Engagement & Events Coordinator

Grade/Salary:  Grade 5 Spinal Points 11 to 14  (FTE: £28,142 - £29,540)

Start Date:  ASAP

Full/Part Time: Part-time 22.5 hours/week, all year round, worked over 3 days

Contract: Permanent

Create. Inspire. Connect.  Make a real difference for local families.

Aspire Foundation is looking for a creative, community‑minded Engagement & Events Coordinator to help bring our vision to life: supporting children, families and communities to aspire and achieve.
If you love planning events, capturing great stories, creating engaging content and working with people, this is the role for you.

Why Join Us?

At Aspire Foundation, we believe in strengthening families, building confidence, and helping children thrive.

Through our whole‑family approach, we work with partners across health, education, housing, social care and local charities to give families the support they need - early, compassionately, and accessibly.

You will be joining a passionate, friendly and values‑driven organisation where kindness, inclusion, positivity and respect guide everything we do.

About the Role

As our Engagement & Events Coordinator, you will:

• Plan and deliver brilliant family and community events across Cheltenham and Tewkesbury
• Create inspiring digital content – photos, videos, stories and social media posts
• Work with families, partners and colleagues to bring our community spaces to life
• Showcase the impact of our Family Centres and Early Years services
• Support centre teams when needed, ensuring families are always welcomed warmly
• Occasionally be required to cover the front desk at our centres, acting as the first point of contact for visitors and ensuring a warm, professional welcome.

Every day, your work will help families feel connected, supported and empowered.

Who we’re looking for

You’ll thrive in this role if you are:

• Creative, enthusiastic and full of ideas
• Confident planning events or community activities
• Skilled in photography, video or digital content creation
• Warm, inclusive and great with people
• Organised, adaptable and happy to travel between centres
• Passionate about helping children and families aspire and achieve

What we can offer you:

• Support – through termly or six weekly supervisions and an Annual Performance Review.
• Training – on-going continued professional development which could include on the job training, work shadowing, courses and qualifications – all depending on what you need as a person and what the organisation needs now and in the future.
• A workplace pension scheme available for all qualifying staff.
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Generous annual leave allowance
• Death in service benefit

The post holder will be required to work at any of the Children and Family Centres operated by the Aspire Foundation across the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury area.

Ready to Join Us?

If you want your work to genuinely matter… this is the place for you!

Join us – and help shape a confident, well balanced next generation.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to share examples of digital content they have created at interview. We welcome portfolios in any format – this may include social media posts, campaign materials, photography, video, or other creative work.

Any appointment will be subject to references (which we will request for all short-listed candidates prior to interview) and a clear disclosure record from the DBS.

In accordance with a data retention policy we will keep all paperwork related to the recruitment of this post for 6 months after which it will be destroyed.

Aspire Foundation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young peopleand expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. This position is subject to an enhanced DBS check. 

Aspire Foundation aims to be an equal opportunities employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or race.

Application Details:

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