Victoria, Gwent
Ada. National College for Digital Skills
Welcome to Ada!
We are Ada, the National College for Digital Skills, a high performing technical college with the mission of educating and empowering the next generation of diverse digital talent.
We work with a fantastic roster of partners such as King, IBM, Deloitte, Salesforce and Bank of America and offer an innovative, supportive sixth form experience for our 150+ students that prepares them to be digital pioneers achieving both academic success and, more importantly, setting them up for successful careers in tech. We are passionate about harnessing tech as a tool for social mobility and improving diversity of opportunity and therefore, with the support of our partners, place a major focus on diversity recruitment. At present over 50% of our students come from low income backgrounds, more than 50% are from Black, Asian or Mixed backgrounds and 23% are young women. We are the top performing sixth form for computer science in the country with >90% of our students going on aspirational digital degree apprenticeships, tech related degree courses or straight into junior technical roles.
This is an exciting time to join Ada as we move into our new state-of-the-art campus in August 2023, just a few minutes walk from Victoria station. The new campus provides us with the capacity to significantly increase our student volumes and meet our ambitious target of transforming 10,000 lives by the end of 2030 while ensuring that we achieve our mission to make the tech sector more representative targeting 50% of learners to be female, 50% to be from ethnic minority backgrounds and 50% to be from low income backgrounds.
We’re passionate about building a supportive, values driven environment for both our students and staff and this is where you come in!
A message from Tina Götschi, Principal
I joined Ada because I recognised a workplace and leaders who want to educate young people differently. I really want you to join Ada and feel you can play an integral part in the College as we evolve towards Ada 2.0, embodied by our relocation to our new campus in Pimlico.
I am interested in finding people who are keen to make a contribution to our vision. I am looking an Outreach and Recruitment Officer who is super passionate about our mission, to educate and empower the next generation of diverse digital talent, and is focused on continuing to grow the quality of the sixth form intake, in London and beyond, so we can remain England’s No.1 specialist digital college
What’s your mission?
We are searching for a Senior Outreach Officer to join our dynamic team delivering an exciting range of outreach and recruitment activities driving the recruitment of diverse digital talent into our Sixth Form programmes:
Key responsibilities of this role include:
We’d really like to hear from you, if
Line Management
Manage a team member deployed to work in your team including :
Safeguarding
Ada, National College for Digital Skill is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. The successful candidate will be required to have an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS check and references will be sought from previous employers prior to commencing employment. Other related pre-employment checks appropriate to the post will also be carried out.
We care about equity, diversity and inclusion
Ada. National College for Digital Skills recognises that equality of opportunity and the recognition and promotion of diversity are integral to its strengths. The following principles apply in respect of the College’s commitment to equality and diversity:
Applicants with disabilities – Ada is keen to increase the number of disabled people it employs. We, therefore, encourage applications from individuals with a disability who are able to carry out the duties of the post. If you have any additional needs in relation to your application please contact us.
Sponsorship – Sadly, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role so can only accept applications from candidates who have the legal right to work and remain in the United Kingdom.
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