📍 Remote | 💰 £60,000 + Benefits | 🗓️ Closing: 16th July 2025  

Do you want to use your experience to make a real impact? At Primary Engineer, we’ve spent 20 years inspiring children across the UK to see themselves as engineers — and now we’re looking for a dynamic senior leader to help us scale that impact even further.  

We’re a not-for-profit with bold ambitions. If you’re a strategic thinker with a proven track record in business development, partnerships and sales — and you want to lead with purpose — we want to hear from you.  

✨ Work from home 
📈 Lead strategy, growth and partnerships 
🧠 Join a mission-driven leadership team 
❤️ Benefits include health plan, life insurance, pension & additional leave  

📩 Apply with CV + cover letter by 16th July 
 
We’re seeking a visionary leader in business development and strategic partnerships who wants more than just a job. This is your chance to be part of a purpose-driven senior leadership team, where your work will have a direct impact on young people, teachers, and ultimately the future of engineering in the UK.  

You’ll bring energy, insight, and experience to bring in funding, expand our reach, nurture meaningful collaborations, and drive sustainable growth — all while leading a talented and motivated partnerships team.  

If you thrive on making connections, crafting strategy, and translating opportunity into impact, we’d really like to hear from you.  

  

What You’ll Be Doing  

Strategic Partnership Development  

• Identify, secure, and nurture partnerships with organisations aligned with our mission to amplify and increase our reach and impact  

• Negotiate, structure, and deliver partnership agreements across sectors to increase the diversity of industries we work with  

• Ensure our partners see the real value of our work together  

Business Development  

• Identify and close funding opportunities that help us grow and make a difference  

• Develop and implement smart, impactful strategic plans  

• Track, analyse, and optimise performance using data insights reporting and implementation  

Sales Leadership  

• Lead from the front, inspire the partnerships team to reach and exceed their goals  

• Design sales strategies that deliver results  

• Manage pipeline, forecast revenue, and continuously improve performance  

Cross-Team Collaboration  

• Work closely with our marketing, product, finance, and service delivery teams  

• Represent us at industry events and conferences with professionalism and passion  

Team Management  

• Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team  

• Coach, support, and celebrate their growth and achievements  

  

About You  

• A confident, compelling communicator who builds lasting relationships  

• A strategic thinker who can translate vision into action  

• Proven success in sales, partnerships, and business development  

• A leader with experience managing teams and delivering results  

• Data-literate, tech-savvy, and fluent in CRM and Office 365  

• A passion for education and a belief in engineering’s power to change lives  

• Strong presentation skills for diverse audiences  

• Bid writing and proposal development  

• A full UK driving licence  

  

Nice to have but not essential:  

• Experience in the engineering or STEM education sector  

• Experience in International Sales  

  

What We Offer  

• Salary: £60,000 per year  

• Company Pension Scheme  

• Life Insurance and Medical Health Cash Plan  

• 29 days holiday (inc. bank holidays), rising with service  

• Flexible home-based working  

• Full-time: 37.5 hours/week, Mon–Fri (08:30–16:30)  

• A role with purpose — and the freedom to innovate  

Please note: DBS check required. UK travel with occasional overnight stays will be expected.  

  

How to Apply 
To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter explaining why you’re the right person for this role to recruitment@primaryengineer.com.   

Are you ready to use your experience to make a difference?  

 

We are leaders in encouraging and inspiring Children to become Engineers and promoting Engineering as a career path. We’re looking for individuals who want to make a positive impact on the future careers of young people.

Our Service Delivery department play a key role within the business, creating the bridge between our Partners who fund our programmes and the Schools we work with.

Our Goal as a not-for-profit Company is to embed engineering into the fabric of every school, ensuring all children have the opportunity to engage with engineering from a young age.

