Desirable

•  Has prior experience of community focused work.
•  Understands the current climate in the UK school system and some of the challenges young

people and parent/carers might be facing.

•  Understands the barriers young people face to university access and some of the ways

these might be overcome.

About The Brilliant Club

What we do
Access to higher education and the life-changing opportunities that come from attending the
most competitive universities is not equal. 1 in 3 of the most advantaged students progress to the
most competitive universities. In contrast, only 1 in 33 of the least advantaged young people
access these universities.

We think this is fundamentally unfair. We work across the UK to support less advantaged students
to access the most competitive universities, and to succeed when they get there.

Between 2021 and 2026, we will work with 100,000 students across the UK to help them to develop
the knowledge, skills and confidence to access the most competitive universities. We will also
support 11,000 students from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed once they enter
universities.
We hope that you’ll consider joining us, as we work to create a fairer society where no child’s
education is limited by their background.

Working for us

•  Hours: 15 hours per week (0.4 FTE). We are happy to talk flexible working.
•  Benefits include: 36 days’ holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year

up to a maximum of 41 days (pro rata for 0.4 FTE), employer contribution to pension,
interest-free season ticket loan, professional development day allowance, BUPA health
cover cash plan.

•  Based: Oldham. Some travel will be required, although some meetings and 1-2-1s may be

held online (travel expenses reimbursed).

Our values

•  We get to a solution
•  We seek and act on the best data available

•  We understand that little things go a long way

“As the first in my family to go to university and having worked as a teacher in a

state school, I applied to join The Brilliant Club with a real passion for the
charity’s mission. I am grateful every day that I work at a charity that is
supportive of both professional development and flexible working, as well as
being full of kind and passionate colleagues.”

   Leanne, Chief Operating Officer

Diversity at The Brilliant Club
We mobilise the PhD community to support students who are less advantaged to access the most
competitive universities and succeed when they get there. We think it is important that our charity
reflects the lived experience of the communities we work with, and we want to be an
organisation where employees from any background can thrive. We particularly welcome
applications from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Non-binary
(LGBTQ+) candidates, and candidates from low-income families.

 “I am the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Engagement Lead at The
Brilliant Club. My role is to help make the charity an inclusive working
environment for all of our colleagues.  I work with our amazing Staff Networks
and colleagues in HR to ensure everyone at the charity has a sense of
belonging.”

Emily - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Staff Engagement Lead

Safeguarding
The Brilliant Club is committed to proactively safeguarding children, beneficiaries and staff and to
taking reasonable steps to protect all those who come into contact with the charity from harm.
The safety and welfare of everyone affected by the charity’s activities, especially children, is a key
governance priority.

As part of our recruitment and selection process and commitment to safeguarding, we will
undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check of all individuals in this role. Any offer of
employment will be subject to a satisfactory disclosure report.

Responsibilities

The following areas of responsibility are the core of the role. However, the role is flexible and will
vary according to the needs of the team, and the background and experience of the successful
applicant.

Events Organization
•  Organise introduction events at schools and community settings for parent/carers.

Parent/Carer Group Meetings
•  Facilitate parent/carer group meetings every six weeks in collaboration with project partners.

Sessions in these meetings will provide information, advice and guidance to parent/carers and
provide an opportunity to build a team of parent/carer leaders who can drive change in their
local communities.

•  Build and develop strong relationships with parent/carers to discuss their views and concerns

around their children’s education, using community organising techniques such as relational 1-
1s.

•  Plan and deliver some university guidance sessions for parent/carer meetings with support from

The Brilliant Club and/or delivery partners.

•  Collaborate with delivery partners to plan and deliver a celebratory event for the families of

parent/carers on the project.

Communication With Stakeholders
•  Maintain excellent communication with The Brilliant Club and other project stakeholders.
•  Develop relationships with key community stakeholders.
•  Engage with opportunities for development and reflective practice offered by The Brilliant

Club.

Impact
•  Maintain excellent record keeping and data collection standards to support impact and

evaluation of the project.

•  Ensure effective management and monitoring of project data, and conduct other

administrative tasks as required.

Person specification

Time and Resource Management
•  Essential – Able to plan sessions in an organised and efficient manner and adhere to agreed

deadlines.

•  Essential – Excellent timekeeper, ensuring prompt arrival to meetings and 1-1s; well organised

within 1-1s and sessions.

•  Essential – Capable of adapting quickly to new systems/ processes.

External Stakeholder Knowledge and Management
•  Essential – Ability to work in a way that promotes the safety and wellbeing of children and

young people.

•  Essential – Professional approach to problem solving with a range of stakeholders involved in

the project.

•  Essential – Awareness of role as a visitor within a school and parent/carer community;
understanding of the other commitments held by professionals within a school and by
parent/carers.

•  Essential – Understanding of, and commitment to furthering, The Brilliant Club mission.
•  Desirable – Ability to understand and relate to the barriers faced in the local community.
•  Desirable – Ability to understand the barriers young people face to university access and some

of the ways these might be overcome.

•  Desirable – Ability to understand the current climate in the UK school system and some of the

challenges young people and parent/carers might be facing.

Communication
•  Essential – Awareness of how to engage parents and adapt university style learning for a

school setting.

•  Essential – Able to communicate in a timely and professional way with all project stakeholders.
•  Essential – Able to take a relational approach to communication with parent/carers, especially

in 1-1s.

•  Desirable – Experience of group facilitation.

Developing Self and Others
•  Essential – Able to identify strengths and areas of development, open to feedback.

Role Specific Knowledge and Skills
•  Essential – adhere to information security policies included in the charity’s ISO 27001 manual

and complete information security training

What comes next:
To apply: Please submit your application by clicking here. As part of your application, you will be
asked to submit your CV and complete the answers to some application questions.
Deadline: 9am on Monday 5 January 2026
Interviews: Tuesday 13 January 2026. Interviews will take place virtually on Microsoft Teams
For more information: Visit our website or email recruitment@thebrilliantclub.org.