Posted Friday 18 July 2025 at 00:00 | Expires Friday 15 August 2025 at 23:59
Hours: 37.5 hours over 5 days per week
Duration: Permanent
Working Pattern: May include weekends, evenings and bank holidays
Overview:
West Midlands Safari Park are sourcing applicants for the role of Course Coordinator to join our Education team.
The post will support our expanding program of animal care courses to ensure the provision meets the needs of learners, employers and other stakeholders.
The Course-Co-Ordinator will ensure the efficient planning, organisation, communication and delivery of the courses, including liaising with students, tutors and college examination staff.
Main Roles & Responsibilities:
* Leading the co-ordination and delivery of educational accredited courses, ensuring all content, delivery and assessments are in line with the guidelines set by external educational establishment and/or awarding bodies.
* Creating timetables for teaching that fit with both required teaching commitments and staffing budgets throughout the year, ensuring all required resources are allocated as part of the process.
* Creating all content and planners required for the successful delivery of each accredited course.
* Co-ordinating the allocation of teaching staff on a daily basis, ensuring tasks are communicated efficiently and all deadline are met.
* Evaluation of onsite accredited course content and its delivery, ensuring continuous improvements are pro-actively made to enhance the learning experience.
* Responsible for ensuring all teaching staff are appropriately trained and developed in line with all educational accredited course elements.
* Deliver onsite accredited courses, ensuring content is inline with student needs and appropriate schemes of work, and lesson plans are created for each session.
* Assessment of accredited courses, ensuring marking standards are in line with external educational establishment and awarding body guidelines.
Education / Qualifications:
* Minimum degree level qualification in Animal Care, Animal Management, Zoology, Conservation or related subject is essential
* Teaching, presenter or educator experience is essential, alongside a formal teaching qualification
* Previous experience working in an education setting in a Course Co-ordinator role or similar is desirable
As well as benefiting from workingin aunique and beautifulsetting, you’ll also receive a range of additional perks to employment including:
* WMSP Annual Pass which gives you and your family and friends free admission and theme park wristbands, and free entry to our sister site Drayton Manor Park.
* 35% Discount in our retail and catering outlets and off park special events.
* 24 Hour access to an online doctor and access to online prescriptions.
* Counselling access.
* Free onsite parking.
What we are
West Midlands Safari Park is and award-winning visitor attraction, located in Worcestershire in the heart of England. It is home to some of the world's most beautiful and critically endangered species, with four-mile safari drive-through, walk through Discovery Trail, African Village and Lemur Woods, as well beautiful walking trails, allowing guests to experience up close encounters with hundreds of exotic animals. Guests can also choose from a wide range of catering and retail outlets, as well as enjoying a large amusement area with over 25 rides and attractions providing the ideal venue for family days out.
In 2021, the park introduced Safari Lodges - luxury accommodation allowing guests to stay overnight for the first time. Guests can wake up to incredible sights of elephants, giraffe, rhino and red panda, or sleep just a 'whisker' away from lions, tigers and cheetahs.
In addition, the park is home to three incredible venues -Spring Grove House, Tree Tops Pavillion and Cellarz which play host to weddings, corporate events and social celebrations.
What we do
Our mission is to bring people together to create a unique wildlife experience that exhilarate, educate and leave memories to last a life time.
Our 200-acre site allows us to do just that, whether you're a day guest, wedding guest or overnight guest! We create experiences unlike no other, attracting visitors from across the Midlands and beyond.
Our brand and our team members live by our core values. We're passionate and work with a sense of togetherness, always striving to be progressive, with preservation at the heart of everything we do, all while creating unforgettable experiences.
Through these principles we aspire to achieve our vision: to be the number one UK Wildlife attraction through the creation of immersive animal habitats and unique visitor experience.
Application Closing Date: Friday 15th August 2025
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