Activist Development Support Officer

About this Role

The National Education Union is a powerful force for change in education, representing 500,000 teachers, lecturers, support staff, and leaders. As we have just completed an extensive staffing review, this is an exciting time to join us on our journey to becoming a more agile, strategic, and powerfully coordinated trade union—ready to meet the challenges of the future and drive lasting change in education.

We’re currently recruiting an Activist Development Support Officer to support the development, delivery and evaluation of the union’s activist development programme of training, conferences and activities, including our equality conferences.

Reporting to the National Organiser Activist Development, in this busy role you will assist the team to organise activist development initiatives and associated programmes of work across the team, liaising directly with relevant Organising Forum members, activists and local officers to ensure maximum member and activist engagement. You will also support the team in organising regular conferences for NEU local district and branch officers, taking the lead to co-ordinate the programme, issue event publicity, provision materials and liaise with staff to develop keynote, plenary and workshop session content.

We are looking for applicants with proven project management skills and the ability to handle multiple projects concurrently and devise event content, activities and support materials, including via digital platforms. The successful applicant will also need to have good knowledge of the NEU political, educational and legal contexts, and ideally would have previous trade union organising and recruitment experience, including working locally with trade union branches.

Crucial to this role will also be the applicant’s ability to work work independently, to exercise judgement and make decisions within accepted parameters and also engaging and working constructively with local officers and activists. The role will be based at Hamilton House, our London headquarters, and the NEU offers a hybrid working programme requiring the role holder to work from Hamilton House three days per week with the remaining days at home subject to operational needs.

In addition to salary, we offer good conditions including 33 days’ annual leave plus Christmas closure days and a defined benefit pension scheme. Salary and benefits will be calculated pro-rata for part-time applicants.

Further information

Further details can be downloaded from our website at https://neu.org.uk/working-neu where applicants will be able to complete an online application on our recruitment portal. Closing date is mid-day Monday 2 March 2026. We reserve the right to end the deadline early should we receive a high number of applicants.

We welcome applications from individuals seeking part-time, job-share or other flexible working arrangements.

THE UNION IS FUNDAMENTALLY COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES IN ITS POLICIES AND PRACTICE