Training Programme Lead

Cast from Clay is a communications consultancy for those who work on policy change.

Most good ideas in the world of policy never make it to the desk of a decision-maker. That’s where we come in.

Our training program – including courses like Communicate to Persuade and Generative AI for Policy Communicators – is a key part of how we support the non-profit sector to build out their skills. We want to grow our training offer, and we’re looking for the person who can be the engine that powers that growth. Could it be you?

More about our courses here.

The job

Role type: Part-time
Schedule: 2 days/week (One to be spent in the office on a Tuesday or Thursday)
Salary: £40,000 full time equivalent
Location: Hybrid (We’re based in Vauxhall, London)
Start date: As soon as possible

Our training programme is growing and we need someone to own it — build on what we’ve already done and develop it further. We have a good idea on your short-term priorities, but beyond that it’s on you to shape it. In the short-term, we’ll want you to:

• Set up an institutional/organisational training offer (i.e. rather than individual sales, organisational sales)
• Set up marketing and sales processes (and run them)
• Identify future courses and people who can run them
• Build out an alumni network

You will be responsible for:

• Growth: Owning the programme’s growth strategy, including building an institutional offer for funders and NGOs.
• Marketing: Running the promotion of our public courses across social channels and professional networks to hit recruitment targets.
• Operations: Managing the student journey, from onboarding and payments to platform management (LMS).
• Development: Working with our course leaders to spot new opportunities and expand what we offer.
• Community: Keeping our alumni community engaged and supported alongside the wider team.

This is a 2 day per week commitment (with opportunity to increase the time as the programme grows).

Who you are

You’ll be someone who knows the world of foundations and non-profits well, you’ve probably worked in a few. Ideally, you’ve got a sense of the kinds of skills that these organisations need to develop (and that a communications consultancy could train on).

You’ll also be comfortable in a marketing and sales context, able to argue why an organisation should invest in our training platform, and what benefit it will provide to them.

You will be:

• Intellectually curious: You care about how ideas impact the world
• Commercially minded: You have experience in business development or selling professional services
• A self-starter: You can take a brief and run with it with very little hand-holding
• Facilitation experience: You’ve run workshops or trainings before and can hold a room.
• Marketing expertise: You understand how to promote a programme, how to build an audience across professional networks, and when to bring in additional expertise (e.g. SEO, PPC specialists) 
• Tech-literate: You’re comfortable managing digital platforms, payments, and comms tools. Experience with Howspace is an advantage.

Interested?

If this sounds like you, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Training Lead”. Please send us: 

1. How you would approach growing our training offer for institutions
2. Your CV (no more than 2 pages) or just your LinkedIn profile link
3. Why us?

Things to note

• You need to have permission to work in the U.K. already – we cannot sponsor visas for this role.
• We are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, class, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.