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Senior Project Officer

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN
34,582 per year
Remote
Full-time
14th April 2026
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Closing Date:

14 April 2026

Closing Date:

14 April 2026

  • Annually:£34,582 starting with home working allowance per annum
  • Region:Nationwide or Remote
  • Location:Nationwide
  • Department:Development & Implementation
  • Vacancy Type:Permanent
  • Working hours per week:35
  • Closing Date:14 April 2026

At the NSPCC, our innovative services are a vital part of our fight for every childhood. For over 130 years, we've been transforming lives by working directly with some of the most vulnerable children and families across the UK and Channel Islands.

Would you like to play a key role in our new School Attendance project? We're now seeking an energetic and passionate Senior Project Officer to join our Development and Implementation Team. initially focused in Grimsby and North East Lincolnshire, working in close collaboration with local partners to develop and test impactful approaches to improving school attendance over the next three years.

In this varied and fast paced role, you'll provide support to the Project Development Manager by managing workstreams, developing high‑quality resources, and working with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to harness their insight, expertise, and lived experience.

Do you bring?

  • Knowledge of the education sector and knowldge of the complex issues young people face around school attendance
  • Strong insight into safeguarding and alignment with the NSPCC's strategy
  • Proven experience in designing and developing innovative, evidence‑based services

This is a home‑based, flexible role, but will include frequent travel to Grimsby and occasional travel to other locations across the UK.

If you're passionate about improving outcomes for children and want to play a guiding part in an purposeful new initiative, we'd love to hear from you.

#LI-RW1

If you are interested in applying for this role, we encourage you to apply early. To help us manage the process we may close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive a strong response to the role.

In keeping with our values and our policies, if any individuals who are regrettably at risk of redundancy apply for a role and meet the minimum essential criteria they will be given priority consideration. We hope that you understand our position on this and that this will not discourage from applying. We cannot predict who, internally, will apply for a role, or whether they will meet the minimum essential criteria. Where no at-risk candidates meet the minimum essential criteria, all applications will be considered as normal.

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As an organisation, we are committed to creating and fostering a culture that promotes safeguarding and the welfare of all children and adults at risk. Our safer recruitment practices support this by ensuring that there is a consistent and thorough process of obtaining, collating, analysing and evaluating information from and about candidates to ensure that all persons appointed are suitable to work with our children and adults.

At the NSPCC we are on a journey to becoming a trauma-informed organisation for the children, young people and families that we work with, as well as our staff and volunteers. To be trauma-informed is one of the guiding principles that shape and guide our 2021-2031 Strategy. This means understanding the nature of adversity, trauma, and resilience so that we can work towards reducing and preventing further harm and promoting recovery and healing. Coming to work at the NSPCC will provide the opportunity for you to join us in our commitment to becoming a trauma-informed organisation.

NSPCC is that the NSPCC highly embraces,

encourages and promotes diversity and

inclusiveness of staff.

Siobhan Walters / Children's Services