Strategic Partnerships Project Coordinator - #1759660

Location: Sheffield/Remote

Annual Salary: Starting at £26,000

Contract: Permanent

Line Manager: Niamh Russell (Strategic Partnerships Project Manager)

Recruiter: Claire Bonnett

Hours: 37.5

Closing Date: 25/6/25

Overview

Be Part of Something Big - Support Global Partnerships That Shape Education

Are you highly organised, detail-oriented, and ready to take your first or next step in project coordination? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and love the idea of contributing to projects with world-renowned brands? If you’re looking to grow your skills and make a meaningful impact in education worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.

Join Our Strategic Partnerships Team

As a Project Coordinator within Twinkl’s Strategic Partnerships team, you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality educational resources in collaboration with some of the world’s biggest names. With our partnership work growing rapidly in scale and importance, you’ll provide crucial day-to-day support to ensure everything runs smoothly - from detailed planning and team communications to international project delivery.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll support the Project Manager and wider team by keeping projects on track, coordinating internal teams, and helping ensure every partner receives timely updates and outstanding service. Your efforts will help us scale our global impact while maintaining the quality and consistency our partners expect.

Ongoing Projects/how You’ll Spend Your Day

Production Coordination

• Drive daily coordination of a team of writers, editors and designers to keep high-profile projects moving and on track.
• Be responsible for updating and maintaining relevant project management tools (e.g., Jira), tracking task progress, and identifying risks before they become roadblocks.
• Help lead daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, or retros to ensure everyone is aligned and empowered.
• Keep the big picture in focus by managing project timelines, team dashboards, and weekly reports that provide clear visibility to stakeholders.
  
  

Champion Partner Communication

• Coordinate feedback from our partners to ensure it’s communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Create and track meeting agendas, follow-up actions and confirm timely resolution of any issues.
• Maintain detailed communication with international teams to ensure timely delivery of high-impact projects.
  
  

Identify and Propose Process Improvements

• Support and collaborate with the Project Manager in designing and implementing new processes that drive productivity and efficiency.
  
  

To Succeed In The Role, You Will

• Passion for Making a Difference: Demonstrates a strong commitment to supporting projects that positively impact children worldwide.
• Data-Driven Coordination: Harnesses data insights to streamline day-to-day task management and improve overall project delivery.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building and nurturing relationships with high-profile partners, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
• Relationship Skills: Comfortable juggling multiple high-impact partnerships, ensuring exceptional support and on-time completion of key tasks.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Proactively identifies new ways to streamline processes and remove blockers, helping projects run smoothly from start to finish.
  
  

In This Role, You Will Learn

• How to manage complex, high-impact projects from start to finish in a fast-paced environment.
• Best practices in project management, including project planning, resource tracking, stakeholder updates, and risk mitigation.
• How to use tools such as Jira and Google Workspace for project tracking progress, reporting, and improving workflows.
• How to collaborate with global teams across time zones and disciplines to ensure seamless project delivery.
• How to communicate professionally and clearly with a wide range of stakeholders, from internal creative teams to international brand partners.
• How to handle and integrate partner feedback, ensuring changes are implemented effectively while maintaining project timelines.
• How to identify inefficiencies in workflows and propose meaningful, data-informed improvements that have real impact.
• How to balance multiple priorities, manage deadlines, and coordinate workloads in a high-stakes environment.
  
  

You’ll Work With

• The Strategic Partnerships team at Twinkl
• The Brand Marketing team at Twinkl
• Some of the largest organisations in the world, from Hollywood studios, production studios, major publishing houses, leading charities and public figures
  
  

We're interested in anyone who meets one, or a combination of the following:

• Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, Microsoft Project)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or similar suites
• Comfortable learning new software and systems quickly
• Capable of juggling multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously
• Adept at tracking small but crucial details across different projects
• Excellent and clear communication
• Eagerness to suggest new ideas or creative solutions
• Proactive about identifying potential obstacles and troubleshooting them early
• Experience producing clear, structured documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to tailor communication style to different stakeholders
• Essential for remote working- You will need access to a fast and reliable internet connection of at least 6mb down and 1mb upload. We recommend you use speedtest.net to check'
  
  

If you require a reasonable adjustment to the application/selection process to enable you to demonstrate your ability to perform the job requirements please include this at the foot of your covering letter. This will help us to understand any modifications we may need to make to support you throughout our selection process.

Benefits

In return for everything you can bring, we can offer you an exciting role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with plenty of career opportunities.

Here are a couple of the things that make Twinkl a great place to be:

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before the process
• Diversity, inclusion and belonging - our Employee Network Program includes working groups for LGBTQ+, People of Colour, Disabilities (visible and invisible), Women in Tech and Working Parents.
• From day 1 - Westfield Health, 33 annual leave days per year plus an additional day after two years service cap at 38, flexible working policy with opportunities to work from home and Twinkl subscription
• Seasonal events
• Referral scheme
• cervical and prostate screening
• Company sick pay is after 3 months of service
• After probation - cycle to work scheme
• Long term service reward - Life insurance, enhanced pension contribution, enhanced maternity pay, enhanced adoption pay and enhanced paternity pay.