Our Vision, Mission & Values OUR VISION A society where everyone, regardless of background has equal opportunity to achieve long-term professional and personal success. OUR MISSION To prepare talented students from underrepresented backgrounds for career success through industry-specific education and training programmes. OUR VALUES Diversity: We value teamwork and champion diversity in all its forms, including diversity of thought. Innovation: We foster a culture of creativity and forward thinking. We continuously seek new ideas to support our service users while ensuring the meaningful engagement of our sponsors. Integrity: We act with integrity and communicate openly with all our stakeholders. Collaboration: We provide a collaborative and rewarding environment with continuous personal and professional development opportunities for all. Overview About SEO London SEO London is a registered charity in the UK dedicated to offering educational, training, and mentoring support to students and young professionals from low socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds. Our programmes foster pre-professional development, facilitate career access, and ensure long-term success in various competitive global industries. Since our establishment in 2000, SEO London has played a pivotal role in advancing workplace diversity and inclusion. Numerous alumni, who have benefited from our transformative initiatives, now occupy key positions in leading UK and global corporations and firms. Our collaborations span across industries such as investment banking, asset management, consulting, commercial real estate, technology, alternative investments, insurance, and corporate law. Through partnerships with our sponsor firms, we empower our participants by providing industry insights, employability support, and exclusive access to job and internship opportunities in their chosen sectors. Who we support SEO London supports students and young professionals from ethnic minority groups and low socioeconomic backgrounds. We aim to support those who need us the most. Ethnic minority groups: As per UK government guidelines, we use ethnic minority to describe all ethnic groups other than White British or other White backgrounds. Low Socioeconomic backgrounds: At SEO London, socioeconomic background is assessed as belonging to one or more of the following: household income, free school meal status, refugee or asylum seeker background, experience of local authority care, education and occupation of parents, and history of having lived in social housing. Role Description Role Description The role of a programme coordinator is ensuring the smooth running of all programme related events. This is a fixed term 12 months contract role. This will include having a full understanding of all the SEO London programmes; understanding the relevant industry that the programme supports; how these fits into the SEO London organisation and using this knowledge to liaise with students, young professionals and client/partner firms to run, organise and market successful events. In turn this role will be responsible for using data to run reports to show the impact of each programme. In coordination with the programme managers and other programme coordinators, will make recommendations for possible changes and ideas to further support the student and young professional experience. The role will also ensure a seamless and professional level of customer care to all participants. Accountabilities Accountabilities DAY TO DAY DELIVERY OF EVENTS Responsible for the overall administration all participants events, with specific responsibility to ensure student communication is exceptional. Including event management, student and partner communication and coordination of all the relevant stakeholders, along with posting roles on opportunities page and weekly newsletter STUDENT MANAGEMENT & QUERY HANDLING Responsible for the relationship management of the participants - including the ability to understand needs, resolve issues and anticipating and creating a strong relationship on behalf of SEO London Responsible for managing participants query escalations and to identify where there are opportunities to improve communication, marketing, or the type of events Responsible for managing the programme inbox (where applicable) Responsible for identifying creative and innovative ways to connect, educate and train participants and students. Provide oversight of cv support, screening, and recruitment preparation Responsible for attending campus events and representing SEO London professionally with knowledge and enthusiasm Organise mentoring and buddying allocations QUALITY ASSURANCE Responsible for ensuring that all information relating to the events and participant data is managed within the GDPR guidelines and is updated in Salesforce effectively for tracking purposes. Responsible for running reports to track and monitor events from the CRM Required qualifications Required qualifications University degree (any discipline) Skills and experience Skills and experience We are looking for applicants who have some demonstrable experience in some of the following skills and will be willing to learn and develop others: Project management Stakeholder management, preferably including professional corporate partners Organisation skills Having a keen interest and knowledge about the industries SEO London operates in, along with having a working knowledge of the student lifecycle (both school and University) Business writing skills Diversity and inclusion knowledge Database experience and analysing data Strong understanding of employability skills required by students to be job market ready Microsoft (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) - ability to create & edit documents in word, creating spreadsheets, tables & running and analysing pivot tables in excel; along with the ability to manage outlook and create PowerPoint slideshows. Ability to use Teams and Zoom to communicate and collaborate. Demonstrable communication and listening skills Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team Empathic approach to working with others What we offer? Annual Leave: 28 days Bank Holidays. Enhanced Family Friendly Policy. Enhanced pension scheme Flexible working (2 days in the office) and a lovely office space by Borough Station. Benefits: Employee Assistance Programme Discounted gyms via Medicash Charity workers discount Critical illness cover Cash plan healthcare and more Closing date for applications Closing date for applications : September 12th 2025 First and Second interviews: on rolling basis We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis. If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply as soon as possible. Equal opportunities Statement SEO London is committed to ensuring that no prospective or current employee is discriminated against on the basis of race, sex, gender, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, socioeconomic background, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic. We also strive to avoid disadvantaging individuals due to any condition or requirement that is not demonstrably justifiable. Safeguarding All posts at SEO London involve some degree of responsibility for safeguarding. Successful applicants are required to complete a Disclosure Form from the Disclosure and Barring Service ("DBS") for the position. Failure to declare any convictions (that are not subject to DBS filtering) may disqualify a candidate for appointment or result in summary dismissal if the discrepancy comes to light subsequently. Right to work Do you have the right to work in the UK? Unfortunately, at this time, we cannot provide sponsorship or consider overseas applications. About us Sp onsors for Educational Opportunity, Ltd. (SEO London) is a UK-registered charity delivering superior educational, training, and mentoring support to young people from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds. SEO London programmes focus on pre-professional development (Schools programmes), career access (Careers programmes) and long-term success within elite global industries (Alumni programmes). Launched in 2000, SEO London has subsequently delivered two decades of transformative leadership in the UK workplace diversity and inclusion segment. Thousands of S EO London alumni now work in the UK and global corporates and firms, many holding senior leadership positions.