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Location: Ullswater, Lake District
Salary: £27,306 - £36,232 plus benefits (starting salary depending on experience.)
Hours of work: 37.5 hours per week. Monday - Friday.
Contract: Permanent.
Training: Full on-the-job training will be provided.
Holidays: 24 days a year (rising by a day a year to a maximum of 30 days) plus bank holidays.
Closing date for applications: 09.00 Monday, 14 October 2024.
At Outward Bound, you will play an instrumental part in the centre’s operation in delivering an impactful experience for young people.
Ideally you will be an experienced administrator with a problem solving approach, digitally confident, with experience of HR and financial administration.
Most importantly you will share our values and vision to inspire young people to realise their potential through learning and adventure.
We’re an educational charity that helps young people defy their limitations, so they become strong, resilient and curious, ready for the challenges of life.
Using learning and adventures in the wild, we partner with schools, colleges, employers and youth groups to teach their young people the most important lesson they could ever learn: to believe in themselves.
The Head of Administration reports to the Head of Centre and is responsible for providing day-to-day technical administration in all aspects of the administrative functions, which includes:
Our Ullswater and Howtown centres are based in the Lake District National Park and are two of six residential centres in the UK. Ullswater can accommodate up to 120 young people at any one time whilst Howtown accommodates up to 72. Both have their own unique identity and are ideally based to access the wider adventures on offer in the National Park.
To apply for this job please send a covering letter of no more than 2 sides of A4 explaining how your skills and experience fit to the job description and the person specification, together with an up-to-date CV. To complete your application, please be sure to include a covering letter. Please email: Dave Holmes at
workforus@outwardbound.org.uk quoting reference: HA Ullswater 1024.
Closing date: 09:00, Monday, 14 October 2024.
We will be reviewing applications periodically as they are received and may conduct interviews before the closing date. We reserve the right to close the recruitment process early where suitable candidates are identified and encourage an early application. An initial online screening interview will be held week commencing 21 October. Formal interviews will be held at the Centre week commencing 4 November.
If you have any queries regarding the role or the recruitment process, please contact Dave Holmes, Head of Centre, by email to book a time for an informal chat on dave.holmes@outwardbound.org.uk.
