Thank you for your interest in our charity and for taking the time to complete this application form.

The deadline for applications is 9am Tuesday 22nd July 2025. 

This is a long form with a lot of input required, we recommend completing it on a laptop or desktop computer, rather than a smartphone.

In addition to completing this form, you will need to submit a short video presentation via the MyInterview platform here, before 9am Tuesday 22nd July 2025.

Thank you very much. We look forward to reading your application.

If you require a different format of the application form, such as large print or Word format, or if you would like to discuss any specific requirements, please get in touch with us at jobs@intouniversity.org or call 020 7243 0242 and ask to speak to a member of the HR Team.

Please note that only those applicants who meet the eligibility criteria below will be considered for our Graduate Scheme. If you have extenuating circumstances then please email jobs@intouniversity.org as soon as possible so that we can confirm whether or not you will be eligible.

Our eligibility criteria are as follows:

-You have completed - or are predicted to complete - an undergraduate degree to a 2.2 or higher.

-You have achieved a grade C/level 4 or higher in GCSE Maths and English, or achieved National 5s/Standard Grade at Credit level (grades 1-2) in Maths and English (or equivalent).

-You have some previous experience (voluntary or paid) of working with children or young people.

-You have the right to work in the UK (please note that as a charity we do not have the capacity to sponsor work visas).

We want the absolute best people to work for IntoUniversity and in order to do this, we want to recruit from the widest talent pool possible. As part of our commitment to making our recruitment processes more inclusive, we offer access to a range of outreach sessions for potential applicants from groups who are currently under-represented in IntoUniversity’s staff team. To find out more please see our website here.

For safeguarding purposes, we need to have a full record of your education and employment history since leaving school. Please ensure that you provide accurate dates and account for any gaps of more than two months when you were not in employment or education, e.g. let us know that you were travelling, job searching etc. Please note that we will check the dates of your education and employment history since leaving school and if you provide an incomplete record this may result in you not being shortlisted.

Please include all relevant voluntary and paid roles working with children and young people in this section since it is important that we have a full record. Please enter roles not involving work with children and young people in the 'Other Experience' section below.

We require a full work history since you finished school. Please enter roles involving working with young people in the 'Experience Working With Young People' section above. Please include all other voluntary and paid roles in this section since it is important that we have a full record of your education and employment history.

Please explain here any periods of more than two months not in employment, doing voluntary work or studying. Failure to provide this information may result in you not being shortlisted. Please note that you do not need to include school/university holidays.

Please tell us why you want to join our Graduate Scheme and how you could meet the requirements of the role. Please demonstrate the skills, aptitude, experience and knowledge you can offer, showing how they relate to the job description. This could include voluntary work, lived experience, leisure interests and any other attributes or activities which you consider relevant to the position.

This is your opportunity to explain to us how you fulfil the requirements of the post.

Please answer this in no more than 500 words.

IntoUniversity is a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Disability Confident is a government scheme which encourages employers to think differently about disability and to take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. You can read more about the Disability Confident scheme here.

One of the commitments that we make is to guarantee to progress any candidate who self-identifies as disabled to the next stage of our recruitment process (provided that they meet the minimum criteria for the job they’re applying for). If you would like to declare a disability so that we can ensure that you're progressed to the next stage, please provide details below. This information will be available to our shortlisting team.

Please note that this is entirely optional and you may prefer not to disclose a disability.

IntoUniversity is committed to ensuring everyone has the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background. Research conducted by the Sutton Trust shows that someone’s socio-economic background (the social and economic circumstances a person grew up in, including the social class and financial resources of their family, and the type of school they attended) can sometimes disadvantage them in the workplace.

We want to understand more about this issue in our recruitment process, so that we can remove any barriers, open up opportunities within our organisation and ensure we are making full use of the talent available.

The answers to the questions below will help us to:
1) Assess how representative our pool of candidates is at the various stages of our recruitment process.
2) Contextualise your education, experience, and career to date, in order to make sure that our recruitment decisions are as fair and balanced as possible.

We won’t use the information you provide for any other reason.

These answers are optional, and if you would prefer not to answer some or all of these questions then please select ‘prefer not to say’.

To help us ensure that our recruitment procedures operate in such a way as to provide genuine equality of opportunity, it would be helpful if you would assist this process by completing the questions below.

The purpose of collecting this data is so that we can:

- analyse the correlation between diversity characteristics and outcomes at each stage of the selection process;

- act on these findings to improve equality of opportunity;

- evaluate the data on an ongoing basis to measure the success of our actions.

These questions are entirely optional and this information will not be available to members of the selection panel. You’ll be able to answer ‘I prefer not to say’ to any of the questions or skip any of the questions.