Bursary Coordinator

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Salary: £29,849.40 - £35,493.06 per annum

Closing Date: 20th August 2025

Interviews will be held w/c 25th August 2025

The recruitment process for this role will involve a short test for those invited to interview and a short informal meeting with the Head of Centrepoint Works

Please note, we may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Bursary Coordinator to join our Centrepoint Works based in London.

About us

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037 .

Together with our partners, we support over 15,000 young people each year.

The Role

You will be joining the Centrepoint Works Team to support young people to take their next steps towards employment, by providing an efficient delivery and administration of our bursary scheme, to help ease the financial barriers for young people accessing education, employment, or training.

We are looking for a coordinator to work within our bursary team. This post is based in London, however you will support the day-to-day function of the service provision to support all our Centrepoint services (covering London, Bradford, Barnsley, Sunderland and Manchester).

Hybrid Working

Centrepoint operates a hybrid working model. The requirement is a minimum of 50% of your working week. For most full-time colleagues, this means attending the office for five days over a two-week period (e.g., two days one week and three days the next). For colleagues on different contracts (including part-time or compressed contracts) this will be adjusted accordingly.

About you

• Effective communicator with natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
• Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
• Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
• Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
• Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
• Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.

What you’ll be doing

• Work closely with teams across the organisation, to promote and engage staff and young people into the bursary scheme
• To process and action bursary applications to maintain the service so that young people can access education, employment, training.
• Coordinate bursary panel meetings on a regular basis and recruit new members when necessary, to instil a fair grant decision making process.
• Responsible for learning travel bursary by issuing travel and processing travel returns for services nationwide.

What we’d be looking for from you

• Ideally hold a degree level qualification (desirable)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to support service delivery across relevant teams
• Possess IT skills necessary to undertake all administrative and reporting requirements
• Possess numeracy skills sufficient to ensure that all data is recorded accurately
• Have strong knowledge and understanding of the importance of working in an equal opportunity framework and a willingness to put this into practice
• A strong knowledge of working in line with safeguarding practices and legislation

Why join Centrepoint?

In return for your efforts you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

• 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
• Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
• Private Medical insurance
• Income protection
• Employer pension contributions of 5%
• Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
• An interest-free travel loan

At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.

Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.

Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Bursary Coordinator click ‘Apply’ now!