 

The Role:

· Manage contract delivery including partner relationships, working to deliver in full and be pro-active whilst meeting company goals

· Operate as the point of contact for assigned contracts

· Develop and maintain long-term relationships with our external partners

· Work with Service Delivery Co-Ordinators to identify and recruit schools as part of contracts for funding partners, including encouraging Schools’ engagement on multiple fully-funded Primary Engineer Programmes

· Planning and delivering quality in-person events across the UK which excite and inspire the engineers of tomorrow

· Communicate effectively within the Service Delivery team and externally with a range of stakeholders in Education & Industry

· Ensure schools and funding partners receive requested products and services in a timely fashion as part of contract delivery

· Resolve schools and partners requests quickly, escalating where appropriate

· Forecast and track all relevant metrics in line with contracted deliverables and company targets

· Managing multiple partnerships across a large geographic area running concurrently with individual deadlines

· Keep up to date and accurate records of all contracts, ensuring information is shared quickly

· Providing reports back to the business and Partners upon completion of the programme

 

What You’ll Get:

· Salary £30,000 per annum

· Full-time role at 37.5 hours per week (8:30am – 4:30pm, Mon-Fri)

· 30 minutes lunch break each day

· 29 days holiday per year, including bank holidays

· Increasing holiday allowance

· Working with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies as part of their school outreach activities

· Opportunity to travel nationally with the Company

· Opportunities to engage with inspirational people and companies

· Health Cash Plan; including technology & retail savings, access to healthcare and wellbeing services, discounted gym memberships and more!

· Cycle scheme

· Life insurance at 3 times your salary

· Early finish on the last Friday of the month

· Casual dress

· Professional development opportunities and progression within a growing organisation

 

We’re looking for:

· At least 2 years’+ experience in a customer-focused role

· Excellent relationship-management skills with the ability to listen and communicate credibly and effectively both verbally and in writing

· Excellent organisational skills managing multiple contracts at the same time

· Experience in Contract Management or Event Planning would be beneficial

· Confidence in communicating with stakeholders from the outset

· Setting and working to effective objectives and timescales

· Good digital skills with Microsoft 365, Excel and Outlook and experience of using a CRM system

 

You do not have to meet 100% of the requirements to apply – we’re looking for individuals who share our passion about the aims and aspirations we have and wanting to make a positive impact on the future careers of young people.

 

If you want to work for a value led business who change lives through STEM & Engineering engagement, and you think you’re a good fit, then we want to hear from you!

 

To apply please submit a CV with covering letter.

We are leaders in encouraging and inspiring Children to explore Engineering as a career path. We’re looking for individuals who want to make a positive impact on the future careers of young people. 

Our Engineer Relationship department play a key role within the business, being the first point of contact and building our relationships with volunteer Engineering and Technology professionals who engage on our activities. 

Our Goal as a not-for-profit Company is to embed engineering into the fabric of every school, ensuring all children have the opportunity to engage with engineering from a young age. 

The Role: 

• Part-time, Monday-Friday. 10am – 2:30pm, with half hour break. (start/finish time can be flexible to arrangement) 

• Carry out administration to onboard Engineers including providing information and complete details onto system 

• Monitor email inbox/communications and process accordingly 

• Communicate with engineers to support involvement 

• Carry out administration on the CRM 

• Keep up to date and accurate records, ensuring information is shared quickly 

• Where suitable, opportunities to travel supporting at event activities 

• Work with other Primary Engineer departments to support Engineer involvement and engagement. 

• Report to Head of Service Delivery on activities 

What You’ll Get: 

• Salary £25,000 pro-rata 

• Company Medical Health Cash Plan for all employees 

• 29 days holiday per year pro-rata, including bank holidays 

• Increasing holiday allowance 

• Professional development opportunities within a growing organisation 

• Working with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies as part of their school outreach activities 

• Opportunity to travel nationally and internationally with the Company 

• Opportunities to engage with inspirational people and companies, joining industry site visits and conferences 

• Casual dress at Burnley HQ offices, working in a relaxed environment with a great team of people. 

We’re looking for: 

• At least 1 years’+ experience in a customer-service administrative role 

• Excellent relationship-management skills with the ability to listen and communicate credibly and effectively both verbally and in writing 

• Ability to work to objectives and agreed timeframes 

• Excellent organisational skills with attention to detail to support with the administration of multiple contracts at the same time. 

• Good digital skills with Microsoft 365, Excel and Outlook and experience of using a CRM system 

• Confidence in speaking on the telephone/video calls 

You do not have to meet 100% of the requirements to apply – we’re looking for individuals who share our passion about the aims and aspirations we have and wanting to make a positive impact on the future careers of young people. 

If you want to work for a value led business who change lives through STEM & Engineering engagement, and you think you’re a good fit, then we want to hear from you! 

To apply please submit a CV with covering letter. 

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent 

Salary: £25,000 (pro rata) per year