Project Officer, Literacy Champions (Liverpool)

Project Officer, Literacy Champions (Liverpool)
£26,000 per year pro rata (0.8 FTE) / £20,800 per year
28 hours per week
Permanent contract
Based in Liverpool as a home working role

We empower people with the literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Together, we're helping people change their stories. You could join us to support our work with volunteers across Liverpool.

What you’ll be doing

Our Literacy Champions project identifies, trains and supports volunteers who work with us to design new and exciting ways to promote literacy in their community. We currently have over 1,000 Literacy Champions across the country.

We are recruiting a Project Officer to deliver this work across Liverpool, with a particular focus on reaching preschool children and their families. You will report to a local project manager, and work closely with our national communities team, early years team and our partners at the Very Group. You will be responsible for developing new strategies for recruiting volunteers and mobilising key community partnerships to increase our reach and build sustainability. This will include organising training events, maintaining regular contact with volunteers, gathering data, sharing learning and developing case studies to build an evidence base of impact.

You will be based in Liverpool, working from home with regular travel locally, as well as national travel when necessary. This will include coming to London three times per year for our regular staff days, as well as induction. Travel around the local area, and from Liverpool to London, will be covered by our expenses policy.

What we’re looking for

You will be experienced in recruiting, training and supporting volunteers, and providing project support in a charity or educational context. You will have excellent knowledge of literacy issues, working with early years settings and community-based organisations, coupled with experience of developing resources and training materials.

Due to the nature of delivery, you will need a full clean driving license and access to your own vehicle. This role will also involve managing book stocks and other resources.

Why our work is so vital

Literacy changes everything.

It gives you the tools to get the most out of life, and the power to shape your future. It’s the key to knowledge, confidence and inspiration. It’s better results at school, and better jobs. If children grow up without the tools to communicate, without books to read or opportunities to write, it’s harder to get where you want to go.

The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity helping people overcome these challenges and change their life chances through the power of words – reading, writing, speaking and listening. From first words, through school days, to training, jobs and beyond.

- We work collaboratively in local communities, focusing our work in 20 areas of the UK that are facing the biggest challenges.
- We support schools, developing the most effective tools and techniques and providing resources and programmes to engage and inspire children.
- We campaign to make literacy a priority for politicians and decision-makers.
- We support vulnerable adults, people in the criminal justice system and young offenders’ institutions to build their literacy skills.

What we offer you

Our team are passionate about our mission, and we have a strong and positive working culture, based on shared values and respect. We offer a range of flexible working options and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

As well as a competitive salary, we offer benefits including a generous leave allowance totalling 39 days (including bank holidays and office closure between Christmas and New Year), pension contributions of 8% of annual salary, a cycle to work scheme, employee assistance programme and other health and wellbeing benefits.

We support flexible working and promote a workplace where you can be yourself and contribute to our success, whoever you are.

Application details

Our people are our most important asset, and we value and respect diversity in all its forms (seen and unseen). We particularly welcome applications from those from Black and Asian backgrounds, as well as candidates with disabilities and from the communities in which we work. We would like to increase the representation of these groups among our staff, as we know greater diversity will lead to an even greater impact for our work.

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Closing date: 10am, Wednesday 8 April 2026.

Please note, we do not accept CVs. No agencies or recruitment sites. Registered charity no. 1116260 (England and Wales) and SC042944 (Scotland).