Join our youth panel

At Hopscotch we create education programmes for children and young people across the UK. We make education resources, run competitions and events, and produce digital content for teachers to use with students.

We need to make sure everything we create is innovative, engaging and relevant to young people: that’s why our youth panel is so important to us.

Our youth panel:

• Push us to create better resources for young people

• Develop their own skills through collaborating with peers and learning from the Hopscotch team

Panel membership lasts one year, and, in that time, members will get involved in a range of activities with different benefits. Membership will begin with a virtual introductory session to find out more about the panel.

Activity

• Receive regular email updates where key topics and questions will be sent to panel members to respond to

• Share feedback on topics we need in-depth insights on, e.g. via a focus group, telephone/video call or written testimonial

Benefit

• Have access to training sessions with Hopscotch staff on topics such as running social media campaigns, building a website and giving feedback. Plus CV and career planning support

• Hourly payment of at least the UK Living Wage

By joining the panel, you will have the opportunity to influence the support young people receive in school/college on key topics, all whilst gaining skills and experience to boost your CV:

• Got a topic you’re passionate about? From sustainability to empowering girls to do sport, you can make a difference to the support and resources teachers offer their students

• Looking to boost your transferable skills? You’ll develop your communication, collaboration, time management and creativity skills through working with Hopscotch staff and peers

• Considering a career in marketing? Find out about how we promote our programmes to educators, young people and families using a range of comms channels

• Not sure about your next step? Get inspired by meeting the Hopscotch team and finding out about our career paths, from the Founders to people who have joined us as their first job, plus attend training sessions with our staff to broaden your experiences of the workplace

• Want to get noticed? You’ll get the opportunity to author a blog for our website that we’ll share through our social channels, we’ll connect with you on LinkedIn and through interacting with our content you can expand your network, and at the end of the year we’ll endorse relevant skills on your LinkedIn profile

We are looking for members who:

• Are aged 16-25

• Currently live in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland

Panel members need to be…

• Enthusiastic about working in a team

• Open to sharing their own experiences

• Interested in learning more about education and marketing

• Organised and able to manage their time on tasks to meet deadlines

We want to meet a range of young people, including those who have experience of:

• Being on an apprenticeship or training programme

• Going to university

• Taking A-levels

• Changing path and retraining

• Unemployment

• The care system

• Moving to the UK as a teenager or young adult

• Aiming for a career where people like them are under-represented

• Receiving additional learning support at school or attending alternative provision

• Lots more!

You can download the role description here or below.

Applications are now open to join the Hopscotch Youth Panel. To apply you need to do two things:

1. Share some information about you – what are you doing currently, what are your interests and what unique perspective could you bring to the panel?

2. Share with us the most useful or inspirational learning experience you’ve had and why it was memorable. This could be a school lesson that you really enjoyed and made you want to study a particular subject, or a workshop, training session or work experience that helped you. It could even be a person who has motivated you

You can choose any format to share your application, as long as it can be emailed to us. For example you could:

• Write a description (max. 1 page A4)

• Record a voice note (max. 3 mins)

• Design a presentation (max. 3 slides)

• Create a film (max. 3 mins)

Email your applications to Lara at info@hopscotchconsulting.co.uk

We will shortlist potential members to have a phone conversation with, which will cover why you want to join the panel, what your areas of interest are and a discussion around your availability and anything you would need from us to be able to participate fully in the panel.