OurKidsCode Project Administrator 

Part-time (18.5hours/week)

Context:

National Parents Council Primary (NPC) is the representative organisation for parents of children in primary or early education.  National Parents Council’s primary role is to support parents to become effective partners in their children’s education.  NPC wants to see an Ireland where ‘every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential’.  NPC supports parents in their children’s education both at home and school.

OurKidsCode

OurKidsCode is a ‘Science Foundation Ireland Discover’ supported project delivered by the School of Computer Science & Statistics at Trinity College Dublin in partnership with the National Parents Council Primary (NPC). It aims to support parents/guardians who wish to engage their primary-school children's interest and activity in computing through the provision of family creative-coding workshops. The workshops will be delivered by the National Parents Council Primary (NPC) to children and parents of children in primary schools nationwide, with the ultimate goal being to support sustained community-based parent/children coding clubs across the country.

NPC now wishes to recruit a Project Administrator who will advance the work of OurKidsCode (see job description).

The Project Administrator will provide coordination and administrative support for the roll-out of family creative-coding workshops to parents and children nationwide in 2021/22. The Project Administrator will ensure that parents and children in primary schools get access to the OurKidsCode coding workshops across the country. 

The salary for this role is €18,000 per annum

Hours: 18.5 hours a week (flexibility is required: some weekend and evening work may be a feature of this employment)

Place of work: NPC Offices, Marlborough Court, Marlborough St., Dublin 1, D01 XP86

The contract is until December 31st, 2022 with an initial probationary period of nine months.

Applications should be in the form of a letter of application and CV (max 2 pages), and be emailed to ccross@npc.ie with “Project Administrator” in the subject line or by post marked Confidential to Catherine Cross, Services Manager, National Parents Council Primary, 12 Marlborough Court, Marlborough St., Dublin 1, D01 XP86 by: close of business September 13th, 2021.

Interviews for those who are shortlisted will be held the week beginning September 20th , 2021, in the National Parents Council Primary office.

National Parents Council Primary is an equal opportunities employer