City Year Mentor 2025/2026

City Year UK wants to hear from you!

We’re looking for the next generation of changemakers who want to become inspirational role models, mentors and tutors to children who need it the most. 

Join our year-long leadership development programme and contribute to tackling educational inequality, from August 2025 - July 2026. You could really make a difference to children’s lives, while accelerating your own career prospects and gaining the confidence to lead from the front; it’s your chance to #BeTheChange.

We’re currently recruiting for our London, Birmingham and the Black Country, and Greater Manchester volunteering programmes, for full and part-time school hours during term time. Read on for more information on how you can get involved.

In School...

*Building meaningful and trusting relationships with targeted pupils to support them in school

*1-to-1 mentoring, working with a designated list of pupils who require more intensive support (when required), delivering a range of interventions in English and maths using content provided by the school

*Supporting teachers in the classroom by working with small groups of pupils

*Being an example of good behaviour for all children at all times

*Helping to encourage attendance and punctuality in all pupils

*Encouraging library use, supervising homework or study clubs, supervising fun before-school activities for the whole school (such as breakfast clubs), to get pupils energised and ready for school

*Running a range of extra curricular clubs, e.g sports, music, homework, debating etc to help build children’s confidence

*Measuring the impact of your interventions on your focus list students through access to student data

*Supporting the school with break and lunch duties, creating displays, coordinating of special events and trips, sorting or marking of books or materials, and entering valuable pupil data

*Planning special projects to engage parents and the local community

And out of school…

*Developing your career with training, coaching and career workshops

*Attending external events with our business partners and influential figures

*Appearing at recruitment events, in order to inspire and tell prospective volunteers all about what we do and how it all works

*Taking part in volunteering days with our funders

*Shadowing our staff and business partners while at work

*Supporting with the planning and delivery of social action projects in the local community

*Connecting with a mentor for your own professional development

Interviews will be scheduled from November for successful candidates. Basic Training Academy will commence late August 2025 (exact date TBC) before starting in school in the first week of September 2025.

Please email recruitment@cityyear.org.uk if you have any questions or need further information.