Student and Early Career Engagement Officer

Responsibilities

• Support member growth: Help students understand and access the full range of IOP benefits, supporting recruitment, retention and progression from Associate Member to Member.
• Champion student engagement: Build strong relationships with ambassadors and university physics societies across the UK and Ireland, helping student leaders create engaging activities that strengthen participation, belonging and connection to the wider physics community.
• Lead engagement programmes: Deliver flagship initiatives including PLANCKS, FUSE, CAPS and help shape the inaugural IOP Early Careers Conference in 2027.
• Create meaningful experiences: Design and deliver a programme of events, workshops and opportunities that support students and early career members to develop skills, networks and confidence
• Recruit and develop ambassadors: Recruit, support and inspire a network of Campus Ambassadors and Student Panel members, helping them represent the student voice and shape the future of engagement at the IOP.
• Build partnerships and influence: Work collaboratively with universities, volunteers, professional bodies and colleagues across the IOP to strengthen engagement and maximise impact.
• Projects you work on may include: Deliver flagship student events such as PLANCKS preliminaries, FUSE, and the Conference of Astronomy and Physics Students (CAPS).
• Help shape the IOP Early Careers Conference in 2027, creating a flagship opportunity for students and early career physicists to develop skills, expand their networks, explore career pathways, and feel part of a thriving physics community.
• Develop toolkits and grant schemes for physics societies to innovate and increase participation.
• Lead ambassador and student panel programmes, ensuring strong campus presence and engagement.

Requirements

• Experience engaging students, early career professionals, members, volunteers or communities through outreach, education, careers, engagement or membership programmes
• Proven ability to deliver events and programmes from planning to evaluation
• Skilled at building partnerships with universities and societies
• Working with volunteers or committees

Preferred

• Experience in a membership organisation or charity

Benefits

• An excellent pension scheme
• Private medical insurance, life assurance, eye care vouchers, annual flu vaccinations, long service awards, employee assistance programme
• Floating bank holidays (choose where to take your bank holidays throughout the year)
• Generous annual leave (25 days starting as a standard)
• Flexible working and much more