Programme Intern

The deadline for this vacancy has passed.

Reports to	Programme Manager
Location	London (remote working considered)
Salary	£26,488.19 (We are committed to being a real Living Wage employer.)
Hours	Full time
Start date	ASAP
Contract	12 months, with the possibility of extension
Closing date for applications	2nd October 2024

About The Role

This role sits within the Unlocked Programme Team, which holds responsibility for designing and running training for our new cohorts as well as supporting them across their two years, to enable them to have the most impact possible.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate to support our Programme Team with a wide variety of tasks. The successful candidate will gain an insight into: delivery, curriculum, our work with our Ambassador community as well as the specific training required to become a prison officer.

Our main office is based in London (remote working may be able to be accommodated but this will be discussed with candidates on an individual basis). The programme is national and so some travel is required to Birmingham and Manchester.

About Unlocked

Unlocked Graduates exists to break cycles of reoffending. Currently prison isn’t able to do this, and over 50% of prisoners released from short-term sentences reoffend within a year. Not only does this recidivism make our communities less safe, but it also represents a huge waste of potential. And it’s expensive, costing the taxpayer over £18bn every year.

Prisons must focus on giving people the support they need to focus on rehabilitation in order to reduce reoffending. We believe the transformative relationships between prison officers and prisoners are key to this. Prison officers are the agents of change within prisons, and their position on the landings means that they are the only professional able to reach all the prisoners in their care to drive change and lead rehabilitative efforts.

Since 2016, we have sought to lead this change by inspiring, recruiting and training ambitious graduates to become outstanding prison officers with the aim of creating high-performing leaders to break cycles of reoffending in prisons and throughout society. We are creating a generation of leaders who believe that rehabilitation is possible. Since we were founded, nearly 900 prison officers have been recruited by Unlocked Graduates and placed in 38 different prisons across England and Wales.

Unlocked’s unique training and support model give our participants the skills and expertise they need to be excellent prison officers, lead rehabilitative efforts and drive improvements across the system. Our curriculum has been developed by our expert trainers who take an evidence-led approach to ensure that it applies the most effective teaching and learning methods.

Our award-winning, two-year graduate leadership development programme has put the prison officer role on the map as a career where people can develop extraordinary leadership skills whilst making a real difference. It has raised the status of the role, and Unlocked’s programme is currently ranked 22nd in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers list. We are recognised in the UK and internationally for the impact our participants are having on the landings.

How to Apply

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow this link to the application page.

The closing date for applications is 2nd October 2024.